Author Archives: Pontifex Praeteritorum

My Favorite D-Wave Future

Posted on 6/1/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

As many of you know, D-Wave has a nice paper out about some experiments on one of their eight qubit systems. In addition they have sold one of their systems to the military industrial complex, a.k.a. Lockheed Martin. One of … Continue reading →

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Hoisted From the Comments: Quantum Marriage

Posted on 5/27/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Charlie Bennett comments about an novel use of quantum entanglement: Tracy Staedter describes a quantum wedding apparatus built by conceptual artist Jonathon Keats, which briefly entangles two people by illuminating them with entangled photons. Staedter quotes Keats as saying the … Continue reading →

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dabacon.job = “Software Engineer”;

Posted on 5/24/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Some news for the remaining five readers of this blog (hi mom!) After over a decade of time practicing the fine art of quantum computing theorizing, I will be leaving my position in the ivory (okay, you caught me, really … Continue reading →

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QSpeak Announcements for Week Ending 5/20/2011

Posted on 5/20/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

AFOSR Funding Opportunity A funding opportunity from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Announcement here. News article described in announcement here.

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QSpeak Announcements for Week Ending 5/13/2011

Posted on 5/13/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

QKD Summer School July 25-29, 2011 We’d like to inform you about an innovative, five-day program this July exploring both theoretical and experimental approaches to quantum communication and quantum cryptography. Aimed at graduate students and young postdoctoral fellows from around … Continue reading →

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Time After Time

Posted on 5/2/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Ole Peters was a postdoc at the Santa Fe Institute during the time I was also a postdoc there. In addition to being a world class windsurfer, Ole likes to think about critical phenomena and stochastic processes. And in the … Continue reading →

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QSpeak Announcements for Week Ending 4/15/2011

Posted on 4/15/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Two Research Posts at Quantum Photonics Laboratory at Heriot-Watt University Two Research or Senior Research Associate Posts Spectroscopy and quantum optics of tunable solid-state quantum emitters Closing date: 14 May 2011, but applications will continue to be accepted until the … Continue reading →

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Radio Free Albemuth Trailer

Posted on 4/12/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Radio Free Albemuth Trailer from Elizabeth Karr on Vimeo. (I wouldn’t say RFA is Philip K. Dick’s most controversial novel. VALIS would get my vote for that title.)

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