Category Archives: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.

Lucky 13 paper dance!

Posted on 9/19/2012 by aram

Having recently rediscovered arxiv.org/submit, I thought I’d mention a few papers to come out of team UW. Two particularly exciting single-author papers are from students here. Kamil Michnicki has developed a 3-d stabilizer code on qubits with an energy barrier … Continue reading →

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The Quantum Interregnum Continues

Posted on 6/26/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

The College of Cardinals continues to meet in conclave.   But alas after a week there is only….black smoke.

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Quantum Interregnum!

Posted on 6/18/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

The Vicar of Randomization hereby informs the readers of this blog that the Quantum Pontiff Dave Bacon XLII has decohered.  He further informs the readers of this blog that the entire Quantum Pontiff blog is in Justitium and hopes that … Continue reading →

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Goodnight CSE

Posted on 6/17/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

good night room goodnight nom de plume goodnight notebooks goodnight tests goodnight grants goodnight Mike and goodnight Ike goodnight publish and goodnight perish goodnight whiteboard goodnight star, goodnight air goodnight noises everywhere.

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Oh the Places I’ve Been!

Posted on 6/15/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

In 1996 I participated in Caltech‘s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program under the direction of two postdocs, Nicolas Cerf and Chris Adami (their big boss now works the halls of D.C.) The research project I worked on was to try … 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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The Demiurge’s Bytestream

Posted on 12/1/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

It’s times like these that I wished I’d kept my old Dell desktop around (hell I wish I’d kept my TRS-80 CoCo and my Apple IIGS!) Won because I know my children’s literature

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Toronto CIFAR Meeting

Posted on 11/20/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

My last trip to Canada for a CIFAR conference was….interesting.  This time I’m in Toronto for the quantum computing CIFAR meeting and I’m happy to report that the meeting is full of people who mostly believe quantum theory and who … Continue reading →

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