The Quantum Pontiff

Microsoft’s Surface, a table PC. Ever closer to my dream of blackboards/whiteboards everywhere!

Looking over the AMO/Condensed Matter job rumor mill this moring I was hoping to see that the luck of theoretical quantum computing folk in U.S. physics departments has improved, but alas! Anyone willing to rumor monger and lighten my mood by revealing a change in attitude? And, since it was just Memorial Day here in [...]

So, how is technology going to change the academic environment? (Scriptovia.com started by a University of Washington undergrad.)

Last week I stumbled upon a new quantum computing book, Quantum Computing for Computer Architects by Tzvetan S. Metodi and Frederic T. Chong (don’t even try to say that first name outloud, you might break your mouth! ) Did you know that quantum computing papers have appeared in the top computer architecture conferences (see ISCA [...]

The latest newsletter for the APS topical group on Quantum Information, Concepts and Computation is now available here. But you knew that already because your a member, right?

In an email from the QIC editor: Dear QIC authors, referees, editors, and readers, As you may have noticed, in the latest (for 2005) calculation, QIC has an ISI impact factor 3.584 (as a comparison: PRA scores 2.997), while most journals counted by the ISI have an impact factor below 1. QIC is ranked 14th [...]

Very cool. Frolix-8, a blog which runs Which Philip K. Dick story are we in today articles.

10000 100000! An old man. If you believe in signs appearing the sky you might be interested to know that thirty two years ago today there was a Lunar eclipse. So if you think I’m a little crazy (okay a lot crazy) then you can consitently incorporate that observation with the fact that I was [...]

Over the past two days I’ve been trying to dig my way out of my inbox, submit reviews that I’ve been putting off, and even attempting to clean my office. I’m now down to 40 emails from a starting total of over 2500. Now that’s a great feeling! And look how much stronger I am [...]

Cool, Google is opening R&D research space in Fremont, a neighborhood just down the hill from our house. If I were young and hip and wanting to live in a great area and work for a crazy company, I’d certainly want to be in those offices! Hey Google: interested in quantum computing?

I hear it is warm in Southern California in winter. Registration for QEC 07, organized by Daniel Lidar, Todd Brun, and Paolo Zanardi, is now open: The University of Southern California’s Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology (CQIST) will be hosting the First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction during the week of Dec. [...]

Quantum error correction is a beastly miracle: an astounding discovery which lets us dream of a future quantum computer but which quickly turns into a nightmare when we think of actually implementing it in the lab. Motivated in part by this, a large number of people have been thinking about ways to considerably simplify the [...]