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qBell Labs Press Release

Imagining the future from the past:

An amazingly simple device, capable of performing efficiently nearly all the function of an ordinary quantum circuit, was demonstrated for the first time yesterday at qBell Laborities where it was invented.
Known as the quantum Transistor, the device works on an entirely new physical principle discovered by the Laboratories in the course of fundamental research into the properties of strongly interacting quantum systems. Although the device is still in laboratory stage, qBell scientists and engineers expect it may have far-reaching significant in quantum computing and quantum communication…

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Handwriting to LaTeX?

Anyone tried out MoboMath?

MoboMath lets you work with math on a computer exactly as you learned it — by writing it. MoboMath translates your handwritten math input into a formatted layout that can be used in Microsoft Word, Maple, and many other popular applications.
Instead of struggling with keyboard and palette input, you can create and edit math expressions for technical documents, calculations, presentations, and web pages in your own handwriting. It’s fast, simple, and intuitive.
Using a tablet PC or an external tablet, just write your expressions as you normally would with your tablet’s pen. Then convert them to a formatted math layout with a single tap and copy or drag them into your documents or worksheets.

Don’t have a tablet right now or I’d test it out.

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Recent Progress in Quantum Algorithms

Shameless self-promotion: an article I wrote with Wim van Dam, “Recent Progress on Quantum Algorithms” has appeared in the Communications of the ACM. Indeed if you have a copy of the magazine you can check out an artists rendition of a quantum computer/quantum algorithm on the cover. Clearly quantum computing is the new string theory: so abstract that it must be represented by beautiful, yet incomprehensible, figures. Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing. (The article was actually written quite a bit back, so “recent” is a bit off. If we had to write it today I’m guessing we would include the quantum algorithm for linear equations as well as the quantum Metropolis algorithm.)

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NEC Summer Quantum Interns

Martin passes along information that the quantum group at NEC labs has openings for summer interns:

I wanted to let you know that the quantum group at NEC Labs America has openings for 2010 summer internships. If some of your students are interested, please refer them to
http://www.nec-labs.com/careers/internship.php
A typical duration of a summer internship is three months (end of May-end of August in most cases, but this is quite flexible). The compensation will be competitive with other industrial internships. We will start looking at resumes around February 15.

If you are interested in quantum algorithms or quantum error correcting codes, this is an incredible opportunity.