{"id":1117,"date":"2005-11-03T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T17:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2005-11-03T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T17:08:28","slug":"computationon-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/11\/03\/computationon-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Computation&#8230;.On the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/3quarksdaily.blogs.com\/3quarksdaily\/2005\/11\/the_100000_edge.html\">Three Quark&#8217;s Daily<\/a> (Update: and also at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.geomblog.org\/2005\/11\/edge-of-computation-prize.html\">Geomblog<\/a>, which I somehow missed reading, but which has some great comments about quantum information science): The Edge (which you either love or hate) has announced a $100,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/3rd_culture\/prize05\/prize05_index.html\">prize<\/a> in computation science   The list of nominations for the first prize was announced at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.festivalscienza.it\/site\/home.html\">Festival della Scienza<\/a> in Genoa on Novermber 1st.<br \/>\nThe list of those nominated is a pretty interesting.  From quantum computing land, those nominated are<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCHARLES H. BENNETT, for his many ongoing contributions to the physics of information, including reversible computation, quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation, and quantum communication theory.<br \/>\nDAVID DEUTSCH, for the enormous potential of quantum computing in studying the architecture of the brain.<br \/>\nSETH LLOYD, for turning quantum computers from dream into device.<br \/>\nPETER SHOR, for his discovery of revolutionary algorithms for quantum computation, which will hasten the day when this fundamentally new mode of computation becomes practicable.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That nomination for David Deutsch seems a bit strange to me: it sounds like it was written for Roger Penrose!  I would have nominated David Deutsch for fundamental work developing the idea of a quantum computer, realizing that quantum computers could outperform classical computers, and for fundamental insights connecting physics to the foundations of computer science. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Three Quark&#8217;s Daily (Update: and also at Geomblog, which I somehow missed reading, but which has some great comments about quantum information science): The Edge (which you either love or hate) has announced a $100,000 prize in computation science The list of nominations for the first prize was announced at Festival della Scienza in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/11\/03\/computationon-the-edge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Computation&#8230;.On the Edge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}