{"id":1127,"date":"2005-11-14T18:37:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T01:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2005-11-14T18:37:06","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T01:37:06","slug":"edgy-deutsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/11\/14\/edgy-deutsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgy Deutsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.geomblog.org\/2005\/11\/edge-of-computation-prize.html\">Geomblog<\/a>, I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daviddeutsch.org.uk\/\">David Deutsch<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/3rd_culture\/prize05\/prize05_index.html\">has won<\/a> the 2005 $100,000 Edge of Computation Science Prize (see the post <a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1117\">here<\/a>.)  Here is the award citation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAlthough the general idea of a quantum computer had been proposed earlier by Richard Feynman, in 1985 David Deutsch wrote the key paper which proposed the idea of a quantum computer and initiated the study of how to make one. Since then he has continued to be a pioneer and a leader in a rapidly growing field that is now called quantum information science.<br \/>\nPresently, small quantum computers are operating in laboratories around the world, and the race is on to find a scalable implementation that, if successful, will revolutionize the technologies of computation and communications. It is fair to say that no one deserves recognition for the growing success of this field more than Deutsch, for his ongoing work as well as for his founding paper. Among his key contributions in the last ten years are a paper with Ekert and Jozsa on quantum logic gates, and a proof of universality in quantum computation, with Barenco and Ekert (both in 1995).<br \/>\nOne reason to nominate Deutsch for this prize is that he has always aimed to expand our understanding of the notion of computation in the context of the deepest questions in the foundations of mathematics and physics. Thus, his pioneering work in 1985 was motivated by interest in the Church-Turing thesis. Much of his recent work is motivated by his interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics, as we see from his 1997 book.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congrats to David Deutsch!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Geomblog, I see that David Deutsch has won the 2005 $100,000 Edge of Computation Science Prize (see the post here.) Here is the award citation: Although the general idea of a quantum computer had been proposed earlier by Richard Feynman, in 1985 David Deutsch wrote the key paper which proposed the idea of a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/11\/14\/edgy-deutsch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Edgy Deutsch&#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-1127","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\/1127","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=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}