{"id":2046,"date":"2008-09-01T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2008-09-01T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T22:16:09","slug":"national-medal-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/09\/01\/national-medal-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"National Medal of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/pml\/div688\/\">Wineland<\/a>, laser cooling god and ion trap quantum computer builder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/pml\/div688\/\">extraordinaire<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/news\/2008\/aug\/27\/boulder-physicist-awarded-national-medal-of\/\">been awarded<\/a> the National Medal of Science.  Much awesomeness.<br \/>\nAlso winning the medal this year is a name familiar to computer scientists and engineers worldwide, or simply who have spent time at USC: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_J._Viterbi\">Andrew Viterbi<\/a>, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm and cofounder of Qualcom, among other notable achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Wineland, laser cooling god and ion trap quantum computer builder extraordinaire, has been awarded the National Medal of Science. Much awesomeness. Also winning the medal this year is a name familiar to computer scientists and engineers worldwide, or simply who have spent time at USC: Andrew Viterbi, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm and cofounder &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/09\/01\/national-medal-of-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Medal of Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[53,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-quantum-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","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=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}