{"id":4090,"date":"2010-07-18T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2010-07-18T08:12:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T15:12:28","slug":"australia-research-council-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/07\/18\/australia-research-council-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Research Council Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking way over that big pond called the Pacific (50 percent bigger than the Atlantic, take that stogy East Coasters) I see that the Australian Research Council has funded two (count&#8217;em two!) big quantum centers (the OED tells me that the spelling is &#8220;center&#8221; and not &#8220;centre&#8221;&#8212;if you want to be historically correct for this definition of the word.\u00a0  I mean, come on upside down people: why follow Chaucer, when you could follow <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Humphrey_Prideaux\">Humphrey Prideaux<\/a>?\u00a0 Break the bonds of the Queen!)\u00a0 The funded centers are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arc.gov.au\/ncgp\/ce\/engineered_quantum_systems.htm\">ARC  Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum  Systems<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arc.gov.au\/ncgp\/ce\/quantum_communication.htm\">ARC  Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation  and Communication  Technology<\/a>.\u00a0 Both were funded at $24.5 million Australian for five years.\u00a0 Congrats to the teams involved!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arc.gov.au\/ncgp\/ce\/quantum_communication.htm\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking way over that big pond called the Pacific (50 percent bigger than the Atlantic, take that stogy East Coasters) I see that the Australian Research Council has funded two (count&#8217;em two!) big quantum centers (the OED tells me that the spelling is &#8220;center&#8221; and not &#8220;centre&#8221;&#8212;if you want to be historically correct for this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/07\/18\/australia-research-council-centers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australia Research Council Centers&#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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/4090","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=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}