{"id":6633,"date":"2012-10-20T21:23:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T04:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2012-10-20T21:23:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T04:23:42","slug":"sean-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2012\/10\/20\/sean-barrett\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/barrett1.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6647\" title=\"barrett1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/barrett1.jpeg?resize=189%2C255&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI am very sad to learn that Sean Barrett of Imperial College London, who made important contributions to fault tolerance and optical quantum computing, among other areas, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-20017822\">tragically killed in a traffic accident<\/a> in Perth on Friday. He was just 36 years old.<br \/>\nSean had a gift for working at the boundary where theory meets experiment, and many of his theoretical contributions over the past decade have led to experimental progress. Sean&#8217;s presence was felt especially strongly here in Australia, where he spent several years as a researcher. He was not only a valued member of our research community but was also a personal friend to many of us, and he will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very sad to learn that Sean Barrett of Imperial College London, who made important contributions to fault tolerance and optical quantum computing, among other areas, was tragically killed in a traffic accident in Perth on Friday. He was just 36 years old. Sean had a gift for working at the boundary where theory &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2012\/10\/20\/sean-barrett\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sean Barrett&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}