{"id":7162,"date":"2013-06-24T19:35:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T02:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2013-06-24T19:35:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T02:35:03","slug":"toffoli-gate-honored-on-namesakes-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2013\/06\/24\/toffoli-gate-honored-on-namesakes-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Birthdays –Toffoli gate honored on namesake's 70'th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"P1030110a\"<\/a>Tommaso Toffoli’s 3-input 3-output logic gate, central to the theory of reversible and quantum computing, recently featured on a custom cake made for his 70’th birthday.
\nNowadays scientists’ birthday celebrations often take the form of informal mini-conferences, festschrifts without the schrift.\u00a0 I have had the honor of attending several this year, including ones for John Preskill’s<\/a> and Wojciech Zurek’s<\/a> 60’th birthdays and a joint 80’th<\/strong> birthday conference for Myriam Sarachik and Daniel Greenberger,<\/a>\u00a0 both physics professors at City College of New York.\u00a0 At that party I learned that Greenberger and Sarachick have known each other since high school.\u00a0 Neither has any immediate plans for retirement.
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Tommaso Toffoli’s 3-input 3-output logic gate, central to the theory of reversible and quantum computing, recently featured on a custom cake made for his 70’th birthday. Nowadays scientists’ birthday celebrations often take the form of informal mini-conferences, festschrifts without the schrift.\u00a0 I have had the honor of attending several this year, including ones for John … <\/p>\n

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