Posted in BCI, links, web on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via Brain Waves
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Click on the link to watch a very inspirational 20 minute video about the research and wider goals of the Institute. Ed Boyen is featured with his Opto-genetic technology. I saw him talk at the Singularity Summit earlier this year. Really interesting stuff. Not only is [...]
Posted in cool physics, expt vs theory showdown, learnin' stuff, links, quantum computing, web on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My pick of interesting recent ArXiv papers…
So much to read, so little time!
Robust Entanglement in Anti-ferromagnetic Heisenberg Chains by Single-spin Optimal Control
Quantum System Identification: Hamiltonian Estimation using Spectral and Bayesian Analysis
Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm Approach to Determine Pulse Sequences in NMR
Efficient creation of multipartite entanglement in flux qubits
Spin Systems and Computational Complexity
Algorithmic Technique for Decomposing Unitary [...]
Posted in RSFQ, learnin' stuff, links, quantum computing, superconductors on October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I suspect this may be redundant information as my readership is probably entirely contained in the superset of D-Wave’s blog readership, but… For anyone who didn’t see it, there is a series of new posts over at Geordie’s blog about D-Wave’s technology, aims, results, fabrication and mostly anything else you could wish to know about [...]
Posted in film / tv / music, fun and games, humour, links on October 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Via Pharyngula:
I was thinking after the LHC rap that a QC rap video would be cool to do, but I don’t think anything I could do could possibly match the standards set by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO):
I also now want a giant gold medallion with [...]
Posted in links, quantum computing on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So to get me out of the futurist frame of mind and back into the Quantum Physics frame of mind, here are some things to read today:
An introduction to measurement based quantum computing:
Measurement-based quantum computation
Preprint of the latest offering from Martinis’ group showing tomography of two entangled gates after performing various operations:
Quantum Process Tomography of [...]
Posted in expt vs theory showdown, links, quantum spookiness, superconductors on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Very cool…another step towards demonstrating that Josephson phase/flux systems can be treated as macroscopic coherent quantum objects.
Violation of Bell’s inequality in Josephson phase qubits
I was wondering if you could demonstrate this the other day!
From Science Daily:
The measurement of a Bell violation in a superconducting circuit was recently stated to be the next primary challenge for [...]
Posted in links, web on August 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Physics and Cake now has a twitter feed:
check out @physicsandcake on Twitter!
I won’t be neglecting the blog, but twitter seems more useful for posting links as you find them. It stops them from clogging up my bookmarks folder!
Posted in conferences, learnin' stuff, links, transhumanism on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everything’s been so busy this past week, I’ve got a whole load of links and they’re all completely disorganised, but here are a few just so I a get them off the backlog pile:
A really interesting company I learnt about recently:
Evolved Machines
Upcoming Events
World Future Society conference 8-10 July 2010, Massachusetts
World Future 2010
SENS4 Conference in Cambridge, [...]
Posted in links on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Singularity University reported in the Financial Times:
‘South Park meets Harvard Business School’
Posted in controversial..., learnin' stuff, links, outreach, web on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As much as I admire some of the traditonal values of Oxbridge/Ivy league style University education, I can’t help but love the idea of this new movement…
Via Academic Earth:
Who needs Harvard? How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education
Who’d have thought education and anarchy would join forces?
I’m going to have to put [...]
