Clik here to view.
Beware global search and replace!
I’m old enough to remember when cutting and pasting were really done with scissors and glue (or Scotch tape). When I was a graduate student in the late 1970s, few physicists typed their own papers, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on in my mind?
I suppose most theoretical physicists who (like me) are comfortably past the age of 60 worry about their susceptibility to “crazy-old-guy syndrome.” (Sorry for the sexism, but all the victims of this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LIGO: Playing the long game, and winning big!
Wow. What a day! And what a story! Kip Thorne in 1972, around the time MTW was completed. It is hard for me to believe, but I have been on the Caltech faculty for nearly a third of a century. And when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Toward a Coherent US Government Strategy for QIS
In an upbeat recent post, Spiros reported some encouraging news about quantum information science from the US National Science and Technology Council. Today I’ll chime in with some further perspective...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here’s one way to get out of a black hole!
Two weeks ago I attended an exciting workshop at Stanford, organized by the It from Qubit collaboration, which I covered enthusiastically on Twitter. Many of the talks at the workshop provided fodder...
View ArticleA poem for Stephen Hawking
Everyone is talking About Stephen Hawking. My good friend Explained how time can end. And clued us in On how time can begin. Always droll, He spoke about a hole: “Now, wait a minute, Jack, A black hole...
View ArticleTo Feynman on his 100th birthday
The Feynman legend, pundits say Began in Queens – Far Rockaway. It’s there a boy would stop and think To fix a radio on the blink. He grew up as a curious guy Who showed his sister the night sky. He...
View ArticleA quantum podcast
A few months ago I sat down with Craig Cannon of Y Combinator for a discussion about quantum technology and other things. A lightly edited version was published this week on the Y Combinator blog. The...
View ArticleMy QIP 2019 After-Dinner Speech
Scientists who work on theoretical aspects of quantum computation and information look forward each year to the Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP), an annual event since 1998. This...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quantum Information Meets Quantum Matter: Now Published!
Two things you should know about me are: (1) I have unbounded admiration for scientists who can actually finish writing a book, and (2) I’m a firm believer that exciting progress can be ignited when...
View Article
