Thursday, September 2, 2010

REMINDER – Suzanne Gildert on Building large-scale quantum computers, Teleplace, September 4, 10am PST

UPDATED: VIDEO of Suzanne’s talk

Suzanne Gildert will give a talk in Teleplace on “Building large-scale quantum computers: Fundamentals, technology and applications” on September 4, 2010, at 10am PST (1pm EST, 6pm UK, 7pm CET). Those who already have Teleplace accounts for teleXLR8 can just ahow up at the talk. There are a limited number of seats available for others, please contact me if you wish to attend.


Suzanne is an excellent speaker and I am sure she will give a great talk. As she says in the abstract below, quantum computing is often over-dramatized by the popular press, and I look forward to hearing Suzanne’s explanations on how quantum computers work, how to build them, what they can do, what they cannot do, what they cannot do yet, and when. Suzanne’s blog “Physics and cake” is one of the best online references on quantum computing (and other imaginative technologies), at times highly technical but more often understandable and even entertaining. Suzanne’s company, D-Wave Systems, Inc. (see also the D-Wave blog), is pioneering the development of a new class of high-performance computing system designed to solve complex search and optimization problems, with an initial emphasis on synthetic intelligence and machine learning applications, by using a computational model known as adiabatic quantum computing (AQC).

In the picture above, Suzanne at the recent ASIM 2010 Conference, Advancing Substrate-Independent Minds, satellite to the Singularity Summit 2010, San Francisco, August 16-17th. Suzanne’s has been one of the most active participants in the ASIM 2010 Conference, and she has a nice writeup on “ASIM-2010 – not quite Singularity but close“. The picture, taken in the virtual conference room in Teleplace and with another view of the same virtual conference room in the background, is a nice reality cascade appropriate to the spooky image of quantum computing.

10 comments:

  1. Hello--
    I'd like to attend. I can't seem to find your email, though.
    Can you email me at mattgfx at gmail dot com?

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  2. Hello mattgfx,

    Done - you should have received an invitation at your gmail address. Please read the help info. I look fwd to seeing you at the talk.

    My email is myfirstname at gmail - it should be written here somewhere, and it should be easy to find by googling.

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  3. I'd like to attend. Can you email me at cafonso62 at gmail dot com?

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  4. @Cafonso - since you list Leonard Cohen as favorite music and the talk will be given by a Suzanne... of course you get an invitation!

    I just sent you the invitation by email, please read the help page at:
    http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/teleplace/help/

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  5. Hi, I would like to attend. Can you email me at mardukbp at gmail dot com?

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  6. @Marduk - I just sent you the invitation by email, please read the help page at:
    http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/teleplace/help/

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  7. I know its gettung close to the event time, any chance I too could get a seat at the event? Email me at ccroswhite_sanjose_2000 at yahoo dot com. Cheers.

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  8. Thanks to all participants! See next blog post for the video.

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  9. Videos here:

    http://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/2010/09/suzanne-gildert-on-quantum-computing-in.html

    http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/suzanne-gildert-on-quantum-computing-in-teleplace-september-4/

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