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The Royal Institutuion I attended the British Learning Association's annual conference today at the Royal Institution, as you may guess from the title, an establishment in central London with a venerable scientific history. It is the venue for the Christmas Lectures.
Among other things, I learned that Michel Freedman of Microsoft Research in Redmond and physicist Alexei Kitaev of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have teamed up and are working on a Topological Quantum nonAbelian Anyon Compter. Woah, Dude. This is a computer that can make rational decisions and process at the speed of the human brain. One of the presenters used a great quote from Steve Jobbs, "computers are bicycles for the mind". |