{"id":2950,"date":"2008-09-19T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T10:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/19\/fear-the-quantum-turtle\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T10:12:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T10:12:47","slug":"fear-the-quantum-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/19\/fear-the-quantum-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear the (Quantum) Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pontiff <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pontiff\/2008\/09\/university_of_maryland_joint_i.php\">beat me to it<\/a>, but my Ph.D. alma mater has scored a $12.5 million grant from the NSF to fund the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jqi.umd.edu\/\">Joint Quantum Institute<\/a> as a Physics Frontier Center for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsdesk.umd.edu\/scitech\/release.cfm?ArticleID=1740\">development of quantum technology<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Physics Frontier Center (PFC) award, effective September 1, will fund 17 graduate students, seven postdoctoral scientists and seven undergraduates as well as an extensive and highly cross-disciplinary research program under the general title  Processing Quantum Coherence.  Ultimately the work may lead to development of a computer that exploits the strange phenomena of quantum mechanics to do certain tasks, such as huge database searches and unbreakable data encryption, exponentially faster than even the best conventional computers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is great news, not just because it involves a lot of people I used to work with. OK, it&#8217;s mostly because it involves a lot of people I used to work with, but they happen to be outstanding scientists doing amazing work at NIST and at UMD, and it&#8217;s great to see them recognized. And the stuff they&#8217;re doing is every bit as cool as anything happening at CERN, and cheaper, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pontiff beat me to it, but my Ph.D. alma mater has scored a $12.5 million grant from the NSF to fund the Joint Quantum Institute as a Physics Frontier Center for the development of quantum technology: The Physics Frontier Center (PFC) award, effective September 1, will fund 17 graduate students, seven postdoctoral scientists and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/19\/fear-the-quantum-turtle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fear the (Quantum) Turtle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,7,23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-physics","category-quantum_optics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}