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A shameless Kickstarter campaign plug. Unless academic software is an ongoing project, bought out by a company or handed over to an organization like the Apache foundation, it can quickly vanish in...
By now I am pretty used to egregiously misleading summarization of physics research in popular science outlets, sometimes flamed by the researchers themselves. Also self-aggrandized, ignorant paper...
The proliferation of social networks seems unstoppable now. Even the big ones you can no longer count on one hand: Facebook, LinkedIn, GooglePlus, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Snapchat - ...
Qubit spin states in diamond defects don't last forever, but they can last outstandingly long even at room temperature (measured in microseconds which is a long time when it comes to computing). So...
Are We There Yet? That's the name of the talk that Daniel Lidar recently gave at Google (h/t Sole Warda who posted this in a previous comment). Spoiler alert, I will summarize some of the most inte...
While I am working on my next blog post, this excellent update on the state of fusion research from the Polywell Blog author John Smith shouldn't go unnoticed. He makes a strong case that the US ...
Usually, I like to start a new year on an upbeat note, but this time I just cannot find the right fit. I was considering whether to revisit technology that can clean water - lauding the effort of t...
Recently a friend of mine observed in an email discussion "I must admit I find it a little difficult to keep up with the various definitions of quantum computing." A healthy sign for an enlightened...
In light of the recent news that John Martinis is joining Google, it is worthwhile to check out this Google talk from last year: It is an hour long talk but very informative. John Martinis does an ...
As school starts, I should find my way back to a regular blogging schedule. I usually drive my kids to German Saturday school and then pass the time at a nearby Starbucks updating this blog....
A tried and tested success formula for lazy journalism is the build-up and tear-down pattern. The hype comes before the fall. In the context of information technology, Gartner copyrighted the aptly...
It has been my long held belief that science media needs an additional corrective in the form of blogs, similar to the development we've seen in the political sphere. Now it seems the news that th...
Unlike the US, tax returns in Canada are due by the end of April, but because of the Heartbleed bug, Revenue Canada had to take down electronic filing for a while, so the deadline has been extended...
Are You a BDeliever? Science and religion have a difficult relationship, and sometimes they combine in the most obscure manner, such as when Scientology was conceived. The latter seems to have los...
Cosmology is quintessential popular science, but I always regarded it as the most dismal field of physics because there is no avenue for experiments to keep run-away speculations at bay. It's like ...
Last year I tried to establish a blog tradition of starting the new year with a hopeful science news item, something that shows enormous technological potential to change the world for the better. ...
