Speaker: Scott Clearwater
Date: Thursday, September 9, 2004
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Location: Orange Conference Room, Bldg 40
Goodies: Tea and Cookies Provided

Quantum Computing

This talk will give some insight into what quantum computation is and how it differs from classical computation. Scott will illustrate these differences with examples from cryptography, teleportation, and counterfactual computing.

About the Speaker:

Scott Clearwater received his PhD in physics from Stanford and then worked as a physicist at Los Alamos and Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Knowledge Systems Laboratory, where he worked on applying artificial intelligence techniques to accelerator control. He then went to the University of Pittsburgh to study applying artificial intelligence methods to SSC trigger studies.

Scott returned to the Bay Area as a consultant to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he did research on dynamics, mutli-agent systems, and market-based control algorithms. In his spare time he co-authored the first book on quantum computation. He has over sixty publications and two patents. He continues to consult on a variety of projects in industry, academia, and government.