[IP] Spookytechnology and Society * 4:15PM, Wed May 21, 2008 in Gates B03

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Subject: [EE CS Colloq] Spookytechnology and Society * 4:15PM, Wed May 21, 2008 in Gates B03

             Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium
                 4:15PM, Wednesday, May 21, 2008
        HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01
                   http://ee380.stanford.edu

Topic:    Spookytechnology and Society
          The progress and implications of quantum information
          science and technology

Speaker:  Charles Tahan
          Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

About the talk:

As a physicist, I will give a somewhat un-physics perspective on
quantum information science and technology, both via some of my
own scientific work, but mostly from the vantage of science and
technology studies. My own pet name for the field,
spookytechnology, provides a good starting point for the
discussion. We will touch on why the new quantum revolution is
for real (including some cool examples), what "new quantum
revolution" actually means, why it's more interesting than
nanotechnology, and how we should prepare for it, both personally
and societally.

Slides:

There is no downloadable version of the slides for this talk
available at this time.

About the speaker:

Dr Charles Tahan is currently the lead technical consultant to
DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office on quantum-related
programs. With a background in condensed matter physics and
quantum information, previously he was a National Science
Foundation Distinguished International Postdoctoral Research
Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge
(with research also conducted at the University of Melbourne in
Australia and the University of Tokyo, Japan). While in England
he was an invited member of the United Kingdom's Nanotechnology
Taskforce and still remains an advisory board member of the
Nanoethics Group (Santa Barbara, CA) as well as a founding member
of the Nanoethics Network of Aarhus University, Denmark.

Contact information:

Charles Tahan, PhD
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

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