{"id":193,"date":"2013-10-28T14:16:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/?p=193"},"modified":"2013-10-28T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:17:08","slug":"193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bennett to Visit Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2011\/10\/bennett.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2011\/10\/bennett.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a>Dr Charles Bennett will be visiting\u00a0Edinburgh from November 17 and will deliver the Informatics Distinguished Lecture on:<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 19th November at 16.00<br \/>\nRoom G.07, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/informatics\/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Informatics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abstract: The information revolution is based on what a physicist\u00a0would call a classical view of information. Quantum effects were long\u00a0regarded as a mere nuisance for information processing, preventing\u00a0information in microscopic objects from being observed or copied\u00a0accurately, but are now known to make possible feats like quantum\u00a0cryptography and, if a quantum computer can be built, dramatic\u00a0speedups of some computations. More importantly, the quantum approach\u00a0has led to a more coherent and powerful way of thinking about\u00a0information.<\/p>\n<p>We review this approach, especially the uniquely strong and private\u00a0kind of correlation known as entanglement, which plays a role in many\u00a0ways complementary to classical information. Entanglement helps\u00a0explain the origin of randomness, why the future is more uncertain\u00a0than the past, and, paradoxically, the macroscopic world&#8217;s\u00a0superficially classical appearance, which allowed quantum laws to\u00a0remain undiscovered until the 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Charles Bennett will be visiting\u00a0Edinburgh from November 17 and will deliver the Informatics Distinguished Lecture on: Tuesday 19th November at 16.00 Room G.07, School of Informatics Abstract: The information revolution is based on what a physicist\u00a0would call a classical view of information. Quantum effects were long\u00a0regarded as a mere nuisance for information processing, preventing\u00a0information &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/?p=193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charles Bennett to Visit Scotland<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}