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quantum networking
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:17:23 -0700
________________________________________ From: Rod Van Meter [rdv () sfc wide ad jp] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 5:32 PM To: David Farber Subject: quantum networking Dave, For IP, if you'll permit me a slight personal indulgence... I was at the Conference on Future Internet Technologies (CFI08) in Seoul last week, giving a talk on quantum networking. http://as.icu.ac.kr/cfi08/ The talks were videotaped, and reportedly will eventually be made available on the web. The conference was generally stimulating; some of the papers presented are, IMHO, good ideas, and some are bad ideas, but few were dull. Two of the keynotes were Chip Elliott (BBN, head of the GENI office, and author of the first SIGCOMM quantum networking paper), who talked about GENI, and Kilnam Chon (KAIST, then Tsinghua, now Keio), whose talk on "The Other Billions" is about bringing the Internet to Africa and developing countries throughout the world -- important stuff. In addition to my CFI talk on "Applications of an Entangled Quantum Internet", we have recently had a paper titled "System Design for a Long-Line Quantum Repeater" accepted to Transactions on Networking. It won't appear until Aug. 2009, but a preprint of that paper, as well as the CFI paper and slides, are available on my quantum publications page, http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~rdv/quantum/publications.html IP's Craig Partridge was my session chair, and I'm sure would have an opinion about the paper if asked :-). By rather cosmic (quantum?) coincidence, almost as I was speaking in Seoul, Caltech's Jeff Kimble was publishing a paper in Nature titled "The quantum internet": http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7198/abs/nature07127.html Jeff is brilliant (not to jinx him, but I've heard his name mentioned as a Nobel candidate). His lab is responsible for some of the first and best quantum teleportation experiments. (Akira Furusawa, now at U. Tokyo, was postdoc in Kimble's lab and performed some of those experiments. Furusawa's current work seems to elicit the adjective "heroic" from people, due to the experimental complexity and lengths his team will go to extend those optical squeezing and teleportation experiments.) The paper is a very good survey of current work on optical interconnects for quantum systems, and will mostly be accessible to non-physicists. However, there are only a few sentences that would reach the level of what most IPers would call "networking", and nothing that would qualify as "inter-"networking. Definitely worth a read, though. Apologies for tooting my own horn a bit, but I think there are IPers who will be interested in both my papers and the Kimble paper. Regards, --Rod ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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