Michael Nielsen (quantum information theorist)

Michael Nielsen (quantum information theorist)

Michael A. Nielsen (born January 4 1974) is a writer living just outside Toronto, Canada. Before, he was an academic in physics. He worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Richard Chace Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, was Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science and a Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a Senior Faculty Member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Nielsen obtained his PhD in physics in 1998 at the University of New Mexico.

In 2007, Nielsen announced a marked shift in his field of research: from quantum information and computation to “the development of new tools for scientific collaboration and publication” [http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=274] . He is currently working on a book on the Future of Science [http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=448] .

Selected bibliography

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External links

* [http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/ Michael Nielsen's Blog]


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