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Library Monthly - May 2018

In this issue: Call for iBook Proposals The Social Impact Challenge Almost Like Magic: Farewell to Four Amazing Students Summer Music Festivals Nature and the Great Outdoors on the Library Website Invitation to Speak at the Library A Special Thank You To: All Presenters During Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 All Good Things Must Come to an End: The End of an Era with Mathew Avila Activate Your Complimentary Wall Street Journal Membershiphttps://spiral.lynn.edu/libpubs/1015/thumbnail.jp

Recipes for spin-based quantum computing

Technological growth in the electronics industry has historically been measured by the number of transistors that can be crammed onto a single microchip. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end; spectacular growth in the number of transistors on a chip requires spectacular reduction of the transistor size. For electrons in semiconductors, the laws of quantum mechanics take over at the nanometre scale, and the conventional wisdom for progress (transistor cramming) must be abandoned. This realization has stimulated extensive research on ways to exploit the spin (in addition to the orbital) degree of freedom of the electron, giving birth to the field of spintronics. Perhaps the most ambitious goal of spintronics is to realize complete control over the quantum mechanical nature of the relevant spins. This prospect has motivated a race to design and build a spintronic device capable of complete control over its quantum mechanical state, and ultimately, performing computations: a quantum computer. In this tutorial we summarize past and very recent developments which point the way to spin-based quantum computing in the solid-state. After introducing a set of basic requirements for any quantum computer proposal, we offer a brief summary of some of the many theoretical proposals for solid-state quantum computers. We then focus on the Loss-DiVincenzo proposal for quantum computing with the spins of electrons confined to quantum dots. There are many obstacles to building such a quantum device. We address these, and survey recent theoretical, and then experimental progress in the field. To conclude the tutorial, we list some as-yet unrealized experiments, which would be crucial for the development of a quantum-dot quantum computer.Comment: 45 pages, 12 figures (low-res in preprint, high-res in journal) tutorial review for Nanotechnology; v2: references added and updated, final version to appear in journa

The Way We Were: Structural Operational Semantics Research in Perspective

This position paper on the (meta-)theory of Structural Operational Semantic (SOS) is motivated by the following two questions: (1) Is the (meta-)theory of SOS dying out as a research field? (2) If so, is it possible to rejuvenate this field with a redefined purpose? In this article, we will consider possible answers to those questions by first analysing the history of the EXPRESS/SOS workshops and the data concerning the authors and the presentations featured in the editions of those workshops as well as their subject matters. The results of our quantitative and qualitative analyses all indicate a diminishing interest in the theory of SOS as a field of research. Even though `all good things must come to an end', we strive to finish this position paper on an upbeat note by addressing our second motivating question with some optimism. To this end, we use our personal reflections and an analysis of recent trends in two of the flagship conferences in the field of Programming Languages (namely POPL and PDLI) to draw some conclusions on possible future directions that may rejuvenate research on the (meta-)theory of SOS. We hope that our musings will entice members of the research community to breathe new life into a field of research that has been kind to three of the authors of this article.Comment: In Proceedings EXPRESS/SOS2023, arXiv:2309.0578

The Cowl - v.8 - n.9 - Junior Prom Souvenir Edition - Nov 23, 1942

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 8, Number 9 - Junior Prom Souvenir Edition - Nov 23, 1942. 4 pages

University High Highlights 11/19/1958

This is the student newspaper from University High School, the high school that was on the campus of Western Michigan University, then called University High Highlights, in 1958