Michael Nielsen
Bio
Current projects
I’m writing a book about The Future of Science. The book describes a major shift now occurring in how scientific discoveries are made, a shift driven by online tools for collaboration and sharing of scientific information. The book describes both the great potential such tools have to improve how science is done, and the challenges that must be overcome to fully realize that potential.
I’m giving a series of lectures on the Google Technology Stack, the powerful proprietary technologies that makes it easy for Google developers to generate and process enormous quantities of data. There is a course syllabus and FriendFeed room.
Past projects
Michael Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computation. Together with Ike Chuang of MIT, he wrote the standard text on quantum computation. This is the most highly cited physics publication of the last 25 years, and one of the ten most highly cited physics books of all time (Source: Google Scholar, December 2007). He is the author of more than fifty scientific papers, including invited contributions to Nature and Scientific American. His research contributions include involvement in one of the first quantum teleportation experiments (related), named as one of Science Magazine’s Top Ten Breakthroughs of the Year for 1998, quantum gate teleportation, quantum process tomography, the fundamental majorization theorem for comparing entangled quantum states, and critical contributions to the formula for the quantum channel capacity (1, 2, 3). A full list of papers is here.
Education and employment
Michael was educated at the University of Queensland, and as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of New Mexico. He worked at 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. He left Perimeter Institute in order to write a book about the future of science.
Contact
Email: mn@michaelnielsen.org
Phone: +1 (519) 498 1476