{"id":31037,"date":"2016-10-14T17:05:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T00:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/australian-engineer-takes-out-inaugural-global-prize-for-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:09:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:09:24","slug":"australian-engineer-takes-out-inaugural-global-prize-for-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/australian-engineer-takes-out-inaugural-global-prize-for-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Australian engineer takes out inaugural global prize for quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-engineer-takes-out-inaugural-global-prize-for-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leading Australian engineer and physicist, Professor Andrea Morello, was today named inaugural recipient of the Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing by the prestigious American Physical Society, the world\u2019s leading organisation of physicists.<\/p>\n<p>Morello, a professor in UNSW\u2019s School of Electrical Engineering &amp; Telecommunications and head of the Quantum Spin Control group at the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, was awarded the prize \u201cfor remarkable achievements in the experimental development of spin qubits in silicon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The prize, endowed by the International Business Machines Corp, is named for two of the founding fathers of modern information science, both classical and quantum.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/wire-news\/237719244\/australian-engineer-takes-out-inaugural-global-prize-for-quantum.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/wire-news\/237719244\/australian-engineer-take...antum.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading Australian engineer and physicist, Professor Andrea Morello, was today named inaugural recipient of the Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing by the prestigious American Physical Society, the world\u2019s leading organisation of physicists. Morello, a professor in UNSW\u2019s School of Electrical Engineering &amp; Telecommunications and head of the Quantum Spin Control [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66004,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31037\/revisions\/66004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}