Workshop on Neuromorphic Computing DSO As profiled in Wired and BAA SN08-16, DSO is hosting a workshop on neuromorphic adaptive plastic scalable electronics to be held on 04 March, 2008. "Briefly, the vision for the anticipated DARPA SyNAPSE program is to enable electronic neuromorphic machine technology that is scalable to biological levels. As compared to biological systems, today’s intelligent machines are less efficient by a factor of one million to one billion in real world, complex environments. The key to achieving the vision of the SyNAPSE program will be an unprecedented multidisciplinary approach that can coordinate aggressive technology development activities in the following SyNAPSE areas: 1) hardware; 2) architecture; 3) simulation; and 4) environment. Hardware includes neuromorphic electronics with novel, high density, plastic, synaptic components; architecture includes neuromorphic design from microcircuit to complete system; simulation includes large-scale digital simulation of neuromorphic circuits and functional neuromorphic systems; and environment includes virtual training, testing and benchmarking for neuromorphic systems realized in hardware or simulation. "

QuanTalk EU QIST Via the Pontiff, a new web-based initiative supported by the European Union under ERA-Pilot QIST grant, QuanTalk. " The purpose of the project is to provide a central facility for open review and discussion of research in quantum information science worldwide. The heart of the site is the Articles section, wherein we provide three main features, (1) Open scientific discussion of the latest research in quantum information. The system will be familiar to those who use forum systems or blogs, but it differs in its approach to permanence and accountability. (2) A community review process, open peer review, to which authors may submit their work. This feature is not yet available during the current beta test of quantalk.org. (3) An open archive where authors can deposit digital material that they wish to make available to the community. During the beta phase, hosting is restricted to PDF documents."

Marc Feldman, 1945-2007 Rochester Marc J. Feldman, professor and scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester, passed away December 4, 2007 at age 62. Feldman was a founder and early pioneer in the field of superconducting quantum computing. As leader of the Superconducting Electronics Laboratory at Rochester, he led a number of major projects to explore advanced computing concepts. "Marc will be missed tremendously by all, not only was he an outstanding scientist in his own right but he was a generous and prolific scientific collaborator. His deep love of science, boundless intellectual energy and gentle sense of humor made it truly a privilege and a pleasure to call Marc our colleague and friend." – Mark Bocko

Experimental demonstration of Berry's Phase in a solid-state qubit Zürich|Waterloo|Sherbrooke|Yale In Science, arXiv preprint, and concomitant ETH-Zürich report "Geometry for Quantum Computers," researchers in collaboration with the Quantum Device Lab have demonstrated Berry's phase in solid-state circuit quantum electrodynamics, an approach which is inherently robust against certain types of errors. "Geometric phase has been argued to have potential fault tolerance. We demonstrate the controlled accumulation of geometric phase, Berry's phase, in a superconducting qubit, manipulating the qubit geometrically using microwave radiation, and observe the accumulated phase in an interference experiment. "