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Taking Measure

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Carl Miller

Carl A. Miller is a mathematician in the NIST Computer Security Division and a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science at the University of Maryland. Carl has lived in Maryland, North Carolina, California, and Michigan, and is now happy to back within three miles from where he went to high school. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his partner Andrea and their cats Autumn and Pepe, and he really misses Leonard Cohen.

man standing in front of a white board filled with equations. Four other men sit around a table watching.

Quantum Information: Changing the Rules of the Game

August 2, 2017

I was a math researcher at the University of Michigan back in 2008 when I had the crazy—one could even say random—notion to shift from studying pure mathematics

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