Cryptography Watch

On May 24th, 2007, The MIT Center for Bits and Atoms will host a day long series of talks on recent advances in Microfluidics.

Draft Agenda:
Advances in modern microfluidics are leading to renewed interest in fluidic mechanisms for coding and computation, aimed at integrating the logic of control systems with the materials that they manipulate. This workshop will gather together researchers who are scaling fluidic logic down in size and up in complexity with prospective users in a wide range of application areas, to explore this emerging intersection of physical science and computer science. Along with presenting current research, the meeting will seek to foster collaborative development of new capabilities and applications, and help articulate a roadmap for future work.

Attendance is open to the public but requires registration with Susan Murphy-Bottari <susan@cba.mit.edu>

An article in Nature reports that Dr. Jeffrey Shapiro and his team at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT have demonstrated simulated eavesdropping on a quantum communication link.

Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms have created a microfluidic device that uses small bubbles to represent binary bits in a novel computer chip design.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced that The Keck Foundation has funded a major new center for Quantum Information Theory. The new W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory (xQIT) will focus of the research areas of adiabatic quantum computing; quantum channel capacity; and quantum sensing and control.