| Event | Quantum Information Processing address by Professor Tony Hey at the National Liberal Club under the auspices of the Real Time Club. |
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| Date | 21 February, 2005 |
| Topic | A review of the implications of quantum physics for the future of information processing and its use for quantum cryptography. |
| Format | Introduction by Charles Ross, address by Professor Tony Hey followed by extensive discussions and Q & A. Charles Ross (QIP LLP) chaired the evening. Professor Andrew Briggs, Director of QIPIRC, contributed significantly to the discussion and Stuart Brocklehurst, VISA International, proposed a vote of thanks. |
| Attendees | 60 senior influencers and decision-makers from a wide variety of sectors and interests including the financial services and the public sector. |
| Speaker | Professor Tony Hey has worked in the field of parallel and distributed
computing since the early 1980's. He was instrumental in the development
of the MPI message-passing standard and in the Genesis Distributed Memory
Parallel Benchmark suite. In 1991, he founded the Southampton Parallel
Applications Centre that has played a leading technology transfer role
in Europe and the UK in collaborative industrial projects. His personal
research interests are concerned with performance engineering for Grid
applications and an interest in experimental explorations of quantum computing
and quantum information theory. Tony Hey is also the author of two popular
science books: 'The Quantum Universe' and 'Einstein's Mirror'. Most recently
he edited the 'Feynman Lectures on Computation' for publication, and a
companion volume entitled 'Feynman and Computation'. Tony Hey is Professor of Computation at the University of Southampton and Head of the Department of Electronics and Computer Science. In March 31st 2001, he was seconded to the EPSRC and DTI as Director of the UK's Core e-Science Programme. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the British Computer Society, the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Professor Hey is European editor of the journal 'Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience' and is on the organising committee of many international conferences. Tony received the CBE in the 2005 New Year’s Honours. |
