Photographic memories - Rob Kroes

Rob Thew

Quantum communication is the art of transferring a quantum state from one place to another. Traditionally, the sender is named Alice and the receiver Bob. Th e basic motivation is that quantum states code quantum information — called qubits in the case of two-dimensional Hilbert spaces — and that quantum information allows tasks to be performed that could only be achieved far less effi ciently,...

Sociological Rob: How Rob Kling Brought Computing and Sociology Together

I was giving a talk about communication networks and social networks at the Sunbelt Social Network conference. This was well before the Internet. No one cared about this except for this rather big, red-headed guy who was leaning forward with interest, nodding and frowning as I went on. I immediately knew that he would be Questioner #1. I was right. Rob eagerly asked good, sharp questions about ...

Rob Dunn

weather pattern. In February, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned in its routine forecasts that the bleaching observed in the Pacific last year may be the start of a third global catastrophe for coral reefs. And this time, it cannot be blamed on El Niño. It is simply down to the general warming of the oceans, which in 2014 reached the highest average temperature...

"We Rob Banks"

s film study of violence, is assessed by a psychoanalyst , H. P. Hildebrand. Bonnie and Clyde is a profoundly serious film of the widest interest. The director, Arthur Penn, has said he designed it as a study of violence. Whether one considers Bonnie and Clyde purely as a film or within the wider context of the problem of aggression in Western society today, there is no doubt that he has been b...

by Rob Imrie