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A monthly feature about the careers and lives of UM Physics alumni

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A monthly feature highlighting current UM Physics research


Interview with
Alumnus
Herbert Edelstein (B.S., 1966)

This month: ...Herbert Edelstein spends his days with data – market data, employee data, drug trial data, any kind of data. He examines it, analyzes it, and finds patterns in it. Then, he provides his clients with knowledge from their own databases that they never even knew existed. Sound much like a physicist? Maybe not at first. But, Edelstein still has the notebooks from the mechanics class he took with Dr. Alex Dragt at the University of Maryland in the early 1960's. And he says that, even as president and founder of a data mining consulting firm he calls Two Crows, he uses his physics education regularly. ...

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Professor J. Robert Anderson
Josephson-Junction Qubits: Entanglement and Coherence

This month: ... Since our previous article, "Quantum Computing with rf SQUIDs", which appeared about four years ago in The Photon, we have made changes in our primary approach to the use of superconducting elements as qubits. Now we are focusing on single Josephson junctions as qubits, an idea that was suggested by members of our research group. ....

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