In a two-part article marking the 20th anniversary of Shor's algorithm, Science News writer Tom Sigfriend recalls an SFI meeting in 1994 that he says captured the thoughts of the best quantum thinkers at a key time in quantum history."
"A few weeks after Shor’s revelation," writes Sigfried in Part I, "the leaders of the emerging quantum information field met in Santa Fe to ponder the notion that quantum reality was built on an information foundation. I was there."
After reviewing some of the ideas discussed at the conference, Sigfried writes: "In the two decades since then, the issues raised at the Santa Fe conference have been debated, expanded, pondered, reexamined, and revisited over and over again. But they have not been resolved."
SFI Science Board member and External Professor Seth Lloyd is quoted.
Read the article in Science News (April 18, 2014)