1 Another ECSE death

Steve Dombrowski died last night. He'd been in ECSE since 1979. Jerry Dziuba died last month; he'd been here longer. Not ECSE but close, Peter Fox died a few months ago. Then there are the unusual number of retirees who've died recently. This is getting horrible.

The relevance to you is that you had better like what you're doing, at least on balance. Or, do something else. I'm still here because I like learning and talking to bright people. Also, it's fun seeing what my former students have succeeded at.

2 The Quantum Spin Grenoble Initiative For Large Scale Quantum Computing

https://ny-creates.org/news-events/ny-creates-events/

This looks good. You must preregister.

Dr. Tristan Meunier, CNRS – Néel Institute November 18 (Thursday), 2021 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (EST) Virtual via Zoom

Should this replace the class?

3 Your opinion on class format wanted

I'd like your opinion about requiring in-person attendance in class next spring vs taping the lecture and letting students watch it later.

One complexity: if it can be made to work, I'd like to interrupt the lectures with a poll every 20 minutes or so. This is pedagogically good. However that wouldn't work for students watching later.

Also, recording might be impossible when there are several source media. How could I record if, in the same lecture, I showed a video and pages from the book using my thinkpad and then wrote something on my ipad?

If I dumbed down my techniques to accommodate the remote students, then this hurts the in-person ones.

Your opinions? Thanks.

4 Today's videos

I might show only the start; you can watch the rest on your own if you're interested.

1. Panel: What can Quantum do for AI? (47:57),Nov 16, 2018.

   Inaugural AI Research Week, hosted by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. Panel discussion on research directions at the intersection of AI and Quantum Computing.

   Panelists: Yoshua Bengio, Head of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), Aram Harrow, Associate Professor of Physics, MIT, Peter Shor, Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT, Kristan Temme, Research Staff Member, IBM Research.