Tag: geek
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Innovation in Canada
More particle than wave A geeky prime minister wants to make the country more inventive ASKED by a journalist in April about Canada’s role in fighting Islamic State, Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, came back with a pithy lecture on quantum computing. “The uncertainty around quantum states,” he explained, lets quantum computers encode much more…
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‘Innovation is in Our DNA,’ Obama Announces Research, Innovation Funding
“I’m a nerd,” U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday, speaking at a science and technology conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “I’m a science geek. … I don’t make any apologies for it.” The president got laughter and applause for his comment. He had an audience full of science geeks. Pittsburgh, once seen as an industrial metropolis…