The QSE Roadmap and Journal is undergoing a major upgrade this week (Dec. 18-25) to a new graphical interface. Some of the Roadmap entries may be temporarily truncated: they will return after they have been converted. Happy Holidays to all!
To apply for the UW ME Department's tenure-track faculty position(s) in quantum system engineering, please see this advertisement.
The ME Department encourages any and all qualified applicants, from both theoretical and experimental backgrounds, who seek to create and teach new technologies that push against the bounds that quantum mechanics imposes on the speed, accuracy, sensitivity, size, and power consumption of modern mechatronic devices.
This position provides a wonderful opportunity to participate in creating and teaching the new, exciting, strategically important, and rapidly growing engineering discipline of quantum system engineering (QSE).
Appendix
NIH Roadmap for Medical Research
Molecular Biology of the Cell (4th Edition)
- Preface to the 4th Edition
- Table of Contents
- Part III. Methods
Benedictus de Spinoza
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: click here
Garth Kemerling Philosophy Pages: click here
Spinoza's Political Treatise: click here
Jonathan Israel's Radical Enlightenment: click here
Jonathan Israel's ISA Home Page: click here
Spinoza in Jefferson's library catalog: click here
Spinoza in Jefferson's letters: click here
Robert Huerta's Giants of Delft (interview): click here
Caroline Herschel
NASA biography: click here
Wikipedia biography: click here
Woman Astronomer biography: click here
MacTutor History of Mathematics: click here
Woman Mathematicians biography: click here
Maria Mitchell's reminiscences: click here
Fanny Burney (by way of Megan Sullaway): click here
Garrison Keillor Writer's Almanac text: click here
Garrison Keillor Writer's Almanac audio: click here
Patrick O'Brian's Astronomy: click here
Linus Pauling
Oregon state biography: click here
Nobel Chemistry Prize: click here
Nobel Peace Prize: click here
Rockefeller proposal: click here
Rockefeller proposal PDF href: click here
John von Neumann
Wikipedia biography: click here
National Academy biography: click here
Other biographical material: click here and here
Von Neumann and Wiener discuss atomic-resolution microscopy: click here
The voice of John von Neumann: click here
Catalog entry for John von Neumann's 1955 essay Can we survive technology?, as published in the collection The Fabulous Future: America in 1980: click here
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Mission: click here
Planning: click here
Values: click here
Text of Jefferson's commission to Lewis: click here
Journal on-line: click here
First journal entry click here
Sacagawea biography click here
Paula Gunn Allen's epic poem about Sacagawea, entitled The One Who Skins Cats, from which the banner phrase "great survival sweepstakes" is adopted: click here
David Sarnof
Sarnoff IEEE biography: click here
Sarnoff timeline: click here
Zworykin IEEE biography: click here
Zworykin and Polevetsky marriage: click here
Polevetzky Journal of Bacteriology article: click here
Rasmussen Picture Control book: click here
Intel's Andy Grove Biography: click here
Grove's Strategic Dynamics textbook: click here
Shiing-Shen Chern, Shing-Tung Yau,
Gerald Chan, and Ronnie Chan
These are four people who, in working together,
"think
beyond boundaries and act across borders." Their work provides a daily
demonstration that mathematicians, engineers, scientists, and businessmen—by
working together—can build security and prosperity on a planetary scale.
Shiing-Shen Chern Wikipedia entry: click here
Shing-Tung Yau Wikipedia entry: click here
Shing-Tung Yau on China's development strategy:
Harvard Asia Pacific
Review here, PDF file here
Shing-Tung Yau autobiographical presentation: click here
Shing-Tung Yau on geometry: click here
Kahler manifold reference: click here
Rewienski's model order reduction thesis: click here
Ronnie Chan biosketch: click here
Ronnie Chan's Hang Lung Group: click here
Gerald Chan's Morningside Group: click here
China's Megaprojects in Science and Technology
China's Science and Technology Plan: click here
China's Ministry of Science and Technology: click here
Official text of China's Peaceful Development Road:
click here, PDF
version here
Annual Report to Congress:
Military Power of the People's Republic of China (2006):
the 2006
report, also, an archive of past reports.
Newsweek article The Future Belongs to China: click here
Foreseeing an American strategic decline: click here
Gen. George C. Marshall
Marshall Nobel Peace Prize: click here
Marshall Chief of Staff Army history: click here
Marshall papers (volume II): click here
Marshall Distinguished Service Medal: click here
Marshall Distinguished Service Medal audio: click here
Marshall Plan Speech text: click here
Marshall Plan Speech audio: click here or here
Marshall's character: click here
Marshall's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture: click here
Gene Kranz
Kranz interview one: click here
Kranz interview two: click here
Kranz Amazon reviews: click here
NASA Apollo history: click here
JFK Apollo speech text: click here
JFK Apollo speech audio: click here
Saturn flight manual (for fun!): click here
Redstone Test Center: click here
Letter from Werner von Braun to Vice President Johnson: click here
IBM in NASA history: click here
IBM research and development: click here
Functional simulation (emulation) in NASA history: click here
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Larry Page biography: click here
Sergey Brin biography: click here
Google corporate philosophy: click here
Jane Goodall
Goodall biography: click here
Goodall Institute: click here
Reason for Hope excerpt: click here
Goodall Salon interview: click here
Sapolsky Foreign Affairs: click here
Federative Ideas
Review of Jared Diamond's Collapse: click here
Review of Joseph Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies: click here
The GNU GPL and the American Way: click here
Tipler's dangerous idea: click here
Brand's dangerous idea: click here
Diamond Foreign Affairs review: click here
Federalist papers: click here
Complete Federalist Papers text: click here
US Marine Corps Professional Reading Program
1996 USMC reading list: ALMAR 246/96
2000 USMC reading list: ALMAR 026/00
2005 USMC reading list: ALMAR 007/05
- The Roadmap
- I: History
- – Feynman
- – Dirac
- – Pauling
- – innovation
- – frontiers
- II: Hardware
- – performance
- – metrics
- – innovation
- – spacecraft
- – missions
- – Apollo
- – stages
- – opportunities
- III: Tools
- – Kavli
- – complexity
- – overview
- – formalism
- – hardware
- – single-spin
- – feasibility
- – efficiency
- – robustness
- – transformation
- – capabilities
- – shinkansen
- – mysteries
- – rollouts
- IV: Strategics
- – victory
- – openness
- – federation
- – foundations
- – underway
- V: Healing
