Michael Nielsen

Michael Aaron Nielsen

Michael Nielsen talking at Science Online London 2011
Born January 4, 1974 (1974-01-04) (age 38)
Residence Canada
Nationality Australian
Fields Physicist
Institutions Los Alamos National Laboratory
Caltech
University of Queensland
Perimeter Institute
Alma mater University of New Mexico
Doctoral advisor Carlton M. Caves[1]
Notable awards Richard C. Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, Fulbright Scholar[2]

Michael Aaron Nielsen (born January 4, 1974) is a writer living just outside Toronto, Canada[3]. Before, he was an academic in physics. He worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Richard Chace Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, was Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science and a Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a Senior Faculty Member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Nielsen obtained his PhD in physics in 1998 at the University of New Mexico[1]. With Isaac Chuang he is the co-author of a popular textbook on quantum computing.[4]

In 2007, Nielsen announced a marked shift in his field of research: from quantum information and computation[4][5] to “the development of new tools for scientific collaboration and publication”.[6] This work includes "massively collaborative mathematics" projects like the Polymath project with Timothy Gowers.[7] His book Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, published by Princeton University Press, was released in October 2011[8]. This book is based on themes that are also covered in his essay on the Future of Science[9]. Besides writing books and essays, he also gives talks about Open Science[10].

He is a member of the Working Group on Open Data in Science at the Open Knowledge Foundation.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=116803 Nielsen's math genealogy
  2. ^ http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/michael-a-nielsen/ About Michael Nielsen
  3. ^ http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/ Michael Nielsen's Blog
  4. ^ a b Nielsen, Michael A.; Chuang, Isaac L. (2000). Quantum Computation and Quantum Information. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521632355. OCLC 43641333. 
  5. ^ Nielsen, M. A. (2004). "The bits that make up the Universe". Nature 427 (6969): 16–17. doi:10.1038/427016b.  edit
  6. ^ "Michael Nielsen » Changing fields". http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=274. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 
  7. ^ Gowers, T.; Nielsen, M. (2009). "Massively collaborative mathematics". Nature 461 (7266): 879–881. Bibcode 2009Natur.461..879G. doi:10.1038/461879a. PMID 19829354.  edit
  8. ^ Nielsen, Michael A. (2011). Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-14890-2. 
  9. ^ "Michael Nielsen » The Future of Science". http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=448. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 
  10. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnWocYKqvhw TEDxWaterloo - Michael Nielsen - Open Science
  11. ^ "Working Group on Open Data in Science". http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/science. Retrieved 2009-04-17.