David Cory

David G. Cory is a professor of chemistry at the University of Waterloo[1] where he holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing.[2] He works at the Institute for Quantum Computing, and is also associated with the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology.

For the Australian politician, see David Cory (politician).

Cory was educated at Case Western Reserve University, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1981 and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1987.[1][3][4] He was a professor of Nuclear Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology prior to his 2010 appointment at Waterloo.[1][2] At MIT, he worked on NMR, including his work on NMR quantum computation.[5][6][7] Together with Amr Fahmy and Timothy Havel he developed the concept of pseudo-pure states and performed the first experimental demonstrations of NMR quantum computing.[8]

References
  1. Faculty profile, University of Waterloo, retrieved 2014-07-16.
  2. David Cory, Canada Excellence Research Chairs, Government of Canada, accessed 2014-07-16.
  3. "Alum Updates" (PDF), The Case Chemist, 104: 7, Winter 2010–2011.
  4. Worldcat entry for Cory's dissertation, "Applications of cross polarization spin dynamics in solids", retrieved 2014-07-16.
  5. Lloyd, Seth (2006), Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, pp. 151–152, ISBN 9780307264718.
  6. "Quantum computer in a cup of joe?", Science News, 17 January 1997.
  7. "Quantum dreams", The Economist, March 8, 2001.
  8. "MIT researchers create quantum computer that simulates quantum system", MIT News, June 25, 1999
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