Michael Nielsen

Michael Nielsen is a writer working on a book about how the internet is changing the way scientific discoveries are made. In a past life Michael was a theoretical physicist who co-authored the standard text on quantum computing -- now one of the ten most cited books in the history of physics.  He's written 60 scientific papers, including one of the first experimental demonstrations of quantum teleportation, named as one of Science Magazine's 'Breakthroughs of the Year' for 1998.  He was a Fulbright Scholar, the Tolman Fellow at Caltech, and Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Queensland in Australia.  In 2008, Michael gave up a tenured academic position at the Perimeter Institute (Canada) to write his book.  His next project will be a technology startup.  He blogs at http://michaelnielsen.org/blog