Bangsa Indonesia perlu bersyukur bahwa pernah memiliki seorang Rahmat Abdullah. Alhamdulillah saya pernah bertemu beberapa kali dengan yang bersangkutan di Jakarta tahun 1990-an dan di Bandung sekitar tahun 2002 di TK Fursan, Dago, Bandung.

Berikut beberapa dokumentasi beliau:

http://agung-trisetyarso.blogspot.com/2008/07/almarhum-ust-rahmat-abdullah.html

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Seminggu ini saya semakin yakin, bahwa kejeniusan berbanding lurus dengan lelucon. Setidaknya itu saya lihat pada sosok Prof. Seth Lloyd dan Pak Armein (walaupun yang bersangkutan mungkin pasti menolak dikatakan sejenius Prof. Lloyd)

Definisi lelucon disini bukanlah seperti perilaku sebagian pelawak yang melawak secara kasar; melainkan lelucon2x dengan kata-kata dan pemikiran2x yang membuat kita menertawakan diri sendiri dan keadaan.

Ketika saya masih di ITB, saya sangat menikmati kuliah dengan Pak Pantur Silaban; beliau dikenal dengan lelucon2x politik dan sosial yang benar2x nyelekit; terkadang tak sedikit yang akan marah dengan perkataannya. Tapi, kalau dipahami dalam2x, ternyata perkataan2x tersebut tak ubahnya cara kita menertawakan diri sendiri dan keadaan yang kita hadapi.

Ketika Prof. Lloyd memberikan kuliah dan berdiskusi dengan saya, kenangan bersama Pak Silaban benar2x terbuka kembali.

Mari kita latih diri kita untuk dapat menciptakan lelucon2x yang dapat menertawakan diri sendiri dan keadaan. Mungkin dengan cara itu kita bisa menuju kejeniusan.

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Pembimbing saya mengatakan, kini jurnal quantum information paling beken adalah QIC.

Silakan baca artikel dari Isaac Chuang di Nature:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v420/n6911/full/420025a.html

Nature Magazine Journal Review (Nov. 7, 2002)

on Quantum Information and Computation
coordinating managing editor Hoi-Kwong Lo
Rinton Press, 7 issues/yr. $260 (institutional); $140 (individual)

Growing Up With Quantum Computing
Isaac Chuang

Physics and computer science have given birth to a new field: quantum computation and quantum information. And just as proud parents with new born children may find Parenting magazine appearing in their mailboxes, researchers in this field now have Quantum Information and Computation, a timely new journal from Rinton Press.

This journal, just over one year old, serves a nascent community that was originally founded in the mid-1980s on the principle that information and physics are fundamentally intertwined at their deepest levels. The spark that ignited worldwide interest in this insight sprang forth in 1994 with Peter Shor’s discovery of a theoretical way to use quantum-mechanical resources to unravel a mathematical problem at the heart of electronic commerce and cryptography. The heyday of quantum computing followed, with rapid invention of ways to combine the results of classic information theory such as error correction with quantum physics. Experiments also successfully realized quantum algorithms and protocols including quantum state teleportation, using techniques from optics, nuclear and atomic physics, and even exotic chemistry. Eight years on, as maturity is beginning to descend, the excitement is still palpable and the young field is starting to walk — but where will it learn to talk?

The appearance of Quantum Information and Computation fills its need in the community, establishing a middle ground between computer science, physics and the publication forums of other disciplines. Quantum-computing papers currently clamour for time and attention all the way from Science and Nature to the proceedings of the IEEE Foundations of Computer Science and the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing. Also the field has gradually developed its own language and style, challenging the limitations of venues intended for general audience. In Quantum Information and Computation, papers have a natural home where authors will finally be free to assume a basic knowledge of concepts, such as quantum circuits and computational complexity.

Readers will also be pleased to find the journal well balanced and populated with high-quality articles of generous length. The members of the editorial board are accomplished and respected leaders in the field, representing both theoretical and experimental work, and including experts in both physics and computer science. This careful balance is reflected in the contents: the first issue is a beautiful four-part treatise on entanglement in all its theoretical aspects (providing a much-needed entree into the subject), and another early issue elegantly assembles 14 expert articles covering all the main implementation schemes for quantum computers, including an inspired piece by David DiVincenzo on “Dogma and heresy in quantum computing”. The journal publishes tutorials as well as regular articles, and features in-depth reviews of books in the field, plus a regular and lively “webcorner” that lists online links to active research groups, upcoming conferences and workshops.

Judging from the first ten issues, Quantum Information and Computation is here to stay, and will find a warm welcome in the quantum-computation and quantum-information community.

Isaac Chuang is at the Center for Bits and Atoms, Media Laboratory, MIT,  20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

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Seorang pejabat BP Migas mengancam saya akan dimasukkan penjara, disebabkan rumus yang saya pakai:

Korupsi di sektor Migas = (Data ICW) * (konstanta)

Ancaman itu dilayangkan disebuah milis.

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Rekan-Rekan yth.,

Kita semua baru saja menerima laporan yang sungguh membuat merinding;
bahwa penyelewengan di penerimaan minyak tahun 2000-2007 menyentuh
angka 194 triliun.

http://www.detikfinance.com/read/2008/07/09/173510/969592/4/bp-migas-berharap-ic\
w-salah-hitung-soal-penyimpangan-migas

Itu yang terdeteksi; yang tak terdeteksi pastilah lebih banyak lagi.
Anggap saja yang sesungguhnya adalah 400 triliun.(Bisa saja yang
sesungguhnya 5 kali atau 10 kali lipat s/d 1940 triliun)

Jika anggapan kita bahwa angka sesungguhnya adalah 400 triliun, maka
seharusnya kita tak butuh kenaikan BBM yang kemarin dilakukan; dengan
asumsi untuk 120 USD/barel butuh subsidi 200 triliun
(http://www.hukmas.depkeu.go.id/Ind/News/NewsFiscal.asp?link=Penjelasan_BBM_2305\
08.doc)

Yang salah tentu bukan SBY; beliau hanya menuruti para ekonom2x
disekiliingnya.

Ada baiknya rakyat bersatu untuk menyikapi hal ini.

Salam,

Agung

Seorang warga Indonesia yang berprofesi sebagai Marbot Mushalla dan
sedang belajar menulis.

https://trisetyarso.wordpress.com/

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Kemarin kami seharian menghabiskan waktu seharian bersama Prof. Seth Lloyd. Beliau mendengarkan presentasi dari grup Prof. Itoh, dimana alhamdulillah saya diberikan mengawali sekitar 30 menit lebih, kemudian diikuti oleh rekan2x lain. Setelah itu beliau bersedia berdiskusi dan memberikan kuliah juga.

Kuliah tersebut sendiri teramat sangat mengasyikkan; beliau dikenal anti menggunakan PPT, sehingga hanya menggunakan papan tulis saja. Yang disampaikan adalah mengenai Quantum illumination; yaitu mengenai peran entanglement di dalam propagasi photon.

Diantara beberapa topik yang teramat sangat menarik yang dipresentasikan oleh beliau adalah ide mengenai “Quoogle”, yaitu ide mengenai search engine berbasis quantum algorithm yang tengah dikembangkan Google-MIT, dan juga mengenai Quantum Walk yang dikembangkan oleh Prof. Edward Farhi dan Prof. Goldstone di MIT. Ternyata Dendrimer dan Photosynthesis mengandung pula konsep-konsep quantum algorithms.

Kuliah dan diskusi bertambah menarik ketika beliau ternyata seseorang yang teramat sangat humoris, hangat dan ramah.(Diantara humornya yang renyah adalah menggunakan model si GW Bush sebagai contoh dinding potensial di quantum)

Btw, penampilan beliau sangat sederhana dan kurang mencerminkan seorang superstar dari MIT; beliau datang menggunakan hem yang digulung, menggunakan topi olahraga dan bersepatu kets New Balance warna hitam. 😀

Berikut sedikit poto dengan beliau; dan akan menyusul beberapa poto lagi.

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Operations outside the knowledge and control of commanders have eroded “the coherence of military strategy,” one general says.

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Audio: Seymour M. Hersh talks about the White House and Iran.

Keywords

Iran;

Bush, George W. (Pres.) (43rd);

Foreign Policy;

Presidential Findings;

Covert Operations;

Fallon, William (Admiral);

Congressional Oversight

L ate last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons program.

Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of “high-value targets” in the President’s war on terror, who may be captured or killed. But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), have now been significantly expanded, according to the current and former officials. Many of these activities are not specified in the new Finding, and some congressional leaders have had serious questions about their nature.

Under federal law, a Presidential Finding, which is highly classified, must be issued when a covert intelligence operation gets under way and, at a minimum, must be made known to Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and the Senate and to the ranking members of their respective intelligence committees—the so-called Gang of Eight. Money for the operation can then be reprogrammed from previous appropriations, as needed, by the relevant congressional committees, which also can be briefed.

“The Finding was focussed on undermining Iran’s nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change,” a person familiar with its contents said, and involved “working with opposition groups and passing money.” The Finding provided for a whole new range of activities in southern Iran and in the areas, in the east, where Baluchi political opposition is strong, he said.

Although some legislators were troubled by aspects of the Finding, and “there was a significant amount of high-level discussion” about it, according to the source familiar with it, the funding for the escalation was approved. In other words, some members of the Democratic leadership—Congress has been under Democratic control since the 2006 elections—were willing, in secret, to go along with the Administration in expanding covert activities directed at Iran, while the Party’s presumptive candidate for President, Barack Obama, has said that he favors direct talks and diplomacy.

The request for funding came in the same period in which the Administration was coming to terms with a National Intelligence Estimate, released in December, that concluded that Iran had halted its work on nuclear weapons in 2003. The Administration downplayed the significance of the N.I.E., and, while saying that it was committed to diplomacy, continued to emphasize that urgent action was essential to counter the Iranian nuclear threat. President Bush questioned the N.I.E.’s conclusions, and senior national-security officials, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, made similar statements. (So did Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee.) Meanwhile, the Administration also revived charges that the Iranian leadership has been involved in the killing of American soldiers in Iraq: both directly, by dispatching commando units into Iraq, and indirectly, by supplying materials used for roadside bombs and other lethal goods. (There have been questions about the accuracy of the claims; the Times, among others, has reported that “significant uncertainties remain about the extent of that involvement.”)

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Military and civilian leaders in the Pentagon share the White House’s concern about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but there is disagreement about whether a military strike is the right solution. Some Pentagon officials believe, as they have let Congress and the media know, that bombing Iran is not a viable response to the nuclear-proliferation issue, and that more diplomacy is necessary.

A Democratic senator told me that, late last year, in an off-the-record lunch meeting, Secretary of Defense Gates met with the Democratic caucus in the Senate. (Such meetings are held regularly.) Gates warned of the consequences if the Bush Administration staged a preëmptive strike on Iran, saying, as the senator recalled, “We’ll create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America.” Gates’s comments stunned the Democrats at the lunch, and another senator asked whether Gates was speaking for Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. Gates’s answer, the senator told me, was “Let’s just say that I’m here speaking for myself.” (A spokesman for Gates confirmed that he discussed the consequences of a strike at the meeting, but would not address what he said, other than to dispute the senator’s characterization.)

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, whose chairman is Admiral Mike Mullen, were “pushing back very hard” against White House pressure to undertake a military strike against Iran, the person familiar with the Finding told me. Similarly, a Pentagon consultant who is involved in the war on terror said that “at least ten senior flag and general officers, including combatant commanders”—the four-star officers who direct military operations around the world—“have weighed in on that issue.”

The most outspoken of those officers is Admiral William Fallon, who until recently was the head of U.S. Central Command, and thus in charge of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. In March, Fallon resigned under pressure, after giving a series of interviews stating his reservations about an armed attack on Iran. For example, late last year he told the Financial Times that the “real objective” of U.S. policy was to change the Iranians’ behavior, and that “attacking them as a means to get to that spot strikes me as being not the first choice.”

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Rekan-Rekan yth.,

Kasus ini sudah cukup lama, tapi tidak salah untuk dibaca lagi:

Controversy regarding Nobel Prize

There was a controversy involving Sudarshan and the Nobel Prize in
Physics for 2005. Several physicists wrote a letter to the Swedish
Academy, protesting that Sudarshan should have been awarded a share of
the Prize for the Sudarshan-Glauber representation (or Sudarshan
diagonal representation) in quantum optics, for which Roy J. Glauber
won his share of the prize. Because the terms of Alfred Nobel’s will
restrict the number of Nobel Prize winners to three in a given year,
the Nobel Committee has often been criticized for allegedly ignoring
scientists who did seminal work on a topic while awarding a prize to
other scientists for the same topic.[2]

For the first time, Sudarshan himself has broken his silence over the
Nobel controversy. Speaking to the Hindustan Times, he expressed
frustration at the way he was ignored for top science honours, saying
“The 2005 Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my work, but I
wasn’t the one to get it. Each one of the discoveries that the Nobel
was given for were based on my research.”[3]

About having been denied the Nobel in 1979 as well, Sudarshan said,
“Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam built on work I had
done as a 26-year-old student. If you give a prize for a building,
shouldn’t the fellow who built the first floor be given the prize
before those who built the second floor?”

See also Matthew Effect

Sumber: http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ George_Sudarshan

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Masyarakat terbangun jika kita semua berkontribusi.

Kontribusi terbesar adalah dengan doa.

Setelahnya adalah dengan ilmu.

Setelahnya dengan harta.

Setelahnya dengan nasihat.

Setelahnya adalah dengan senyum.

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