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Drop me an email and I can send you 20+ short PDFs worth of lecture notes from a quantum information course I took at Imperial College, if you wish. They're pr

Drop me an email and I can send you 20+ short PDFs worth of lecture notes from a quantum information course I took at Imperial College, if you wish. They're probably as good a 'primer' as any, since they basically go from undergraduate quantum mechanics to quantum computing (& other topics). Should certainly make some of the basic quantum algorithms clear (e.g. Grover's). Failing that, I think Nielsen & Chuang's textbook is really good: http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computation-Information-Anniversary-Edition/dp/1107002176/ http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computation-Information-Annive... It's thorough, naturally, but it does zoom out from time to time.

mindcrime 13y ago
Drop me an email and I can send you 20+ short PDFs worth of lecture notes from a quantum information course I took at Imperial College, if you wish. Any chance you'd be willing to just put that stuff "out there" somewhere, link to them all in a blog post, and submit that here? I'm guessing there would be more than a few people who would find that interesting...
- hdivider 13y ago
  I'd love to. I'm just not quite sure where lecture notes stand, legally speaking. If I send the files to just a few people I theoretically know, I guess it's like lending a book to a friend. But putting them all up for public download feels like quite a different matter. Thoughts?
  - mindcrime 13y ago
    I'm not really sure. I've always tended to assume that if you wrote notes, paraphrasing content that you sat through a lecture on, then you own the copyright on those notes. But I do think I recall at least one case where a professor or a university tried to stop a student from distributing notes, but I don't remember the details... Here's a couple of articles on the topic: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/04/prof-sues-note/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/04/prof-sues-note/ http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/do-students-have-copyright-to-their-own-notes/ http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/do-students-have-cop... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/04/aclass-of-copyright-thieves-a-lawsuit-over-lecture-notes/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/04/aclass-of-copyrig... Unfortunately, IANAL.

mindcrime 13y ago

Drop me an email and I can send you 20+ short PDFs worth of lecture notes from a quantum information course I took at Imperial College, if you wish. Any chance you'd be willing to just put that stuff "out there" somewhere, link to them all in a blog post, and submit that here? I'm guessing there would be more than a few people who would find that interesting...

hdivider 13y ago
I'd love to. I'm just not quite sure where lecture notes stand, legally speaking. If I send the files to just a few people I theoretically know, I guess it's like lending a book to a friend. But putting them all up for public download feels like quite a different matter. Thoughts?
- mindcrime 13y ago
  I'm not really sure. I've always tended to assume that if you wrote notes, paraphrasing content that you sat through a lecture on, then you own the copyright on those notes. But I do think I recall at least one case where a professor or a university tried to stop a student from distributing notes, but I don't remember the details... Here's a couple of articles on the topic: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/04/prof-sues-note/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/04/prof-sues-note/ http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/do-students-have-copyright-to-their-own-notes/ http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/do-students-have-cop... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/04/aclass-of-copyright-thieves-a-lawsuit-over-lecture-notes/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/04/aclass-of-copyrig... Unfortunately, IANAL.