Bob Coecke

Bob Coecke
Born (1968-07-23) 23 July 1968 (age 56)
Willebroek, Belgium[3]
Alma materVrije Universiteit Brussel
Known forCategorical quantum mechanics, ZX-calculus, DisCoCat, quantum natural language processing, dagger compact categories
Scientific career
Fields
Industrial music
Institutions
Thesis Hidden Measurement Systems  (1996)
Doctoral advisor
  • Diederik Emiel Aerts
  • Jean Reignier[2]
Websitewww.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.coecke/

Bob Coecke (born 23 July 1968) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and logician who was professor of Quantum foundations, Logics and Structures at Oxford University until 2020. He pioneered categorical quantum mechanics (entry 18M40 in Mathematics Subject Classification 2020), Quantum Picturalism,[4] ZX-calculus, DisCoCat model for natural language,[5] and quantum natural language processing (QNLP). He is a founder of the Quantum Physics and Logic community and conference series, and of the journal Compositionality.

Coecke is also a composer and musician, who has been called a pioneer of industrial music,[6][7] and is also one of the pioneers of employing quantum computers in music.[8]

  1. ^ Bob Coecke publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference mathgene was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Bishop, Christopher (7 December 2022). "Quantum Tech Pod Episode 40: Quantinuum Chief Scientist Bob Coecke". Inside Quantum Technology News. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  4. ^ Coecke, Bob; Kissinger, Aleks (16 March 2017). Picturing quantum processes : a first course in quantum theory and diagrammatic reasoning. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107104228. OCLC 1026174191.
  5. ^ Coecke, Bob; Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh; Clark, Stephen (2011), Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning, arXiv:1003.4394
  6. ^ Cody Conard: Black Tish - Throbbing Flip Out (Blindsight Records), The Big Takeover Show, 15 October 2023 (review)
  7. ^ Layla Marino: New Artist Spotlight? Sort of: Meet Black Tish, the Pioneering Industrial Band that Released their Work 35 Years Late, YourEDM, 4 October 2023 ([1])
  8. ^ Layla Marino: Roll Over Quanthoven: Can Quantum Computers Be Programmed To Become Quantum Composers?, Matt Swayne, 19 November 2021 ([2])