Pieter Kok
Pieter Kok, Ph.D. (born June 17, 1972) is one of the co-developers of quantum interferometric optical lithography. He is a co-author of a measurement-based entanglement protocol and also the book Introduction to Optical Quantum Information Processing with Brendon Lovett.
Kok was born in Friesland in the Netherlands. In 1997 he graduated from the University of Utrecht with a degree in Foundations of Quantum Theory. In 2001, he received his PhD in physics from the University of Wales, Bangor. His research specializations include linear optical implementations of quantum communication and computation protocols, quantum teleportation and the interpretation of quantum theory. Dr. Kok has worked in the Quantum Computing Technologies Group at the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, England and at the Department of Materials in Oxford University. He is currently teaching and researching at the University of Sheffield.
He and his wife, Rose Roberto, live in northern England with their two children.
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POWDER KEG
by: The FallYou better listen
It's thin
It's a powder keg.
You better listen to me.
Take me home.
I don't want to go.
Take me back to the safe.
You know better.
You better listen.
It's a powder keg.
You better listen.
Retreat from Enniskillen
I had a dream
Bruised it coloured
It going to hurt me
Manchester city center
Caroline
Take me back
I can't get the bus.
Do you know what they say. You better listen
he's a powder keg.
You better listen to me
Sickening in its infection.
His radioactive radio-head drips with powder
His aura, round halo, thin.
Listen to me.
Thin.
Retreat.
Head loaded people avoid bad luck.
Hives away.
Confined to the university in the town.
Powder, retreat from Enniskillen
I don't want to go.
Take me home
Take me back to town, Mark.
Don't you know, the town is a powder keg.