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2/12/10 Hello again! I come bearing a two page spread (above) and lots of exciting news. With regards to the comic, I dedicate this page to my own computational methods teacher, Dr. G(ustafson), who made me feel a lot better about programming on my first day of class freshman year by telling the class that it might be easier and less confusing to learn MATLAB if one didn't have Java experience. Granted, he was a lot nicer about it than Dr. Talowyn here, haha! As a fledgling engineering student, feeling like it was okay to not have a wealth of programming experience coming into college when a lot of my classmates did was much-needed encouragement. Imagining computing a century from now is a virtually limitless activity...after all, in 1910, who could have envisioned a "computer" as we know it today? I've chosen, as I have tended to do in the past in November Shift, to extrapolate upon currently "new" science. Quantum computing is computing using logic elements based on the spin of an electron in a quantum state, which can be spinning "up", "down", or anywhere in between (as the spin switches from up to down). That's called the superposition of states and allows for nearly infinite programming possibilities. Research being done at Princeton indicates that this is possible with one or two electrons, but it will take a lot more, hundreds, to do anything useful. Anyone with an Android phone: November Shift is available as an application in the Android Market, and expect an update in the next few days that will include multitouch zoom and pan capabilities! Get November Shift updates on your phone in a gorgeous interface!

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