Biographical sketch of author

John A. Smolin IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (smolin@us.ibm.com). Dr. Smolin received his B.S. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, and his Ph.D., also in physics, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1996. He has been at the IBM Research Division since receiving his doctorate. He worked with Charles H. Bennett building the first quantum cryptography apparatus at IBM in 1989. Dr. Smolin's current research interests are in quantum information theory and quantum computation, with occasional forays into the foundations of quantum mechanics.