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November 27th, 2006
UW receives $33.4 million for research worth $77.3 million
Abstract:
Project title: From Nano Structures to Quantum Information Processing:A Technology Incubator for the 21st Century. UW professors Raymond Laflamme, also director of the Institute for Quantum Computing, and Tong Leung will lead researchers from UW, the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and Sunnybrook
Health Sciences Centre. CFI's leading edge fund is providing $17,955,697 and the project is worth $50,326,944.
Source:
newswire.ca
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