John Ashmead

John Ashmead has a BA in physics from Harvard, summa cum laude, and a masters in physics from Princeton. For several years he was an assistant editor for Asimov's SF Magazine. Since then he has worked as a software and database developer. He currently supports a leading optical switch manufacturer (your web pages & email travel over switches he helped build). John has stayed part of the science fiction community. Recently he co-edited Tales from the Miskatonic University. And he has given talks at NASA, Philcon, Capclave, Balticon, and several Worldcons on Time Travel, Invisibility, Practical Telepathy, Artificial Intelligence, the Quantum Internet,... He has published several papers in peer reviewed journals in the areas of time and quantum mechanics, the most recent on "Time dispersion in bound states" proposing practical experiments to see if the rules of quantum mechanics apply to time. His life time ambition: invent a really practical time machine.