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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Relational Intelligence in Amsterdam at Quantum Physics and Logic. rel-int.ai

Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Pretty cool that the leading German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine mentions my Quantum Guitar and my quantum-inspired Text Circuits. (see translation in comments) archive.ph/6Vfyt#select...

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Here is an Entangled Things podcast where we explain what "Relational Intelligence" is about, and talk about "Quantum Entertainment" - both representing our recent developments in start-up land. ep.entangledthings.com/19581866 open.spotify.com/episode/38IX... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Episode 146: Relational Intelligence and Quantum Entertainment with Bob Coecke - Entangled Things

In Episode 146, Bob Coecke, Founder and CEO of Relational Intelligence returns alongside Alessandro Cheli, Categorical Machine Learning Operations at Relational Intelligence, to introduce two brand ne...

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Here is an Entangled Things podcast where we explain what "Relational Intelligence" is about, and also talk about "Quantum Entertainment" - both representing recent developments of us in start-up land. :) lnkd.in/eKi2UP74 Also available on Apple and Spotify.

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In Lisbon...some relief from UK heath. fmqc-workshop.github.io/2026/

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We'll soon be playing at Wacken Open Air again! Thursday 30 July 3pm on the Wasteland Stage, which is a pretty cool stage! www.wacken.com/en/ blacktish.com

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Here's Relational Intelligence. rel-int.ai Why? Current LLMs are unexplainable, no path to efficiency, no path to scalability... How? The same structure governs quantum mechanics and natural language, and cognition more generally. We use this to build AI whose reasoning you can trust. When? Now!

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Long overdue, but Black Tish now has a webpage, with a little (actually a lot) help from Claude. www.blacktish.com

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Finally got my hands on the Greek copy of Quantum in Pictures. Very proud of that, as there is the pre-Socratic connection. It is beautifully done.

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The world needs opposites to get along, work together...music is a good way to do so.

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Short news bite on Quantum Guitar by FQxI.

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Will be giving this talk this Thursday. Free online attendance. Register here: airtable.com/appmlaNdmr67...

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Here it is, the first ever quantum symphony, "Quantum Universe", composed by "Kazakh Mozart" Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin, with him in Cathedral Organ, and me on Quantum Guitar. "Quantum" in two ways: Abdyssagin's book "Quantum Mechanics and Avant-Garde Music", and my Quantum Guitar. youtu.be/1Dl8BGqTuE0

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Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin ‘Quantum Universe’ Symphony for Organ, Quantum Guitar and Electronics (2025)

YouTube video by Oxford Philosophy of Physics

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

We'll be playing at Wacken Open Air this year, on the wasteland stage, also VIP-premiering quantum guitar for the press. blacktish.com

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Check out this interview of renowned data-sculpture artist Refik Anadol and myself on quantum art, by Firgun Ventures' Kris Naudts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnL_...

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Ep2 | Entangled: Art, AI & Quantum, with Refik Anadol & Professor Bob Coecke

YouTube video by Time To Talk Quantum

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Trailer for our concerts at Oxford's Quantum Centenary with "the Kazakh Mozart", virtuoso musician and composer Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin. youtu.be/4e_Gg-BZwo0

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Oxford Quantum Centenary Conference Concerts Highlights: Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and Bob Coecke

YouTube video by Oxford Philosophy of Physics

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Check out this course, if you want to learn about our quantum pictures! Link: neurossance.com/courses/quan...

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Next week I'll be giving a talk and a quantum guitar concert at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, near Berlin, for their Year of Quantum celebrations. Maybe CU there, in person, or on Zoom. www.einsteinforum.de/tagung/von-u...

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Einstein Forum – Von unscharfen Größen und verschränkten Teilchen Aufbruch ins nächste Quantenjahrhundert

Von unscharfen Größen und verschränkten Teilchen Aufbruch ins nächste Quantenjahrhundert

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Our first ZX-calculus paper was written in 2007 in the Alborz mountains in Iran. Let's hope that the Iranian people can get what "they" want. (RIP Hassan) www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.c...

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Free concert this Wednesday downstairs at the Wheatsheaf at Oxford in support of East Oxford Primary School, featuring my band Black Tish. www.facebook.com/events/18293...

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WALL + Masterdog + Black Tish + Jokers Parade + Barrelhaus

Event in Oxford, United Kingdom by Buried In Smoke Promotions and 3 others on Wednesday, December 10 2025

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Our "short" paper on our 2023 experiment with secondary school students doing an Oxford University postgraduate exam is out now. The results were reported in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2023... arxiv.org/abs/2512.00141

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High schoolers excel at Oxford quantum course using pictorial mathematics

We are at the dawn of the second quantum revolution, where our ability to create and control individual quantum systems is poised to drive transformative advancements in basic science, computation, an...

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Here is the recording of my talk at the Oxford Quantum Centenary Conference. There are many other very interesting talks as well, all available through the Philosophy of Physics's YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/@OxfordPhilo... www.youtube.com/live/t69o-8e...

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Oxford Quantum Centenary Conference Day 2

YouTube video by Oxford Philosophy of Physics

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Now ongoing in Oxford. All being filmed, including the two concerts, one of which was yesterday, orchestral organ + quantum guitar. Worked out well it seems.

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My online `relatorium' aka `compassionate mathematics' talk - some interesting observations in the discussion regarding how the passage to a relational perspective as in Quantum Picturalism, or @rovelli.bsky.social, helps achieving inclusivity of any form. www.youtube.com/live/Oz5dmtI...

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Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics, now for real!

YouTube video by Relatorium

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Being in industrial music, quite something to have a show advertised by the Faculty of Music of the University of Oxford, which is traditionally very traditional. Free subsidised show, come and see us. www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/rakhat...

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Glad that I can brag about this paper as co-author as my contribution has been minimal. Takes ZX-calculus to a new level by connecting quantum foundations research, it's initial motivation, to condensed matter physics and (loop) quantum gravity research. arxiv.org/abs/2511.06012

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Beyond Penrose tensor diagrams with the ZX calculus: Applications to quantum computing, quantum machine learning, condensed matter physics, and quantum gravity

We introduce the Spin-ZX calculus as an elevation of Penrose's diagrams and associated binor calculus to the level of a formal diagrammatic language. The power of doing so is illustrated by the variet...

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FQxI @fqxi.org · 11/11/2025

Two free quantum music concerts in Oxford with Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and @coecke.bsky.social, as part of the “What Quantum?” centenary events. Admittance is free, but spaces are limited. More information: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165314/...

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I'll be given a talk this Friday the 14th, 16.30pm UK time. It will be live streamed. Check here: researchseminars.org/talk/CompMat...

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and myself will be playing two concerts in Oxford, 20 and 23 November. They are both world-premiere's.

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Will be talking at this amazing event in Oxford, celebrating 100 years of Quantum. Scroll down to the satellite events at the bottom of the page for some musical world premiere's! More on those later... www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...

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Oxford Quantum Centenary Conference: What Quantum?

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

In Palermo for 3rd Int. Symp. on Quantum Computing & Musical Creativity, where I will do a Quantum Guitar demo, present a paper on it, and also present the paper with Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin on a new music notation based on ZX-calculus, which we call Quantum Concept Music. 2025.isqcmc.org/program.html

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3rd International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Musical Creativity, Palermo, Palazzo Steri, University of Palermo, Italy, October 28-29, 2025

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

If you happen to be in Oxford today, we are hosting the Basil Hiley memorial at Wolfson College, Oxford. All welcome! Speakers are Peter Van REETH, P Calum ROBSON, Tim PALMER FRS, Lindon NEIL, Peter BRADSHAW, Bob COECKE, Roger PENROSE

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In four weeks in NY I will be talking about quantum-enabled responsible AI. A few days earlier in Toronto-Fields and a few days later at Perdue Uni too. www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/2... iqtevent.com/quantumai/ engineering.purdue.edu/IE/PurdueQua...

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Not only at the athletics world cup in Tokyo are new world records set. This is for our H2 quantum computer.

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

crowdfunder.co.uk

Roger Penrose & Friends Appeal for Unique Archive

To digitise and restore the worlds largest collection of audio and visual recordings within the scientific community, spanning over 50 years

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

New paper, somewhat different. arxiv.org/abs/2509.04526

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

In back is my old flat in Brussels (lower of the two sticking out on right). I departed in 2001 with Mazda to Oxford, to never come back. 1st Black Tish album was recorded there. bigtakeover.com/recordings/b... Famous enough square on Boulevard Henry Poincare:. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_...

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Hamza Waseem @quantumfoundations.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Happy to finally announce this long-overdue paper. TL;DR: We demonstrated that using our diagrammatic formalism, called Quantum Picturalism, high school students can excel at the University of Oxford's postgrad-level quantum exam. More details in this 82-page paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01013

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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Hi, I am here! Will mostly post about Quantum Foundations/Computing and Quantum Music.

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