Created Quantum Picturalism, ZX-calculus, Categorical QM, Quantum NLP, DisCoCat/Circ, Quantum Guitar. Books: Quantum in Pictures & Picturing Quantum Processes.
Oxford
Joined June 2009
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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*:
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-pe…
Relational Intelligence in Amsterdam at Quantum Physics and Logic.
rel-int.ai/
Pretty cool that the leading German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine mentions my Quantum Guitar and my quantum-inspired Text Circuits.
"Anyone wishing to join this discussion must engage with a dynamic interplay of distinctions, comparisons, and inferences drawn from premises—all of which require precise linguistic articulation. Rarely have there been problems that have so powerfully intertwined physics and language. It is hardly surprising, then, that the singular physics adventurer Bob Coecke—who, among other things, built a quantum guitar (and even performed with it before heavy metal fans)—is now applying his physics-inspired mathematical expertise to the understanding of textual structures."
archive.ph/6Vfyt#selection-4…
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.
In Lisbon...some relief from UK heath.
fmqc-workshop.github.io/2026…
We'll soon be playing @Wacken Open Air again! Thursday 30 July 3pm on the Wasteland Stage, which is a pretty cool stage!
wacken.com/en/
blacktish.com/
We launched Relational Intelligence.
rel-int.ai/
Why? Current language models are powerful but unexplainable. For one thing, they are locked into GPUs with no path to quantum hardware, with no path to efficiency, with 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 and that maps straight onto quantum hardware as it scales. But we get advantage on classical hardware too, just by thinking quantum...
When? Now: our open-source stack is already used across academia and industry. We start by adding a layer of explainability on top of existing models before incrementally replacing black boxes with verifiable components. Down the line, we do everything from first principles, cause that's how we roll...
That's all folks, for now...
Way to go!
Quantum teleportation before university? Why not.
Our group at @UniOfHerts is running Quantum in Pictures: a free 5-day masterclass for Y12/13s, using the visual method by @coecke & @StefanoGogioso, rooted in category theory
20–24 July 2026
Apply/share: forms.office.com/e/nQCJ2s6AJ…
Long overdue, but Black Tish now has a webpage, with a little (actually a lot) help from Claude.
blacktish.com/
bOb cOeCke retweeted
Excited to announce I just started as CTO of Relational Intelligence 🎉
I’ll be working with @coecke @gio_defel and @TommSalvatori on a new paradigm for AI, don’t hesitate to get in touch! rel-int.ai
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.
bOb cOeCke retweeted
A brand new instrument called the “quantum guitar” performed alongside one of the oldest instruments, the organ, at one of the most beautiful chapels in Oxford.
Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and Bob Coecke (@coecke) performed Abdyssagin’s ‘Quantum Universe’ at Merton College.
Watch via the link below.
The world needs opposites to get along...music is a good way to do so.
Industrial electronics and classical piano on the same stage at the Holywell Music Room, one of the oldest concert venues in Europe.
Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin, Bob Coecke (@coecke) and Bruce Warner closed out the Oxford Quantum Centenary Conference.
Watch via the link below!
@UniofOxford @OxfordPhysics @WolfsonCollege
Short news bite on Quantum Guitar by FQxI.
A brand new instrument called the “quantum guitar” performed alongside one of the oldest instruments, the organ, at one of the most beautiful chapels in Oxford.
Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and Bob Coecke (@coecke) performed Abdyssagin’s ‘Quantum Universe’ at Merton College.
qspace.fqxi.org/videos/565/r…
#QuantumMusic #Oxford
Please see below the call for papers for the 2nd Quantum AI conference in Indiana, this summer August 14-16. I will be chairing the quantum NLP track.
Last year it was great in many ways, with lots of high-profile participants, covering both academia and industry, from both foundations and applications, and there also were many very strong students.
Given that local organiser Damir Cavar promised me that they would also built a quantum guitar according to my template, I may be doing a show there as well.
qnlp.ai/
Will be giving this talk this Thursday. Free online attendance. Register here: airtable.com/appmlaNdmr67gQU…
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