As a technologist, it’s necessary to be curious. That is true whether or not
you’re simply beginning your profession as a junior developer or if you happen to’re the
CTO of a Fortune 500 firm. Curiosity, and the fixed pursuit of
studying, are issues for which I’ve all the time devoted time.
Up to now few many years, we’ve seen improvements in know-how transfer at a
staggering tempo, with many of those developments having an influence on the
world round us seemingly in a single day. With the sheer variety of new
applied sciences being developed, it may be daunting to maintain up. In a world
that strikes as rapidly as ours, it’s simple to prioritize studying about
the applied sciences which can be right here now and might need an instantaneous influence on
our companies. However there are different applied sciences which have an extended time
horizon, and regardless of many years of analysis and growth, may nonetheless
probably want many extra years of labor earlier than they’ll attain the same
degree of influence. As technologists, it’s our accountability to additionally preserve
a watch on these developments—to be taught the place they’re headed, to steer
our enterprise companions towards the precise use instances for them, and even to
assist form what they develop into.
Quantum computing is one such know-how. I discover the very concept of
quantum computing fascinating. It takes pc science—the {hardware}
and software program that we created within the pc business—and blends in
the basics of nature, physics, and different noticed sciences. I
imagine quantum computing is an space that may essentially change the
world round us… finally. However I additionally discover that there’s lots of
hype and misinformation round quantum computing, with solely a handful of
specialists really able to debate its present state (did you catch
what I did there?). I wished to chop via the hype and go straight to
certainly one of these specialists myself to get a greater understanding of the place
quantum computing is immediately and the place it’s headed sooner or later.
Introducing, Dr. John Preskill.
Dr. John Preskill is a pioneer within the subject of quantum computing. He’s
the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics on the
California Institute of Expertise, the place he’s additionally the Director of the
Institute for Quantum Info and Matter. Preskill obtained his
Ph.D. in physics in 1980 from Harvard, and has been a member of the
Caltech college since 1983. He’s additionally an Amazon Scholar, serving to lead
our efforts on the just lately opened AWS Middle for Quantum
Computing,
the place we’ve launched into a journey to construct a fault-tolerant quantum
pc. John and I just lately had a dialog on quantum computing,
and immediately I’d wish to share that dialog with you instantly. I hope
you get pleasure from.
As John says, we’re nonetheless a great distance from realizing the true potential
of quantum computing. Nonetheless, we’re used to pondering long run at
Amazon and we’re not afraid of constructing large investments sooner or later. We
imagine quantum computing will play a major position within the years to
come.
Should you’d like to listen to extra from John, you’ll be able to comply with him on Twitter at
@preskill. Should you’d wish to be taught extra
about our quantum computing service, Amazon Braket, you’ll be able to be taught extra
right here.