As a technologist, it’s vital to be curious. That is true whether or not
you’re simply beginning your profession as a junior developer or when you’re the
CTO of a Fortune 500 firm. Curiosity, and the fixed pursuit of
studying, are issues for which I’ve at all times 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 impression 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 may need a direct impression on
our companies. However there are different applied sciences which have an extended time
horizon, and regardless of many years of analysis and improvement, would possibly nonetheless
probably want many extra years of labor earlier than they’ll attain an analogous
stage of impression. As technologists, it’s our duty to additionally maintain
a watch on these developments—to study the place they’re headed, to steer
our enterprise companions towards the fitting use circumstances 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 basically change the
world round us… ultimately. However I additionally discover that there’s lots of
hype and misinformation round quantum computing, with solely a handful of
specialists actually able to debate its present state (did you catch
what I did there?). I needed to chop by way of the hype and go straight to
considered one of these specialists myself to get a greater understanding of the place
quantum computing is right this moment 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 acquired 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 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 lately had a dialog on quantum computing,
and right this moment I’d wish to share that dialog with you straight. I hope
you take pleasure in.
As John says, we’re nonetheless a great distance from realizing the true potential
of quantum computing. Nevertheless, we’re used to considering long run at
Amazon and we’re not afraid of creating huge investments sooner or later. We
imagine quantum computing will play a big position within the years to
come.
In case you’d like to listen to extra from John, you possibly can observe him on Twitter at
@preskill. In case you’d wish to study extra
about our quantum computing service, Amazon Braket, you possibly can study extra
right here.
