Dancing with Qubits: Quantum Computing and Finance update

In section 1.5 of my quantum computing book Dancing with Qubits, I discuss potential applications of the technology to financial services. An excellent survey article by my IBM Quantum colleagues is now on arXiv that updates and goes into much … Continued

How to listen to my Packt podcast about quantum computing on your phone

The Packt podcast with me talking about my quantum computing and my book Dancing with Qubits is now available. Here is how you can listen to it on your iPhone. I presume the directions for Android are similar. Open the … Continued

SoundCloud Packt podcast with me about Dancing with Qubits and #QuantumComputing

Please join Stacy Munro, Richard Gall, and me for a podcast discussion about my new book about quantum computing, Dancing with Qubits. https://soundcloud.com/packt-podcasts/quantum-computing-explained-ibms-robert-sutor-talks-about-the-new-paradigm-on-the-horizon

The Amazon Kindle version of Dancing with Qubits is now available!

I’m pleased to announce that the Amazon Kindle version of my quantum computing book Dancing with Qubits is now available! This book provides a comfortable and conversational introduction to quantum computing. I take you through the mathematics you need at … Continued

Some practical things you can do to learn about quantum computing

People often ask me “Where should I get started in order to learn about quantum computing?”. Here are several steps you can take. I work for IBM, so things I link to will often be to the IBM Quantum program. … Continued

Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: What about the eBook?

Yesterday was very exciting because I received my first printed copy of the book. There’s just something about holding a physical, printed book that you’ve labored over for many months. Others are starting to get their copies too, and I … Continued

Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: What’s in the book

This morning I awoke to a very nice email from Tom Jacob, the Project Editor for my book at Packt Publishing. He said, in part, We were able to successfully ship the book to our printers. … Congratulations on achieving … Continued

Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: Drawing quantum circuits

This entry is for people who use the LaTeX document preparation system, as I did in the book. It’s not a tutorial on LaTeX in general, but shows some techniques for drawing quantum circuits. To be direct, it’s pretty geeky … Continued

Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: My five rules for making revisions from editorial comments

Today I finished making revisions to the book based on comments from the proofreader. All told, there have been five people providing feedback and comments for how I should modify, fix, and improve the content: me the technical reviewer the … Continued

Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: The writing process – what format?

Before I discuss what and I how I wrote, let me talk about the markup of the book. By “markup” I mean the underlying format of the content that determines its structure such as the title page, table of contents, … Continued

Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: Last minute tweaks to my quantum computing book cover

With a month to go before publication, we are still making last minute tweaks to my quantum computing book Dancing with Qubits. We made two changes to the cover this week. Can you spot the differences? The old version is … Continued

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