It was a beautiful spring day in Boston last Saturday, April 6, when my IBM Q colleague Melissa Turesky and I headed to the Museum of Science on the Charles River. It was a special event, “NanoDays with a Quantum Leap,” and I spoke about the IBM Q quantum computing program and how people could start coding it today.
I was most happy to see how many young people were at the museum and participating in the NanoDays events. A lot of what we are doing now with quantum computing is education and I hope that exhibits like this will encourage girls and boys to learn more about the area. I’d love to have someone tell me in 10 years that the museum exhibit inspired them to pursue a quantum-related STEM career.
Since 2016, over 100,000 people have used the IBM Q Experience and they have run over 9.5M executions. A 50 qubit model of the IBM Q System One will be in residence as part of the quantum exhibit until the end of May.
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My #BCTECHSummit 2019 talk
I spoke this morning about quantum computing at #BCTECHSummit in Vancouver, British Columbia. Here are some of the points I emphasized:
- The mainstream efforts including IBM Q are universal quantum computing systems with the eventual goal of full fault tolerance.
- However, we believe “Quantum Advantage,” where we show significant improvement over classical methods and machines, may happen in the next decade, well before fault tolerance.
- Don’t say “quantum computing will.” Say it “might.” Publish your results and your measurements.
- Since May, 2016, IBM has hosted the IBM Q Experience, the most advanced and most widely used quantum cloud service. Over 100,000 users have executed close to 9 million quantum circuits. There is no charge for using the IBM Q Experience.
- Qiskit is the most advanced open source framework for programming a quantum computer. It has components that provide high level user libraries, low level access, APIs for connecting to quantum computers and simulators, and new measurement tools for errors and performance.
- Chemistry, AI, and cross-industry techniques such as Monte Carlo replacements are the areas that show great promise for the earliest Quantum Advantage examples.
- The IBM Q Network is built around a worldwide collection of hubs, direct partnerships, academic memberships, and startups working accelerate educations and to find the earliest use cases that demonstrate Quantum Advantage.
- Last week IBM Q published “Cramming More Power Into a Quantum Device” that discussed the whole-system Quantum Volume measurement, how we have doubled this every year since 2017, and how we believe there is headroom to continue at this pace.
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Talk: The state of quantum computing in 2019
Here’s a video of the session that my IBM Q colleague Anthony J. Annunziata and I led at IBM Think in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago.
If I seem slightly breathless, I was. I had about 4 minutes to get from a client meeting in Moscone North to the speaking venue in Moscone South.
Click on the image to go to the video.
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Talking about quantum computing and the IBM Q System One
Here’s a video I filmed with Fortune about some of the basic principles of quantum computing and the IBM Q System One announcement.
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Keynote: It’s Not Just the Qubits
This talk was at the Linux Foundation Open FinTech Forum in New York City in late 2018. The title refers to the number of qubits not being the only significant metric for determining the power of a quantum computer.
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Talk: Quantum Computing: Don’t Count Your Qubits Before They’re Hatched
I gave this talk at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering in 2018. It’s one of my longer talks at just over an hour but goes into more details than most of my intros.
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Talk: Quantum computing at C2 Montreal
In the spring of 2018 I traveled up to Montreal, Québec, Canada, to speak at the C2 conference. It was an unusual venue – the first place where I’ve spoken that included baking cookies as an activity. Here’s a very quick 3 minute intro to quantum computing.
