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 this milestone! As I’ve mentioned before, my book was prepared using LaTeX and not Microsoft…
Tag: quantum computing
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 for LaTeX people. An early decision I had to make was how to draw quantum…
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 project editor the development editor the proof reader My editing started as soon as I…
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, parts, chapters, sections, paragraphs, bibliography, and the index, along with font styles and sizes. In…
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 the first image, the new version is the second: How do you interpret the change…
Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: Let me preface my remarks with …
Way back in 1992, Springer-Verlag published my first book Axiom: The Scientific Computation System, co-authored with the late Richard D. Jenks. Since then I’ve thought of writing other books, but work and life in general caused enough inertia that I never got around to it. I first got involved with IBM’s quantum computing effort in…
My Visual Studio Code extensions for LaTeX and Python
I’m in the final stages of writing a book about quantum computing using LaTeX and I also do a lot of Python programming when I get a chance. A couple of years ago, I decided to try using the Visual Studio Code editor and I just love it. I’ve used dozens of programming editors in…
Bloomberg Radio interview
I had a great time talking to Lisa Abramowicz at Bloomberg Radio in New York City this morning about quantum computing and IBM Q. You can listen to a recording of it online. IBM Q Wants You To Try Out Its Online Quantum Computer
Recap: NanoDays with a Quantum Leap at the Museum of Science, Boston
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…
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,…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Math and Analytics at IBM Research: 50+ Years
Soon after I arrived back in IBM Research last July after 13 years away in the Software Group and Corporate, I was shown a 2003 edition of the IBM Journal of Research and Development that was dedicated to the Mathematical Sciences group at 40. From that, I and others assumed that this year, 2013, was…
