The TRUTH About Quantum Computing
Event Description
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present this lecture by Scott Aaronson:
Abstract: Yes, scalable quantum computing should actually work! Sooner than many expect, which will create a huge headache when it breaks the encryption currently used to protect the Internet. But no, we don't think quantum computing can do most of what the popular articles promise in AI and optimization and so forth. Come to this talk to learn about why!
Speaker: Scott Aaronson is Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, and founding director of its Quantum Information Center. He received his bachelor's from Cornell University and his PhD from UC Berkeley. Aaronson's research has focused mainly on the capabilities and limits of quantum computers. His first book, Quantum Computing Since Democritus, was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. He received the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award, the United States PECASE Award, the Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize in Physics, and the ACM Prize in Computing, and is a Fellow of the ACM and the AAAS and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs at Shtetl-Optimized, https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog.
Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium (SCGP 103)
Abstract: Yes, scalable quantum computing should actually work! Sooner than many expect, which will create a huge headache when it breaks the encryption currently used to protect the Internet. But no, we don't think quantum computing can do most of what the popular articles promise in AI and optimization and so forth. Come to this talk to learn about why!
Speaker: Scott Aaronson is Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, and founding director of its Quantum Information Center. He received his bachelor's from Cornell University and his PhD from UC Berkeley. Aaronson's research has focused mainly on the capabilities and limits of quantum computers. His first book, Quantum Computing Since Democritus, was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. He received the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award, the United States PECASE Award, the Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize in Physics, and the ACM Prize in Computing, and is a Fellow of the ACM and the AAAS and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs at Shtetl-Optimized, https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog.
Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium (SCGP 103)
