Ezra's Round Table / Systems Seminar: Edward Dahl (D-Wave Systems) - 3.7 Decades of Quantum Computing
Location
Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall 253
Description
Since Richard Feynman’s suggestion in 1982 that computers built from quantum building blocks could be more powerful, there has been much research in models of quantum computing, implementations and algorithms. Shor’s discovery of a quantum factoring algorithm motivated further activity, though significant practical barriers to implementation remain. Quantum annealing has proved to be a more practical alternative and has come further in terms of applicability to real world problems. Proto-applications for this approach exist today and will come closer to economic viability with near-term improvements in qubit count, interconnectivity and control.
Bio:
Dr. Dahl received a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in computational simulation of quantum systems. He has worked with neural networks and has extensive experience in high performance and parallel computation. He is now in his eighth year with D-Wave Systems and has taught more than thirty training classes to new users of their platform. He lives near the Los Alamos National Laboratory which is one of the three customer sites for the D-Wave system.