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Cordova: Quantum computing's hard science is solved; the remaining challenge is engineering
“The hard science problems have been solved, but how do you build a superconducting qubit, and how do you Send it a radio frequency data to program it. The hard part now is is going through all the different ways that these things can be hooked together to buil…”
Cordova: Computer scientists do not yet know all quantum-solvable problem classes
“One of the surprising aspects of quantum computing is that scientists and mathematicians and computer engineers don't really know all of the problems that can be solved by a quantum computer. We just know some of them, and that's not How classical computing wo…”
Cordova: Folding@home algorithm became the primary method for protein folding
“And the interesting thing about that, at least my recollection of it, is that No one thought that algorithm would work. It didn't look anything like the previous algorithms except that it was also doing some kind of chemistry that was interesting. And then the…”
Cordova: Near-term quantum computers run in 100-microsecond bursts
“Unlike classical computers, which you can kind of run for days and weeks, Or in perhaps years at a time, quantum computers kind of run in bursts of a hundred microseconds.”
Cordova: Quantum computers search huge combinatorial spaces to replicate physical outcomes
“Quantum computers can actually search combinatorially a huge space for certain kinds of problems and actually find the real thing that nature would do.”
Cordova: Superconducting quantum circuits rely on standard semiconductor fabs
“The superconducting circuits we made are using standard semiconductor manufacturing technologies.”
Cordova: Cloud access will rapidly yield half a dozen quantum killer apps
“Building cloud access into how you get at a quantum computer will quicken the pace at which the killer apps are found instead of there being one, like there was in the early days of the PC and electronic spreadsheet, we might see a half a dozen of them pop up …”
Cordova: Quantum computers cannot store data and function purely as compute engines
“Like, you can't actually store data on these quantum computers. They're just literally, right now, just compute engines.”
Cordova: Quantum hardware will be hosted in cloud data centers, not on-premise
“So you never really, at least in the early days, want to ever put those things, on a customer site, you want to put them in a secure facility someplace and provide cloud access or remote access to them.”
Cordova: Quantum processors yield different answers on every execution run
“These quantum processors actually give you different answers every time you run them.”