The Future is Quantum with Dr. Krysta Svore

The Future is Quantum with Dr. Krysta Svore If someone mentions quantum computing, and you find yourself outwardly nodding your head, but secretly shaking it, you're in good company: some of the world's smartest people admit they don't really understand it either. Fortunately, some of the world's other smartest people, like Dr. Krysta Svore, Principal Research Manager of the Microsoft Quantum – or QuArC – group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, actually DO understand quantum computing, and are working hard to make it a reality. Today, Dr. Svore shares her passion for quantum algorithms and their potential to solve some of the world's biggest problems, explains why Microsoft's topological quantum bit – or qubit – is a game changer for quantum computing, and assures us that, although qubits live in dilution refrigerators at temperatures near absolute zero, quantum researchers can still sit in the comfort of their offices and work with the computer programmer's equivalent of Schroedinger's Cat. Krysta Svore: The problems we're looking at solving with a quantum computer are the problems that, today, require age-of-the-universe time scales. I'm not going to be around for that solution. Some of these problems literally require billions and billions and billions of years to solve. And on a quantum computer, what we've shown in some recent research, is that you can solve some of these problems in a matter of say, weeks, days, hours, seconds. I'll be around for those solutions. A show that brings you closer to the cutting edge of technology research and the scientists behind it. If someone mentions quantum computing and you find yourself outwardly nodding your head but secretly shaking it, you're in good company. Some of the world's smartest people admit they don't really understand it either. Fortunately, some of the world's other smartest people, like Dr. Krysta Svore, Principle Research Manager of the Microsoft Quantum, or QuArC, Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, actually do understand quantum computing and are working hard to make it a reality. Today, Dr. Svore shares her passion for quantum algorithms and their potential to solve some of the world's biggest problems, explains why Microsoft's topological quantum bit – or qubit – is a game-changer for quantum computing and assures us that although qubits live in dilution refrigerators at temperatures near absolute zero, quantum researchers can still sit in the comfort of their offices and work with the computer programmers equivalent of Schrödinger's Cat. Your research revolves around quantum algorithms.