Mind the Gap: Challenges and Opportunities in Closing the Algorithms-to-Devices Gap in Quantum Computing

Speaker: Professor Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University
Series: The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science
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Abstract: From its initial proposal, Quantum Computing (QC) has had captivating potential, and scientists have worked on advancing toward that potential. QC has now reached an interesting and important inflection point. The Algorithms-to-Devices gap in QC refers to the orders of magnitude difference between the resource quantity/quality needed by QC algorithms, and what has been successfully built today. Computing research can help QC systems close this gap, by develop the crucial intermediate tool flows and hybrid classical-quantum techniques that can move towards practical quantum utility. I will discuss our recent advances in these topic areas, and more broadly advocate for the role that computer scientists must play for QC to reach its full potential.

Biography: Margaret Martonosi is the W. M. Addy ’82 University Professor at Princeton University, where she has been on the faculty since 1994. Her research area is computer architecture, with contributions to both classical and quantum hardware and software systems. Martonosi is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of IEEE and ACM. In 2021, she received computer architecture’s highest honor, the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award, for her work in power-efficient computer architecture.

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