<img class="aligncenter wp-image-21887 size-full" src="https://ancient.cybermaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/William-Zeng.png" alt="get to the first application" width="1200" height="800" /> <blockquote> <p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body" style="text-align: left;"><span class="JsGRdQ">"As far as we can tell now, in order to get to the first application, we're going to need error correction of some kind. </span><span class="JsGRdQ">In order to have error correction at scale, we're going to need to scale up the imperfect qubit systems that we have today."<strong> William Zeng - Head of Quantum Research, Goldman Sachs</strong></span></p> </blockquote> <strong>Source: <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/quantum-computing-meets-cloud-computing-d-wave-says-its-5000-qubit-system-is-ready-for-business/">ZDnet</a> - <span class="JsGRdQ">As far as we can tell now, in order to get to the first application...</span></strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About William Zeng:</strong></span> <p style="text-align: justify;">Quantum computing may be the next major computing revolution, and Zeng is at the forefront. He led the development of one of the world's first quantum programming stacks, which is already up and running and serving customers. His contributions to the quantum computing include new algorithms, communications protocols, and new architectures for quantum processors.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">He works to make quantum computing useful, sooner, and for more people. His tools are quantum computer architecture and quantum software/algorithm engineering.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">He runs a quantum technology research group at Goldman Sachs as well as the unitary fund, a non-profit research group helping create a quantum technology industry that benefits the most people.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Previously, he was at <a href="http://rigetti.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rigetti</a> quantum computing, where he was product lead for building and launching rigetti's quantum cloud service on top of its superconducting QPUs and for the forest quantum programming toolkit, including the open source libraries <a href="https://ancient.cybermaterial.com/tool-pyquil/">pyquil </a>and grove. His quantum instruction set of choice is <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03355" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quil</a>. His phd thesis at oxford applies abstract methods (mainly from categorical algebra) to the study of quantum algorithms and protocols. Before that he worked with superconducting qubit systems at yale and eth zurich.</p>