2024-12-10
Today in Nature, the first experimental demonstration that scaling up a quantum error-correcting code makes it better. It's a critical step on the path to useful quantum computers. Read more in @QuantaMagazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
HPCwire
Google says it made a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap
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2024-06-28
New in Quanta: @yasemin_sap's tour de force deep dive into the past, present, and future of protein folding. Check it out! https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
Quanta Magazine
An in-depth look at the development of Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, which had the biggest AI breakthrough in science by accurately predicting protein structures
When Google's public relations machine churned the news out to the world, the media went wild. Headlines claimed that AlphaFold2 “will change everything.”
2023-03-22
Today Bob Metcalfe was named winner of the Turing Award for inventing Ethernet, the ubiquitous local networking technology. Read about Ethernet's origin story, the underlying mathematics, and what Metcalfe is up to now in my latest @QuantaMagazine story https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
New York Times
The Association for Computing Machinery awards Bob Metcalfe the Turing Award for his work on Ethernet at the Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s
In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network.