Getting a qubit to operate like a computer seems impossible, but maybe that means we’re just making the wrong assumptions. Fermilab and other labs are looking at what you can do with mid-scale noisy quantum. People are talking about different technologies like quantum computing and neuromorphic computing, but both are 15 years out. There’s a physical limit that we're approaching with the materials we have, the leakage currents. The physics driving the silicon chip manufacturing is reaching limits. There’s no way we can reach our science goals unless we can solve some of the challenges that are coming up. We’ve managed to stay ahead of the curve, and when you’re in the thick of the battle you don’t realize how far you’ve come.īuilding on that success is exciting. The Large Hadron Collider experiments have needed a worldwide network of interconnecting centers that all cooperate and satisfy the needs of their high-data throughput users. I think for software and computing, we’ve been really successful over the years, especially in high-energy physics. By graduate school I was completely determined. The internship gave me a taste of what this career would be like if I were to continue in this direction, so that made me think differently when I got to graduate school. I did well in that class, and the professor needed someone to come out to Fermilab because two of their graduate students were getting married to each other. I took the sophomore year electronics class. So they placed me in a more advanced physics class with a smaller class size and a teacher who knew how to challenge a class. He was very surprised at this young woman just standing up for herself and saying, “I don’t care if you don’t give me the credit, I want to be in this advanced class because this one is boring me to tears.” I went to the head of the math department. I had done a full year of college-level calculus when I was a senior in high school. My first year of college, they placed me into a set of classes that weren’t very challenging for me. I finished the whole year in half a year. When I went to high school, I knew I wanted to be taking calculus by my senior year, so I talked my way into getting into the most advanced algebra class they offered. But when it came to the math contests, I was always picked first. When it came to the playground, I was always picked last. He made it cool to be good at math and science. Moore, who was very influential in my life. But in sixth grade, I had one particular science and math teacher, Mr. I was the oldest of four kids, and my parents didn’t have time to tutor me, and so relative to a lot of my classmates when I started school, I was behind. I was a young, impressionable kid when I first saw “ Powers of Ten.” The concept that there were dimensions to the world that we couldn't see, or that there were things out there that we couldn’t understand because we can only see so many stars when we look up, the idea that the cosmos could be thought about in a whole, organic sort of way-all of that was new and fascinating to me when I was a kid.
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