<div dir="ltr">Yeah, I wrote that last email too fast out of necessity and it's sloppy. My apologies to all. <div><br></div><div>But the sources are rock solid. That's the important thing</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 9:58 AM Pam Baker <<a href="mailto:bakercom1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bakercom1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Perhaps you can find a nearby (or reasonably so) location to check out quantum computers either in the <a href="https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/network/overview/" target="_blank">IBM Q Network</a> (with many academic institutions as members/partners). Also, check out this Fortune Magazine/<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRaEvXF4YBg" target="_blank">IBM video</a> for a quick look at some of their Q computer prototypes. <div><br></div><div>Also, any member of the <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/quantum-network" target="_blank">Microsoft's Quantum Network</a> can likely show you a lot in the way of Q computer prototypes. Many are academic institutions. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www-ctp.mit.edu/research-quantum.html" target="_blank">MIT also does a lot of work with quantum computing</a>.</div><div><br></div><div> I work with many of these sources in my reporting on AI, quantum information, and quantum computing reporting. I've found them all to be helpful albeit guarded about their specific approaches to Q computing. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 10:35 PM Sally Wiener Grotta <<a href="mailto:sally@sallywienergrotta.com" target="_blank">sally@sallywienergrotta.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'd love to connect with someone at one of the Philadelphia universities <br>
who is working on quantum computing, because I'd like to see one. I need <br>
to be able to describe it physically, as well as the human interaction <br>
with it.<br>
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Of course, Saqi won't be like anything I could see at a university <br>
today, but it would give me a feeling for what I need to build in my <br>
fictional lab.<br>
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Thanks, Sally<br>
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On 2019/06/05 21:25, Daniel Dern wrote:<br>
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Sally Wiener Grotta wrote:<br>
>> Thanks for the reminder, Daniel. It's more a philosophical story than <br>
>> tech. So, I don't believe that will be an issue. But it good to be <br>
>> reminded about that.<br>
> <br>
> That said, I, too, can offer intros to a quantum computing<br>
> researcher... a friend of my college roommate's son (who's out of<br>
> college and working in gov tech) has a friend (who we met when<br>
> visiting them a year or so ago) is a quantum researcher, I think at<br>
> some east coast u.<br>
> <br>
> DPD<br>
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