The Future of Quantum Computing with Michele Mosca
Practical quantum computing is close. That brings opportunity, but also cybersecurity risks. Quantum cryptography expert Michele Mosca walks us through the state of the field.
Michele Mosca is a research associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute. He was one of the institute’s first researchers when it was launched 25 years ago. He is also a founder and former deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, where he is a mathematics professor.
Mosca is a pioneer in the design of quantum algorithms, grappling with both the potential of quantum computers and the security challenges they pose. The first experimental implementation of a quantum algorithm on a physical system was achieved in 1998 by Mosca and Jonathan A. Jones at Oxford University. They successfully executed Deutsch's algorithm using a 2-qubit Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) quantum computer.