professor christopher monroe talks about -- knows extensive expertise in the former. i'm here to talk about the increasingly important role the computer scientists must take. historical funding in theoretical software and quantum devices has created a chasm between the software, which assumes large, perfect hardware, and real hardware that is small and unreliable at this point. nsf has recently recognized this issue, supplementing their hardware initiative quantum leap with a stack program that requires an interdisciplinary team to works to bridge this gap. one gap is in software development. there is a difference between a quantum algorithm and software that can solve a problem. bridging this gap requires interdisciplinary teams. deep expertise is necessary to figure out how to modify software that works in one specific context to another. much more so in quantum computing than in traditional computing. if this were furniture construction, what we have right now is piles of wood, screws and nails. an expert needs to figure out how to use those to create useful furnit

cleaning machines that take advantage of these phenomenon and you heard a great example from christopher monroe and they allow us to suffer developers to solve this with a different kind of mathematics, quantum math it's much more efficiently than we ever could on classical computers. our mission is simple quantum computers allowed us to solve some of the most valuable competition the problems that exist today. these new quantum solutions benefit new americans in ways we might not ever be aware of. globally the race is on to by quantum computing health science and pharmacology in finance and insurance, defense and national security we want our applications to the first apps in the quantum app store. looking forward to the quantum computers that are likely to be commercially available over the next decade there are three classes of application that become possible in the near term. the first are optimization problems like logistics and transport routing, financial portfolios and second is machine learning can accelerate most computational -- to detect patterns and data sets. the first is an comi

christopher monroe, chief scientist and founder of ion q and professor of physics at the university of maryland. dr. diana franklin, professor and director of the computer science at the university of chicago, and mr. michael brett. ceo of q-brick. so again we appreciate your being here today and dr. putnam. are you recognized for five minutes for your opening statement if you would, just press that microphone and pull it close to you and we'll get started. thank you. >> thank you so much, chairman and congresswomen and congressmen. >> nanotronices does not make quantum computers, we the enabler of technologies and companies that with us strive to revolutionize the way information can be transformed. we've provided some of the world's largest companies and smaller entrepreneurial innovators with the tools of modern computation and imaging. we work with those that build the most advanced materials and microelectron microelectronics, nanotropics achieves this in the only way we see feasible for the continued exponential progression of technology. which is through artificially intelligent

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