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Scott Aaronson

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What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?

By Scott Aaronson
June 8, 2021
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To understand what quantum computers can do — and what they can’t — avoid falling for overly simple explanations.

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Scott Aaronson is David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary research areas are quantum computing and computational complexity theory. He wrote the semipopular book Quantum Computing Since Democritus and blogs at Shtetl-Optimized.

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