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foreword
For most of its history, quantum computing was a field for physicists—perhaps a few having a proclivity for computer science, but not necessarily so. The popular textbook, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, by Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L. Chuang, is still considered the go-to textbook, and was written by two quantum physicists. To be sure, computer scientists have always been around, but some theoreticians wear how few lines of code they have written as a badge of honor. This is the quantum world myself, Kaiser, and Granade came of age in. I could easily shake my fist at the new cohort of students and yell, “When I was your age, we didn’t write code—we choked on chalk dust!”
I met Chris Granade while we were ...
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