IBM Research
Quantum Experiences: A Q&A with Caltech’s Christine Corbett Moran
July 27, 2016 | Written by: Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
Categorized: IBM Research
Share this post:
Dr. Christine Corbett Moran travels the world in search of challenging problems to solve. The National Science Foundation’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology earned a PhD in Zurich, taught mobile development and entrepreneurship in Manila, and now calls Antarctica home while conducting experiments on the South Pole Telescope. It’s here where she discovered something else to experiment with – IBM’s Quantum Experience.
The quantum computer on the cloud gives anyone the ability to run algorithms on its five-qubit processor. You just need an internet connection. Something that Corbett Moran, living in -50 to -100 degrees F, doesn’t always have. So, she published a paper, Quintuple: A Python 5-qubit quantum simulator to facilitate quantum computing, on how to test algorithms offline, without needing the Quantum Experience online.
“I could work in my favorite programming language (Python) offline, prototyping ideas to run on IBM QE for when I was online … [and] I thought it might be useful to others, whether learners or researchers,” Corbett Moran said.
Read IBM Research’s Q&A with Corbett Moran, where she discusses her paper, her challenges, and the places she has yet to visit.
National Science Foundation's, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology
Meet the Newest IBM Fellows
Since the first class of IBM Fellows in 1962, IBM has honored its top scientists, engineers and programmers, who are chosen for this distinction by the CEO. Among the best and brightest of IBM’s global workforce are 12 new IBM Fellows who join 293 of their peers who have been so recognized over the last […]
How IBM is Advancing AI Once Again & Why it Matters to Your Business
There have been several seminal moments in the recent history of AI. In the mid-1990s, IBM created the Deep Blue system that played and beat world chess champion, Garry Kasparov in a live tournament. In 2011, we unveiled Watson, a natural language question and answering system, and put it on the hit television quiz show, […]
Amplifying the Power of Debate with AI
French essayist, Joseph Joubert, wrote in 1896: “It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.” For the last 15 years, I’ve led the nation’s most popular debate organization, ProCon.org. While our public charity has served more than 180 million people since 2004, our obsession with […]