Anonymous wrote:Michel H. Devoret is listed as Yale and UCSB
Anonymous wrote:All three profs worked at Berkeley when the research was done in the 1980s. Today, Nobel Prize in Chemistry was also awarded to a professor at Berkeley.
So far quantum computers have 0 useful applications besides grifting. Blockchains can timestamp things.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:First AI, now quantum computing. What's next, blockchain?
Hey, now. AI and quantum computers have more useful applications than grifting.
Anonymous wrote:All three winners of today’s 2025 Nobel Prize in physics are faculty at the University of California. The Nobel Prize committee honored John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.”
John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley)
Michel H. Devoret (University of California, Santa Barbara)
John M. Martinis (University of California, Santa Barbara)
This work has proved foundational to the development of quantum computers, which have the potential to solve problems that today’s most powerful computers never could. Quantum computers have tremendous potential to advance fields such as drug discovery, cybersecurity, agriculture and energy.
Anonymous wrote:First AI, now quantum computing. What's next, blockchain?
Anonymous wrote:So great for U.S. science, and so sad to think that the U.S. won't attract such talent in the future. (Two of these three immigrated to the U.S. only post-Ph.D.) In fact, 'attract' isn't even the right word here: the U.S. is now actively blocking the immigration of future Nobel winners.
Anonymous wrote:So great for U.S. science, and so sad to think that the U.S. won't attract such talent in the future. (Two of these three immigrated to the U.S. only post-Ph.D.) In fact, 'attract' isn't even the right word here: the U.S. is now actively blocking the immigration of future Nobel winners.