John Martinis, Google’s head of quantum computing hardware development, resigned earlier this month after six years at the company, reported Wired. While it’s not entirely clear what happened, a possible explanation is that quantum computing is a nascent field in which disagreements over how to proceed can stall the progress of development. Martinis, who is also a physics professor at UC...
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