4. Future of Technology: Quantum Learning - Present & Future

In the third episode of this mini-series on the Future of Technology, we will hear from Vint Cerf, Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist at GOOGLE, and widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” and Alexandre Blais, Professor & Scientific Director of the Quantum Institute at UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE. Vint and Alexandre will walk us through the challenges and opportunities that Quantum Learning presents. They will define Quantum Learning and explore: how can its development impact society as a whole? What are the challenges of making Quantum Machine Learning (QML) a reality?

Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist, GOOGLE
In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services from Google. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world.

Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. In April 2008, Cerf and Kahn received the prestigious Japan Prize.

Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet.

Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA.

Prof. Alexandre Blais, Physics Professor & Scientific Director of the Quantum Institute, UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE
Alexandre Blais is a professor of physics at the Université de Sherbrooke and Scientific Director of the Institut quantique at the same institution. His research focusses on superconducting quantum circuits for quantum information processing and microwave quantum optics. After completing a PhD at the Université de Sherbrooke in 2002, he was a postdoc at Yale University from 2003 to 2005 where he participated in the development of circuit quantum electrodynamics, a leading quantum computer architecture. Since then, his theoretical work as continued to have an impact in academic and industrial laboratories worldwide. 

Alexandre is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Guggenheim Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a member of CIFAR’s Quantum Information Science program and of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. His research contributions have earned him a number of academic awards, including NSERC’s Doctoral Prize, NSERC’s Steacie Prize, the Canadian Association of Physicists’ Herzberg and Brockhouse Medals, the Prix Urgel-Archambault from the Association francophone pour le savoir, the Rutherford Memorial Medal of the Royal Society of Canada,  as well as a teaching award from the Université de Sherbrooke.

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