John Martinis

I was a lowly graduate student, so I could hear a little bit.

But what I learned from this, it was a great question.

And something that would be kind of worth doing, you know, for your life, your life work, because it's so deep and so interesting and maybe practical and the like.

So that really motivated me.

Yeah, that's right.

And I would say soon after that, other people in the field got a little bit more specific and showed how you would do it.

And then it was in the early 1990s, maybe five years later.

that Peter Shor came up with this factoring algorithm to solve a, you know, a real world problem with it.

Yeah.

And it took a while to people figure out.

It was very abstract and, you know, people weren't quite sure what to do.

But like I said, I could see that in all of the crowd around Feynman asking him questions, that this was the most...

you know, most interesting fundamental question, you know, how to combine quantum mechanics with doing computation.

It's really amazing.

Yeah.

So my career path was, of course, quantum computing was getting developed.

And it took me a while to really get go all in on it.

Okay.

Yeah.

So what happened is Michelle Devereux was from France, from CEA France.