Feb 28, 2020
Denise Ruffner, Chief Business Officer, Cambridge Quantum Computing, discusses quantum computing.
Denise Ruffner, as Chief
Business Officer at Cambridge Quantum Computing, is a valuable
member of the company’s executive leadership. Ruffner coordinates
and oversees Cambridge Quantum Computing’s business development
activities that build upon and support their active growth agenda,
client development, corporate strategy, and important
relationships.
Denise earned her master’s degree in Neurobiology and Molecular
Biology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Podcast Points:
Ruffner discusses the details of
her company, Cambridge Quantum Computing, and what quantum
computing really is all about. She talks about the development of
software for quantum computers, and the security devices they
develop that can protect against quantum computers potentially
breaking security environments.
She explains the power of these quantum computer juggernauts, and
how they will have the power to break through standard computer
encryption safety walls. So companies that hold sensitive data need
to start thinking about how they can protect confidential data.
Ruffner explains their projects in development that use quantum
physics to create non-hackable environments.
Expanding on her
discussion, Ruffner talks about the scientists and teams involved
in various projects in quantum finance and more at Cambridge
Quantum Computing. She provides an overview of some of the projects
and products she finds extremely interesting. She discusses
t|ket⟩™ which is their software package that allows
you to write quantum algorithms on top of it, and ultimately
enables users to move their software and run it on different
devices. As she states, there is a race in the quantum computer
industry, and operating software can be quite varied, thus
t|ket⟩™ provides a platform to move software and run
algorithms on different devices seamlessly.
t|ket⟩™ translates machine independent algorithms
into truly executable circuits, and thereby optimizes for physical
qubit layout, all the while reducing the total number of required
operations.
Continuing, Ruffner discusses quantum volume and the details of it.
Wrapping up, Ruffner discusses some of the scientific problems that
can be addressed with quantum computing, and the complex
computational problems that still cannot be solved even with
supercomputers, and how quantum computing can help.