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Advanced Computing, AI/ML, Chips, and Extended Reality

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If you’re not an industry insider, you may not be aware that last summer the U.N. declared 2025 to be the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. They made this move to honor the 100 years from the ‘discovery’ of quantum mechanics. Of course this is a bit disingenuous and we don’t want to bore our readers with too much historical minutiae.

An irresponsibly brief history of quantum science and technology

While 1925 was the year that Werner Heisenberg published his Umdeutung (Reinterpretation) paper “On the quantum-theoretical reinterpretation of kinematical and mechanical relationships” in the German journal Zeitschrift fur Physik. That as good of a start-point as any, really, to claim for quantum S&T.

In reality, of course, Heisenberg was building on the scientific work of others for some time (e.g., Max Planck's quantum hypothesis in 1900 or Albert Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect in 1905). We can invoke Thomas Kuhn here, who in his work “On …