Scott Aaronson is Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, and director of its Quantum Information Center.

He was also my professor for a class of quantum computing.

He's the author of one of the most interesting blogs on the internet: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

Buy his book on Quantum Computing since Democritus: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Comput...

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

0:33 Journey through high school and college

12:37 Early work

19:15 Why quantum computing took so long

33:30 Contributions from outside academia

38:18 Busy beaver function

53:50 New quantum algorithms

1:03:30 Clusters

1:06:23 Complexity and economics

1:13:26 Creativity

1:24:07 Advice to young people

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