Quantum computers need programmers IBM
Quantum computers, which promise to revolutionise everything from chemistry to cancer research, aren鈥檛 quite ready for the mainstream yet 鈥 but that hasn鈥檛 prevented the emergence of a new breed of quantum software developers.
鈥淲riting a program for a quantum computer used to mean getting a PhD,鈥 says . He would know 鈥 his Grover鈥檚 algorithm, created in 1996 for searching a database with a quantum computer, was one of the first pieces of quantum software. At that time, there were no quantum computers that could actually run it, and the work…



