What is quantum computing?

Many of us struggle with the concept of quantum computing: what it is, what it does, and how it works. So who better to explain it in plain language that our guest this week, Dr Shohini Ghose?

Shohini is a theoretical physicist and Professor of Physics and Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. She is a pioneer and trailblazer for woman in science, founding the Laurier Centre for Women in Science in 2012.

She talked us through the differences between binary computing (or computing in black and white) and quantum computing (computing in greyscale), the challenges of engineering and technology being so far behind the theory, and she explained that quantum information processing (QIP) is about so much more than just faster computing.