Op/ed: ‘An Industry That Will Change the World’ – Maryland Today

Quantum science and technology just made a major stride in a century-long journey from the notebooks and experiments of scientific luminaries like Einstein to its position todaypoised to deliver once-impossible solutions to a range of pressing societal problems, University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines writes in a new op/ed in The Baltimore Sun.

IonQ, a company founded in part on UMD technology and based in its Discovery District, became the first purely quantum-focused company on the New York Stock exchange, cementing UMDs place at the center of what Pines calls the DMV: the Capital of Quantuma potential ground zero for the next world-changing technological upheaval of the sort that began in Silicon Valley in the 1970s.

Friday morning, I traveled to New York City to witness IonQthe revolutionary startup born out of research at the University of Maryland, where I am presidentbecome the first publicly traded pure-play hardware and software company in the quantum computing space.

As I prepared to stand alongside IonQs founders and leaders to ring the ceremonial bell, I was struck by a heavy realization: Its herethe quantum revolution Ive been preparing for, talking about incessantly, and working tirelessly to champion has arrived.

Think about personalized medicinenot just a vaccine, but a vaccine designed just for you. Think about climate change and having the computational power to actually tackle it and reverse the damage we humans have caused to our planet. Quantum makes it ever-so-much-more possible. Its going to be a game-changer for the entire Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia (DMV) area.

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