[CSEE Talk] talk: Aho on Quantum Computer Compilers, 3pm 4/25, ITE456, UMBC

[Tim Finin]

          Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research
          Distinguished Computational Science Lecture Series

                      Quantum Computer Compilers

                       Professor Alfred V. Aho
         Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
                     http://cs.columbia.edu/~aho/

            3:00pm Thursday, 25 April 2013, ITE 456, UMBC

Quantum computing is an exciting emerging field that offers great
potential for next generation information processing but also presents
great scientific and engineering challenges. Assuming that someday we
will be able to build scalable and reliable quantum computers, we will
need to create programming languages and compilers that will allow
programmers to harness quantum phenomena.  In this talk, Alfred Aho
will look at quantum computing from a compiler writer's perspective
and discuss some of the formidable challenges that face quantum
computer compilers.

Alfred Aho is the Lawrence Gussman Professor of Computer Science at
Columbia University. He received a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics from
the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering/
Computer Science from Princeton University. Prior to his current
position, he served as vice president of the Computing Sciences
Research Center at Bell Labs, the lab that invented UNIX, C and
C++. He is the "A" in AWK, a widely used pattern-matching
language. His current research interests include programming
languages, compilers, algorithms, software engineering and quantum
computing. He has won the IEEE John von Neumann Medal and is a Member
of the National Academy of Engineering and of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, Bell Labs and
IEEE. In 2003 he received the Great Teacher Award from the Society of
Columbia Graduates.

Host: Prof. Milton Halem (halem at umbc.edu)

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