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Quantum Computing is a key technology of the 21st century. Currently we are in the middle of the second quantum revolution. Nearly a century ago Albert Einstein, Nils Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and many others laid the foundations of quantum physics. Any attempt by a computer scientist to understand these physics will most probably fail. This technology is now in the process of entering the world of computers. The opinions about quantum computing today range from “not even started” to “totally successful”.
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PROF. DR. CLAUDIA LINNHOFF-POPIEN Prof. Dr. Claudia Linnhoff-Popien holds the chair „Mobile and Distributed Systems“ at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She finished her Ph.D. thesis at the Technical University Aachen and gave lectures at the University GH Essen. She did postdoctoral research at the Washington University of St. Louis, Missouri, USA before she was appointed to a professorship at the LMU Munich in 1998. She is board member of the Institute for Informatics, member of the „Münchner Kreis“ and co-founder of the ALOQA GmbH. The latter had one million registered users when it was sold to Motorola Mobility in 2010 marking one of the biggest exits in the history of start-ups of German universities. Further, she is head of the lead project „Innovationszentrum Mobiles Internet“ of the Zentrum Digitalisierung. Bayern (ZD.B) funded by the state of Bavaria. She is also scientific advisor of the VIRALITY GmbH and chair of Digitale Stadt München e.V.
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Linnhoff-Popien, C. Quantum Computing – a new hype?. Digitale Welt 3, 9–10 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42354-019-0159-x
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42354-019-0159-x