"welcome to the a 16c podcast London tour edition sonal and I are sitting here with a gentleman we're very excited to interview Ilyas Khan who is the founder and CEO of Cambridge quantum computing he i..."

"sonal and i are going to discuss all sorts of things you and maybe we can start with the quantum computing side of things it almost seems like magic I mean we've been talking about quantum computing f..."

"art as you know and as you guys are working on it right yep so it's my third startup at the grand old age of 51 and both of my first two startups were in technology as well but in my late 20s and 30s ..."

"82 I think or 83 and the promise of such a machine the ideal of such a machine as being exciting people really for more than 30 years right but it's one of those technologies that whenever you read ab..."

"takes root the current state of affairs is blessedly simple to describe actually most of the technology reports can be divided into two sectors one is the work that is done in academia and that is lar..."

"story is as follows the Giants on the should we say the the Western world Europe and America are very clearly dominated by Microsoft and Google of course IBM you mentioned Intel they're a relatively r..."

"fascinating because I don't know if the US government is investing that much oh yes it is there's some amazing work also now being sponsored on quantum cryptographically communication on the infrastru..."

"through that and I can think of myself as being the recipient of amazing changes my children live in a world which is very different from when I lived in however those changes would be as if nothing c..."

"before we answer that could you actually describe what the benefits of quantum computing are because you describe this vision that vitamin had Richard Feynman had and we understand that you know the p..."

"aspects to cryptography the current state of affairs is that when we communicate more often than not the public key encryption that we use is based on the inability of computers to find factors for la..."

"aspect is cryptography in the form of codes both code-breaking and called creating the second aspect is what Einstein was famously responsible for being very skeptical about and this is a spooky actio..."

"defined something called the a basic minimum and he teaches courses on the basic minimum for classical physics for mechanics for quantum physics and he describes this issue of entanglement as follows ..."

"describe or imagine even great we came in conceived we're hardwired to conceive of the big things we can talk about the universe but when you start going the other way around our minds abandon reality..."

"talk about quantum computing it and you know you just described this whole list of very large very profit-driven very in some ways rational companies although Google you could you could argue whether ..."

"driven business as well we can see things which do matter and which a quantum computer perhaps in the early days aligned with classical computers because all of our classical systems aren't gonna disa..."

"related application in the early days just like the early days of the internet in fact yes absolutely and and so many of our technologies the the Apollo space mission program was shrouded in the kind ..."

"is where the machinery breaks down and a quantum computer even with a modest number of qubits and and the the analogy that gets bandied around by everybody who's been on the d-wave website or who's re..."

"what is really relevant which has eluded people forever is to try and find out whether a stock or a bond or a Treasury based on the collection of vast amounts of data is likely to move one way or the ..."

"was that we back in you know when ENIAC came around and when cheering was talking about his machine we started thinking of using the binary system whether there were vacuum tubes or lamps or whatever ..."

"sort of monopolistic iran sort of you know corporate that ends up for awhile reaping the rewards so when the who are you in America of course you're familiar with the the railway barons so I don't kno..."

"when engineering solutions are being found I'm not on the hardware side my I'm I'm on a different side of the business which I find much more fascinating and where I think the great fortunes are going..."

"the space I can give you my perspective which is very very limited first of all I think that the big hardware game is absolutely not startup the people that have got the resources to be able to attack..."

"these things work and our customers are the people who will buy the machines and then say oh hang on a minute what am I going to do with how can I make this thing right I mean what you guys have been ..."

"graph theory so that's how we started I should say that in those days I really thought that this would be something which would keep me occupied academically and of interest over the next eight nine t..."

"well described and documented it's been enormously successful in in Europe and my modest involvement then led to my do my own startup so whatever we're doing is not a spin-out from the University beca..."

"intended it immediately when I think of math I think of software and when I think of an operating system I think of software there's a whole layer upon which people can code in the classical world for..."

"of software development look like with a quantum computer I mean do we have any ideas or their people even thinking about it is it just simply too early you have to imagine and again we're not hardwir..."

"closely with initially the hardware than has been the case for a very long time people who are currently software guys they don't even care if they ever see a machine so you're talking like more like ..."

"over a hundred years about the reconciliation at some point of the laws of quantum mechanics and quantum physics with the laws of relativity and gravity the so-called theory of everything I don't know..."

"essential question that we've always asked which is how did it all happen where did we all come from is there a beginning is R an end I mean today we know that there I don't know how many there are a ..."

"so it's interesting when you say an emphasis on stem you didn't include philosophy in the liberal arts what drew us to your background as well is that you're sort of uniting all these worlds in your w..."