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Over the years, I’ve written two op-eds for The New York Times about quantum computing, at the NYT editors’ invitation:

Quantum Computing Promises New Insights, Not Supermachines (2011)

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Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences! If you don’t believe me, click the link and keep scrolling down until you hit the name “Aaronson.” But then continue scrolling to see 144 other inductees, including my IAS postdoctoral classmate...


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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (1934-2026) won the 1980 Turing Award for numerous contributions to computer science, including foundational work on concurrency and formal verification and the invention (with Dijkstra) of the


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