Volkan Gurses
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PhD candidate at Caltech in Electrical Engineering and Physics studying the fundamental physical limits of technologies.
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Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis! Quantum mechanical description of a circuit will continue to transform electronics in the 21st century.
BREAKING: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis win the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in quantum mechanics.
Nobel Prize for physics goes to 3 scientists for discoveries in quantum mechanical tunneling
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research into quantum mechanical tunneling.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis! Quantum mechanical description of a circuit will continue to transform electronics in the 21st century.
There is a constant battle between deep tech startups and academia. One needs hype for marketing, the other despises hype for credibility.
April 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
There is a constant battle between deep tech startups and academia. One needs hype for marketing, the other despises hype for credibility.
When the future seems blurry, reading about similar periods in history clarifies a lot.
April 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
When the future seems blurry, reading about similar periods in history clarifies a lot.
Arguably, the hardest thing about original research is convincing others that it is important.
March 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Arguably, the hardest thing about original research is convincing others that it is important.
Humanity being able to create artificial intelligence isn’t that surprising (not that it diminishes its significance) since we had nature to copy from. What would be very surprising is to make quantum technologies useful given virtually no organism uses quantum mechanics deliberately in nature.
March 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Humanity being able to create artificial intelligence isn’t that surprising (not that it diminishes its significance) since we had nature to copy from. What would be very surprising is to make quantum technologies useful given virtually no organism uses quantum mechanics deliberately in nature.
Optimizing for originality is better than optimizing for impact.
March 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Optimizing for originality is better than optimizing for impact.
Happy International Women's Day!
March 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Happy International Women's Day!
The commoditization of foundational models have many parallels to the early semiconductors. Similar to how Moore's law led to hardware whose operations could be abstracted away by software, foundational models could lead to higher level operating systems built on top of them.
March 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The commoditization of foundational models have many parallels to the early semiconductors. Similar to how Moore's law led to hardware whose operations could be abstracted away by software, foundational models could lead to higher level operating systems built on top of them.
A breakthrough technology happens when it is so fundamentally new that marketing and branding becomes secondary concerns.
March 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
A breakthrough technology happens when it is so fundamentally new that marketing and branding becomes secondary concerns.
An elephant in the room in technology is the lack of efforts to make analog computing work at scale. This has relevance to both neural networks (our brains are analog) and quantum computing (a lot of the error correction challenges in quantum computing are similar to analog computing).
March 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
An elephant in the room in technology is the lack of efforts to make analog computing work at scale. This has relevance to both neural networks (our brains are analog) and quantum computing (a lot of the error correction challenges in quantum computing are similar to analog computing).
Million-qubit-scale is still a stretch but focusing on high-yield fabrication is the correct call. If the process is made available publicly, it will have far-reaching impact on the photonics and quantum community.
Introducing Omega, the first manufacturable chipset for photonic quantum computing. Featured today in @nature.com and designed by PsiQuantum & manufactured at GlobalFoundries, it contains all the photonic components required for million-qubit-scale quantum computers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A manufacturable platform for photonic quantum computing - Nature
Nature - A manufacturable platform for photonic quantum computing
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February 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Million-qubit-scale is still a stretch but focusing on high-yield fabrication is the correct call. If the process is made available publicly, it will have far-reaching impact on the photonics and quantum community.
Bringing the adaptability of software into hardware with the same cost overhead would be world changing.
February 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Bringing the adaptability of software into hardware with the same cost overhead would be world changing.
Fundamental breakthroughs in technology are usually in one of two categories: 1) Technologies that imitate or replace humans (robotics, AI, computer vision) 2) Technologies that imitate or replace nature (semiconductors, quantum, gene editing).
February 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Fundamental breakthroughs in technology are usually in one of two categories: 1) Technologies that imitate or replace humans (robotics, AI, computer vision) 2) Technologies that imitate or replace nature (semiconductors, quantum, gene editing).
Every technologist should learn and build intuition about quantum mechanics. It provides insight into the fundamental limits of any technology.
February 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Every technologist should learn and build intuition about quantum mechanics. It provides insight into the fundamental limits of any technology.
Similar to how video games led to many world-changing moments (GPUs, parallel computing, growing interest in tech), VR games will also eventually change the world, most likely in unexpected ways.
February 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Similar to how video games led to many world-changing moments (GPUs, parallel computing, growing interest in tech), VR games will also eventually change the world, most likely in unexpected ways.
If plasmonic circuits can be fabricated at scale and with high yield, it will revolutionize the semiconductor industry. They can be the best of both worlds of electronics and photonics.
February 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
If plasmonic circuits can be fabricated at scale and with high yield, it will revolutionize the semiconductor industry. They can be the best of both worlds of electronics and photonics.
In these uncertain times, let science be your north star.
February 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In these uncertain times, let science be your north star.
Hardware leads to better software leads to better hardware leads to better software… (until we reach the fundamental physical limits).
February 2, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Hardware leads to better software leads to better hardware leads to better software… (until we reach the fundamental physical limits).
A combination of science and capital can change the world but neither can do it alone.
January 30, 2025 at 5:15 AM
A combination of science and capital can change the world but neither can do it alone.
Academic research disrupts industry always because innovation in academia must compete with industry using very few resources. When it is adopted in industry and is scaled, its edge over prior innovations also scales.
January 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Academic research disrupts industry always because innovation in academia must compete with industry using very few resources. When it is adopted in industry and is scaled, its edge over prior innovations also scales.
3D integration in its most visionary form will eventually blur the boundary between chips and boards and allow information density in computers to converge toward the Bekenstein bound.
January 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
3D integration in its most visionary form will eventually blur the boundary between chips and boards and allow information density in computers to converge toward the Bekenstein bound.
After a certain level of compute, chip design might transform into design at a molecular level, blurring the line between device physics and circuits.
January 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
After a certain level of compute, chip design might transform into design at a molecular level, blurring the line between device physics and circuits.
If product distribution in hardware can reach the same efficiency as software, it would be world-changing. For this to happen, we need a small automated factory (more versatile than a 3D printer) in every person’s home.
January 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
If product distribution in hardware can reach the same efficiency as software, it would be world-changing. For this to happen, we need a small automated factory (more versatile than a 3D printer) in every person’s home.
Becoming the best at anything comes from starting small and going big. So never be ashamed of seemingly small tasks.
January 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Becoming the best at anything comes from starting small and going big. So never be ashamed of seemingly small tasks.
Reconfigurability in hardware plays a key role in any technology innovation. Going from special purpose machines to general purpose computers came from having reconfigurable building blocks (e.g. gates) in hardware.
January 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Reconfigurability in hardware plays a key role in any technology innovation. Going from special purpose machines to general purpose computers came from having reconfigurable building blocks (e.g. gates) in hardware.