As a graduate student doing his master’s thesis on speech recognition at the MIT AI Lab (now the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), Dan Huttenlocher worked closely with Professor Victor Zue. Well known for pioneering the development of systems that enable an user to interact with computers using

 

The immortal words uttered by Danish physicist, Niels Bohr, “if quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet”, ring true more than ever in today’s ultra-connected world. Just 30 years ago, scientists were only beginning to imagine the possibility of constructing a quantum computer more powerful