Gambetta

American

[gam-bet-uh, gahn-be-ta] / gæmˈbɛt ə, gɑ̃ bɛˈta /

noun

Léon 1838–82, French statesman.

Gambetta British

/ ɡɑ̃bɛta, ɡæmˈbɛtə /

noun

Léon (leɔ̃). 1838–82, French statesman; prime minister (1881–82). He organized resistance during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) and was a founder of the Third Republic (1871)

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IBM recently elevated Jay Gambetta, the former head of its quantum division, to lead its research efforts as a whole—a sign of how seriously it takes quantum.

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Jay Gambetta, who oversees IBM’s research effort, shared a similar view in an earlier interview with Barron’s.

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“We’re imagining a heterogeneous accelerating framework that connects quantum and classical compute,” Gambetta explained during a tour of IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in October.

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Jay Gambetta, the head of IBM Research, told Barron’s last year that the architecture was “the only path where you have an exponential speedup over classical computing.”

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Despite the progress, there are still plenty of puzzles for Gambetta’s team to solve.

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