Preparing a Workforce for Quantum Advances
December 11, 2024
Google recently reported using a new type of semiconductor chip to overcome a key technical challenge in quantum computing, an important step toward making the technology commercially viable. But to fully capture the potential of this and other emerging quantum technologies, Sean Dudley and Marisa Brazil write in Issues, the United States must develop an appropriately skilled workforce. This national effort must range across high schools, community colleges, and universities, and be geared to produce a diverse universe of workers, including computer engineers and PhD scientists, technicians to manage daily operations, and nonspecialists for affiliated jobs arising as the field flourishes.