Dr. Charles Tahan
"Quantum Information Technology and Society from 2000 to 2040”
Charles Tahan, Partner at Microsoft Quantum and Visiting Research Professor at the University of Maryland; formerly Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
In December 2025, the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) hosted the third event in the:Quantum, Broadly Considered lecture series. The series explores how unresolved questions in physics and mathematics, alongside government investments, market dynamics, and social imaginaries have shaped, and continue to shape, the possibilities of quantum research.
More information and the video of the lecture will be available soon.
Suggested Readings:
Tahan, Charles. "Opinion: Democratizing Spin Qubits." Quantum, vol. 5, Nov. 2021, p. 584, arXiv:2001.08251v2.
---. "Opinion: The Simplest Quantum Computer (A Retrospective from 2040)." arXiv, 2024, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.18726.
---. "Spookytechnology and Society." arXiv, 2007, https://arxiv.org/pdf/0710.2537.
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. National Quantum Initiative Strategy Reports. 2021-2025, https://www.quantum.gov/strategy/#STRATEGY-DOCUMENTS.