Transcript
[Music plays and an image appears of a Prize for Innovators medallion above text: Dr Andrew Horsley]
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Dr Andrew Horsley: My grandfather was one of the Directors at ANU Physics.
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Having that exposure to role models like my grandfather made science feel not just exciting, but very real and tangible.
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My name is Andrew Horsley and I'm one of the co-founders of Quantum Brilliance.
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A big theme for me throughout my career has been trying to take science and turn that into usable technologies.
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So in 2019, myself and two co-founders, Marcus Doherty and Mark Luo founded Quantum Brilliance in order to commercialise and explore the potential of diamond quantum computing.
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With diamond we were able to turn quantum computing from something that requires room size or even building size infrastructure, that you can shrink it down to something smaller than a lunchbox that you can hold in your hands and an application could be putting quantum computers in satellites to help in the early detection of bushfires, or putting a quantum computer in a self-driving vehicle to help it drive more safely.
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One of the pillars of Quantum Brilliance’s success has been the coming together of a whole ecosystem of academic and research organisations, government, large and small businesses.
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And we've been very lucky to have Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Centre as our first customer and critical partner from the very early days of Quantum Brilliance.
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With them, we were able to make a world's first deployment of a quantum computer into a supercomputing white space.
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It has been an invaluable tool for exploring how do we get quantum and classical computers to work together?
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Our next challenges are to continue developing the precision manufacturing capabilities and continue growing our partnership network to mature this technology and take it then to market and work out then how to make not just tens or hundreds of quantum computers, but making millions of computers every year and distributing them to all of us.
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I'm incredibly grateful and humbled to be the recipient of the Prize for New Innovators.
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It helps get the message about what we're doing at Quantum Brilliance to a broader audience, and helps then Australians also understand yet another one of the many examples of great science and innovation that happen in this country.
[Music plays and the image changes to show the Prize for Innovators medallion, with the Australian Government Coat of Arms in the bottom right corner, and text appears: 2024 Prize for Innovators, Celebrating 25 years]
