Dr. Christine Corbett Moran is a researcher and engineer at NASA JPL, specializing in cybersecurity. She also serves as a guest scientist at Caltech, specializing in astrophysics. Her research spans fundamental physics and computer science, and she has published peer-reviewed papers on astrophysics, astronomy, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing, garnering thousands of citations. Her software products range from iOS applications to quantum computing simulators and have received millions of downloads. She has a PhD and master's in Astrophysics from the University of Zurich, and a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, and a B.S. in Physics from MIT. She can be found on Twitter at @corbett.
I'd like to thank my husband, Dr. Casey Handmer, for his support, and the editors at Packt for their encouragement. I'd also like to thank the South Pole Telescope collaboration for having me as a winterover scientist in Antarctica for 10.5 months in 2016; it was during the long winter months at the South Pole that I first found the time to dig into IBM QX.
Edward L. Platt is a researcher at the University of Michigan School of Information and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. He has published research on large-scale collective action, social networks, and online communities. He has also worked as a staff researcher and software developer for the MIT Center for Civic Media. He contributes to many free/open source software projects, including tools for media analysis, network science, and cooperative organizations. He has also done research on quantum computing and fault tolerance. He has an M.Math in applied mathematics from the University of Waterloo, as well as B.S. degrees in both computer science and physics from MIT. He is the author of Network Science in Python with NetworkX.
I would like to thank Seth Lloyd and Paul Penfield Jr. for introducing me to information and entropy. Thanks to Edward Farhi, Peter Shor, and Frank Wilhelm-Mauch for their mentorship in quantum computing. Thanks to my PhD mentor, Daniel M. Romero. Thanks to Andy Brosius and Persephone Hernandez-Vogt for bringing me joy, chocolate, and support. And thanks to Dr. Christine Corbett Moran for the opportunity to review this exciting book.
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