Inside Pittsburgh's New Quantum Computer

Quantum computing has spent years being described as the technology that's always 10 years away. In Pittsburgh, that future is getting a lot closer.
University of Pittsburgh Senior Vice Chancellor for Research Rob Rutenbar joins Pittsburgh Technology Council President and CEO Audrey Russo to unpack the quantum computer headed to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center through funding from the National Science Foundation.
And don't worry if you can't tell a qubit from a Q-tip.
Rutenbar starts with the basics, explaining how quantum computers work, why qubits can exist as both zeros and ones…