"I coined 'quantum supremacy' not to declare victory — but to name the moment we cross a threshold where quantum coordination does something no classical machine can efficiently simulate. That crossing is not about processing power. It is about the structure of correlation itself. Classical bits cannot be entangled. Entanglement is the coordination layer that classical computation cannot access."
Theoretical physicist who has spent four decades building the conceptual and mathematical framework for quantum computation. He coined the term 'quantum supremacy' in 2012 and introduced the NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) framework that correctly predicted how quantum hardware would mature. His Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech became the intellectual nursery of the quantum computing field, training a generation of researchers in quantum error correction and quantum information theory.