Title:	DESIGNING FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING
Author(s):	Andrea Alessandro Gasparini
ISBN:	978-989-8533-91-3
Editors:	Katherine Blashki and Yingcai Xiao
Year:	2019
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Quantum Computing, Design, Design Thinking, Wicked Problems
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	317
Last Page:	321
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	During the last few years, quantum computing seems to have become a reality. Some few companies have developed quantum computers, and are in use in some large institutions and Universities, while other public organizations have made a similar attempt, but on a smaller scale. Promising to solve otherwise intractable problems for normal supercomputers, companies like Google are already using quantum computers to design solutions, including one allowing the software to distinguish cars from landmarks. However, after numerous and different empirical tests the results are not unanimous, resulting in new attempts to figure out what it is the best way of using this new type of machine that exhibits quantum properties. Developers and scholars argue for the need to redesign quantum computer to achieve full use of this new technology in computers. Proposing a designerly perspective on quantum computing seems a novel and interesting possibility to allow researchers fully taken advantages of this technology. This theoretical paper suggests the use of Design Thinking, and how it is used to solve wicked problems, to re-think how to approach quantum computing. For the design community, understand how to approach, understand and design for quantum computers, may open for a new field of research.
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