May Subscriber-Only Event

In principle, quantum computers offer enormous performance boosts for certain applications in cryptography, telecommunications, materials science, and fundamental physics. In practice, such breakthroughs remain as yet unrealized. Join Scientific American editors Lee Billings, Clara Moskowitz and Eric Sullivan for an engaging discussion on the promise and peril of quantum computing. Attendees are also invited to ask questions.

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Featured Panelists

Lee Billings is a science journalist specializing in astronomy, physics, planetary science and spaceflight. He is senior desk editor for physical science at Scientific American. Lee is author of a critically acclaimed book, Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life among the Stars, which in 2014 won a Science Communication Award from the American Institute of Physics.

Clara Moskowitz is chief of reporters at Scientific American, where she covers astronomy, space, physics and mathematics. She has been at Scientific American for more than a decade; previously she worked at Space.com. Moskowitz has reported live from rocket launches, space shuttle liftoffs and landings, suborbital spaceflight training, mountaintop observatories, and more. She has a bachelor’s degree in astronomy and physics from Wesleyan University and a graduate degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Eric Sullivan is senior desk editor for technology at Scientific American. Previously he served as a senior editor at Fast Company and Esquire and an associate editor at GQ, where his work helped earn a National Magazine Award for Reporting. He has shaped award-winning longform journalism on emerging technology across print and digital.