Charles Tahan
@tahantech
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You're only as good as your next gig.
washington, dc
Joined November 2014
At Microsoft Quantum we are racing to build the first utility-scale quantum computer based on topological qubits ( https://t.co/YwKfBBXdsd). We are also working very closely with our partners to bring their quantum computer technology to life sooner in the Microsoft Quantum
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This morning, I, alongside @GovWesMoore UMD @President_Pines , and @Microsoft EVP Jason Zander, announced at #QWC25 that Microsoft will open a new partner-focused quantum research center in the Discovery District as part of the #CapitalofQuantumInitiative. I am super excited to
blogs.microsoft.com
Microsoft is proud to announce the opening of a new quantum research center at the University of Maryland’s Discovery District. This lab is the result of a deep collaboration between Microsoft, the...
Another huge win for Maryland: @Microsoft will be opening a quantum research center at the @UofMaryland's Discovery District! Quantum’s at the center of our strategy for growing our state’s economy and driving innovation. By working with Microsoft, we’ll create new jobs and
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Dude is three years out of grad school.
techcrunch.com
Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, will round out the leadership team at Meta's new AI lab.
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Can we all just agree that Elon Musk is the last person on earth who should have a political party?
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The CLI coding agents - Claude Code, etc - are the first iterations of AI operating systems.
Remember, in Star Trek, ChatGPT is just called “the computer.”
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Best summary I’ve seen yet.
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Musk started tinkering with the system before he understood how it worked, then left when Donald Trump’s attention wandered.
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It literally feels like HUD secretary is stealing the nerd's (NSF's) lunch money. But in this case it's their whole freakin' headquarters. https://t.co/71eSsxwb14
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development will move its employees out of D.C. to Alexandria, Virginia, booting the National Science Foundation from its headquarters.
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to testify before the @housescience committee on the importance of continued investment in quantum and science in the U.S. https://t.co/BptbE52MFP
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Written testimony of Dr. Charles Tahan, Partner at Microsoft Quantum, Microsoft Corporation, before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: “From Policy to Progress – How the...
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On the west coast it’s still World Quantum Day! So I’ve just made it. I’m extremely grateful that the annual event that the National Quantum Coordination Office helped officially launch back in 2022 has grown bigger each year. I always had this dream of making the entire
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There is an alternate reality where Cray took their vector supercomputers, ditched FP64 calculations, and went with one FP32 pipe and a BF16 tensor core pipe. The same instruction set, memory architecture, and vector registers would have made a sweet deep learning machine, in
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Bill Gates just appeared at Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event and nerded out
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Going to be a fun talk tomorrow for international year of quantum:
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Maryland is home to thousands of federal public servants who have raised their hands to serve and protect our country. They help drive our economy, and serve our people. They deserve respect and clarity so they can continue their vital work.
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