Hartmut Neven

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Hartmut Neven (2016)

Hartmut Neven (* 1964 in Aachen ) is a German computer scientist who conducts research at Google on quantum computers , among other things , but also on computer vision, face recognition, computational neurosciences and robotics. He is the engineering director at Google.

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Hartmut Neven studied physics and economics in Brazil, Cologne, Paris, Tübingen and Jerusalem and wrote his diploma thesis with Valentin Braitenberg at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen on a neural model for object recognition. In 1996 he received his doctorate from Christoph von der Malsburg at the Institute for Neuroinformatics at the Ruhr University Bochum (Dynamics for vision-guided autonomous mobile robots). He was then an assistant professor at the University of Southern California in the laboratory for biological and computer vision (also under von der Malsburg). He founded two companies, first Eyematic for real-time face analysis for avatar animation (based on wavelets ), then Neven Vision, which developed image search engines for cell phones with cameras and which were acquired by Google in 2006. Neven stayed at Google and worked there on image processing techniques and visual search systems, was significantly involved in Google Goggles and Google Glass (he was a co-founder of this project). He also led teams for optical character recognition and face recognition. His teams won several competitions in face recognition (FERET 1996, FRVT 2006), object recognition (ImageNet 2014) and OCR (ICDAR 2013). The visual search methods that he helped develop were used in many Google products (including Image Search, Google Photos, YouTube, Street View).

He is the founder and head of Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and is responsible for the development of quantum computers at Google. Google is working with NASA on this. Initially, Google used an adiabatic quantum computer from D-Wave Systems , for which he developed facial recognition software based on quantum algorithms at Google, demonstrated at SuperComputing 2007, and other machine learning tasks. The superconductor-based bristlecone quantum computer chip with 72 qubits (2018) was also developed under his leadership. He also researches applications of quantum simulation, for example for the elucidation of the quantum mechanical structure of solids. The software is developed in Los Angeles (Venice Beach), the hardware ( John Martinis et al.) In Santa Barbara.

For quantum computers, Neven predicted a double-exponential increase in their computing power in spring 2019 , so that their universal superiority ( quantum supremacy ) over classic computer architectures can be expected. Based on Moore's Law , the thesis found its way into the debate as Neven's Law .

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  • Rami Barends, Alireza Shabani, Lucas Lamata, Julian Kelly, Antonio Mezzacapo, Urtzi Las Heras, Ryan Babbush, Austin Fowler, Brooks Campbell, Yu Chen, Zijun Chen, Ben Chiaro, Andrew Dunsworth, Evan Jeffrey, Erik Lucero, Anthony Megrant, Josh Mutus, Matthew Neeley, Charles Neill, Peter O'Malley, Chris Quintana, Enrique Solano, Ted White, Jim Wenner, Amit Vainsencher, Daniel Sank, Pedram Roushan, Hartmut Neven, John Martinis: Digitized Adiabatic Quantum Computing with a Superconducting Circuit. In: Nature. Volume 534, 2016, pp. 222-226.
  • Peter O'Malley, Ryan Babbush, Ian Kivlichan, Jonathan Romero, Jarrod McClean, Rami Barends, Julian Kelly, Pedram Roushan, Andrew Tranter, Nan Ding, Brooks Campbell, Yu Chen, Zijun Chen, Ben Chiaro, Andrew Dunsworth, Austin Fowler, Evan Jeffrey, Anthony Megrant, Josh Mutus, Charles Neil, Chris Quintana, Daniel Sank, Ted White, Jim Wenner, Amit Vainsencher, Peter Coveney, Peter Love, Hartmut Neven, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, John Martinis: Scalable Quantum Simulation of Molecular Energies . In: Physical Review X. Volume 6, 2016, p. 031007.
  • Masoud Mohseni, Peter Read, Hartmut Neven, Sergio Boixo, Vasil Denchev, Ryan Babbush, Austin Fowler, Vadim Smelyanskiy, John Martinis: Commercialize Quantum Technologies in Five Years. In: Nature. Volume 543, 2017, pp. 171-174.
  • Sergio Boixo, Sergei Isakov, Vadim Smelyanskiy, Ryan Babbush, Nan Ding, Zhang Jiang, Michael J. Bremner, John Martinis, Hartmut Neven: Characterizing quantum supremacy in near-term devices. In: Nature Physics. Volume 14, 2018, p. 595.
  • Ryan Babbush, Nathan Wiebe, Jarrod McClean, James McClain, Hartmut Neven, Garnet Chan: Low-Depth Quantum Simulation of Materials. In: Physical Review X. Volume 8, 2018, p. 011044.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Schulz: Computer revolution: Google and NASA present quantum computers. In: Der Spiegel Online, December 9, 2015. Neven is also portrayed there.
  2. ^ Nele Husmann: Google's quantum leap. In: Focus. April 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ Kevin Hartnett: A New Law to Describe Quantum Computing's Rise? In: Quanta Magazine. Simons Foundation, June 18, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Neven, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen