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Quantum Computers, Spy Balloons, and China’s Endgame | Paul Dabbar

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

CHAPTER

How Did You Become a Computer Scientist?

I've read too that, you know, you could, I'm not sure that it says it to utility necessarily, but creating a highly realistic simulation, you would need just this massive amounts of computing power. Yeah, so it's these problems where you have massive amounts of data that require supercomputing to actually crunch it. So I had been a computer, a bit, a bit of nuclear reactor, nuclear physics background. The DOE came from, I did a lot of work for DOE. But I ended up getting appointed under the Bush administration and then reappointed four times under the Obama administration on advisory boards at DOE.

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