Discovery Park welcomes IBM’s Dario Gil

Dario Gil, director of IBM Research. (Photo provided) Download image

Dario Gil, director of IBM Research, will speak Jan. 25 on new innovations and game-changing approaches to computing. This lecture is presented by Discovery Park as part of the Discovery Park Distinguished Lecture Series and is an event in Purdue's sesquicentennial celebration, 150 Years of Giant Leaps.

Gil’s talk, “The Future of AI and Quantum Computing,” will begin at 11 a.m. in Rawls Hall, Room 1062, and is open to the public. The presentation will cover today’s state-of-the-art computing for AI as well as algorithmic and hardware innovations that will carry forward into future exploration. Gil also will address IBM’s foray into quantum computing, its creation of the world’s first cloud-accessible quantum computers, IBM’s superconducting qubit implementation and Qiskit software framework.

Gil is responsible for IBM’s global research efforts in artificial intelligence and its quantum computing program, guides the strategic agenda of IBM Research, and establishes partnerships with companies and universities. He co-chairs the MIT-IBM Watson AI lab and is the author of numerous patents, and his research has appeared in more than 20 international journals and conferences. Gil holds a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.  

The Discovery Park Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by the Lilly Endowment as a mechanism for Purdue and Discovery Park to bring to campus the latest thinking about science and technology and other broad areas of public interest.

Writer:  Elizabeth Harwood, eharwood@purdue.edu