Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced that Prof. Stephen Clark is joining the company as Head of Artificial Intelligence.
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced that Prof. Stephen Clark is joining the company as Head of Artificial Intelligence. Until recently, Prof. Clark was a Senior Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind in London where he led a team working on grounded language learning in virtual environments. He also holds an Honorary Professorship at Queen Mary University of London.
Prior to starting at DeepMind in October 2016, Clark spent 10 years as a member of faculty at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, where he was Reader in Natural Language Processing. Before that he was a member of faculty at the Oxford University Department of Computer Science, and a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Prof. Clark holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College).
Ilyas Khan, CEO of CQC, said, “I am thrilled to welcome Prof. Clark to Cambridge Quantum where he will join as a senior member of our amazing scientific team as head of Artificial Intelligence. Steve’s reputation and standing are of the highest order and I am excited at the perspective and leadership he brings at this vital time of our development.
We have a hugely ambitious programme of work to make the most of quantum computing hardware in these early stages of their development, whilst also preparing applications that will affect humanity as a whole when quantum computers scale and approach fault tolerance.”
“I am especially pleased to be reigniting my long standing collaboration with Prof. Bob Coecke, now Chief Scientist at Cambridge Quantum, and excited about exploring the potential of quantum computers in AI generally with the company’s impressive scientific teams.”
Clark said, “I am delighted to be joining Cambridge Quantum, a cutting-edge world leading quantum computing company. I am especially pleased to be reigniting my long standing collaboration with Prof. Bob Coecke, now Chief Scientist at Cambridge Quantum, and excited about exploring the potential of quantum computers in AI generally with the company’s impressive scientific teams. I am also very excited that I will be continuing, indeed accelerating a research program in language processing that started 15 years ago when I presented at OASIS (The Oxford Advanced Seminar on Informatic Structures), setting out the problem of composing distributed representations in language, which seems especially well-suited to a solution based on quantum computation.”
Prof. Clark’s most recent papers
■ Formalising Concepts as Grounded Abstractions, Stephen Clark, Alexander Lerchner, Tamara von Glehn, Olivier Tieleman, Richard Tanburn, Misha Dashevskiy, Matko Bosnjak, arXiv Jan 2021
Founded in 2014 and backed by some of the world’s leading quantum computing companies, CQC is a global leader in quantum software and quantum algorithms, enabling clients to achieve the most out of rapidly evolving quantum computing hardware. CQC has offices in the UK, USA and Japan. For more information, visit CQC at http://www.cambridgequantum.com and on LinkedIn. Access the tket Python module on GitHub.
If you found this article to be informative, you can explore more currentquantum news here, exclusives, interviews, and podcasts.
With a several-decades long background in journalism and communications, Matt Swayne has worked as a science communicator for an R1 university for more than 12 years, specializing in translating high tech and deep tech for the general audience. He has served as a writer, editor and analyst at The Quantum Insider since its inception. In addition to his service as a science communicator, Matt also develops courses to improve the media and communications skills of scientists and has taught courses.
[email protected]
We use cookies to improve your experience on our site. By continuing to browse our site, you consent to our use of cookies. For more details, you can manage your preferences under "Settings".
Read our cookie policy
Welcome to our weekly QC newsletter. Yes, we know we are The Quantum Insider but we also appreciate that you probably don’t want us in your inbox every day. Here is what we have been working on this week.
Thank you!
You have successfully joined our subscriber list.
Thank you!
One of our team will be in touch to learn more about your requirements, and provide pricing and access options.
