• Question: how would your project help people?

    Asked by P!ATD to Rob, Euan, Deborah, Maheen on 22 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by Xx_how to be blanked-MLG-, Ella, 228eadf25, lilly & laura.
    • Photo: Euan Allen

      Euan Allen answered on 22 Jun 2016:


      Hey P!ATD, good question.

      I’m working on building a new type of computer by using light instead of electrons. We call this new computer a “quantum computer”.

      The reason we are trying to build this new type of computer is because it is faster at computing some problems than a normal computer. An example is modelling chemical reactions. This is actually pretty difficult for a current computer to do, and we can only model reactions of a certain size (otherwise it would take years to compute). With our new computer, the size of the problem we can solve is much larger. This is useful because it will allow us to do things like design new drugs or medicine, which is really useful to lots of people. We can also do things like modelling engineering problems, which is also incredibly useful!

    • Photo: Maheen Siddiqui

      Maheen Siddiqui answered on 23 Jun 2016:


      Hi!

      My project would basically help us understand how a normal babies brain develops, there is a lot we still don’t know! This information can then be used to see what goes wrong when a child develops a psychiatric disorder or disease and what we could do to help them!

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