Hardware Podcasts

Ep. 50 | AWS VP of Engineering Bill Vass on AI, Quantum Computing, and the Metaverse

Moore's Lobby · 19 Jul 2022 · 1h 15m · Episode 10

What this episode covers

Bill Vass, VP of Technology and Engineering at AWS, discusses the evolution of cloud and edge computing, highlighting ruggedized storage devices like Snowball and Snowcone used for disconnected processing and secure data transport. He explains AWS's approach to quantum computing through the Braket service, which provides access to various hardware architectures from partners like IonQ and Rigetti, while detailing their own Cat Qubit research. Vass also shares insights on the 'metaverse' as 3D simulation rather than just VR headsets, and reflects on his career building autonomous robots at Liquid Robotics and his work at the Pentagon.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
AWS, IonQ, Rigetti, Xanadu, Siemens, Ansys, Liquid Robotics, Sun Microsystems, D-Wave, QuEra
Products
Snowball, Snowcone, Braket, Commodore 64, Kinesis, Apache Kafka, TwinMaker, RoboMaker, FleetWise, Graviton

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