Resources

• Vagrant virtual machine setup. A repository is available on the CS Department’s GitLab server that allows you to reproduce the virtual machine that David is using for some of the demos in lectures. The master branch of that repository expects to use VirtualBox, which in mid-2024 doesn’t support Macs with Arm CPUs. Instead the docker branch of the repository uses Docker to run virtual machines, and should work on Arm CPUs, but is less tested than the master branch.

• Otago Echo Centre section for COSC312. Recorded or prerecorded lectures are available on Otago Capture.

• Quantum stuff

  • Peter Shor on history
  • Post-quantum cryptography, the state of play as of late August 2022, with links.
  • (NAS) Quantum Computing: Progress and Prospects (2019)
  • Shtetl-optimised Scott Aaaronson’s blog – rather heavy on politics at the moment.
  • Scott Aaronson quantum information science course notes - links to two sets of notes.
  • Quantum computing since Democritus, a book-length high-level discussion by Scott Aaronson of the field in 2013 (link to ebook via Otago library and ezproxy)
  • Intro to quantum computing A youtube playlist based around a quantum computing paper at Foothill Community College. Michael Loceff (also writer and producer on 24) produced this and wrote the associated textbook