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Brent Waters Elected IEEE Fellow

Professor Brent Waters in blue button-down shirt against a burnt orange background and “It feels good to be recognized by your peers… they understand what I do better than anyone else.” - Brent Waters in white text against a charcoal gray background on the right.

02/05/2025 - Brent Waters, a cryptography professor in the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin, was recently named one of IEEE’s newest fellows.

The Implications of Quantum Computing: Internet Security, Random Bits, and More

Doctor Scott Aaronson, Texas Computer Science, Quantum Computing

01/25/2019 - Quantum computers are sophisticated machines that harness the strange laws of quantum physics to solve particular kinds of problems. These machines have been “trending” for quite some time now with popular media calling them “supercomputers” or “supermachines” and implying that they have the power to basically answer any and all currently unsolvable problems. These is, however, a misconception.

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