1. Courtney McFate

2. - Customer Service Industry - Computer takes your order - Computer fixes your car or sells you a car - Security Technology - Surveillance Systems - Biometric Tech - Information Protection - Forensics - Mobile Uses - App Development

3.  Einstein's “Spooky Action at a Distance”  Quantum Entanglement  Until measured, bit can be 0 or 1  Two qubits, then, can hold four values at any given time (00, 01, 10, and 11). And as you keep increasing the number of qubits, you exponentially increase the power of the system  In quantum computer, thanks to what’s called the superposition principle, information is held in a quantum system that can exist in two states at the same time www.wired.com

4.  512 qubits—the fundamental building block of a quantum computer—to more than a 1000 qubits.  Doesn’t require a significant increase in power  Together with NASA  The Canadian company that built the machine, said it has agreed to provide regular upgrades to the system—keeping it “state-of-the-art”—for the next seven years  Confident there are situations where the D- Wave can outperform today’s non-quantum machines  Difficult to build a quantum computer www.wired.com www.dwavesys.com

5. Questions to think about  Where?  Which Field?  Salary?  The Demand?  Skills?  Flexibility?

6.  Degrees  Computers  Business  Certifications  Microsoft  Apple  Networking  Programming  Science  Physics  Chemistry  Electrical  Conferences  Local  Las Vegas  New York  Classes  Week Long Study  Internet  Microsoft Free Classes  Online College Courses/Free

8.  Russia  Europe  Sweden  U.K.  Italy  Denmark  Iceland  China  Japan  Africa  Egypt  South Africa  Australia  India  Mexico  Brazil  Canada  United States

9. http://www.salaryexplorer.com/ Cost of Living in Russia

12.  China is now the third largest IT market in the world (behind the US and Japan). www.hays.cn

13. Right here in the Quad Cities!  John Deere  Alcoa  Robert Half Technology  UnityPoint Health www.indeed.com

14. Courtney McFate courtney.mcfate@gmail.com courtney.mcfate@unitypoint.org