Location North Bend, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Peter Chapman is President and CEO of IonQ, the leader in universal quantum computing.
Previously, Peter was Director of Engineering for Amazon Prime. He has over 40 years of leadership in software engineering, from when he began his career at 16 working with Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.
After
founding and successfully selling a few startups in the 80’s and 90’s, Peter came out of an early retirement to help build tools for the blind at the helm of Ray Kurzweil's company, K-NFB Reading Technologies.
Peter has had a lifelong interest in AI and one of the reasons he joined IonQ is because he believes that quantum computing may have an important part in solving AGI and many other important problems facing mankind.
