Timely Partnership
In 2021, the northeast corner of the Caltech campus received a new addition
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Tom Goreau, PhD (MS ’72) is a trauma surgeon for the ocean. Since the late 1980s, Goreau and his colleagues have installed more than 700 electric reefs to protect delicate coral ecosystems renowned for their biodiversity and beauty—and increasingly stressed and weakened by climate change. Between 1957 and 2007, over half of the coral reefs in the world died, according to research published in 2021. And, if global temperatures rise further, scientists predict that all of them will be wiped out.
“We can help put coral reefs on life support,” Goreau says, “but the problem won’t go away until global warming itself disappears. That’s the issue.”
Inside an unassuming building sits technology that is transforming the future of computing. The AWS Center for Quantum Computing is the result of a collaboration between Caltech and Amazon Web Services, the cloud- computing branch of Amazon. The collaboration helps bridge the fundamental, breakthrough research happening at Caltech with commercial quantum computing. The AWS Center creates quantum computing and related technologies that have the potential to revolutionize data security, machine learning, medicine development, sustainability practices, and more.
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