Scott Aaronson is an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. Scott's research interests center around fundamental limits on what can efficiently be computed in the physical world. This has entailed studying quantum computing, the most powerful model of computation we have, based on known physical theory.

His talk was part of a TEDx program, hosted by CalTech to honor Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate, Caltech physics professor, iconoclast, visionary, and all-around "curious character."

Scott Aaronson writes a popular blog, http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog, and is the creator of the Complexity Zoo, an online encyclopedia of computational complexity theory.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx