{"id":2732,"date":"2016-04-16T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T00:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/16\/justin-trudeau-explains-quantum-computing-like-a-boss\/"},"modified":"2016-04-16T08:20:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T00:20:35","slug":"justin-trudeau-explains-quantum-computing-like-a-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/16\/justin-trudeau-explains-quantum-computing-like-a-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau explains quantum computing like a boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"4774293b77c14be78c2771013427cded\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE1LzdmLzQ3NzQyOTNiNzdjLjY5ZmU2LnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/de735441\/bc1\/4774293b77c14be78c2771013427cded.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Justin+Trudeau+explains+quantum+computing+like+a+boss&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F15%2Fjustin-trudeau-quantum-computing%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F15%2Fjustin-trudeau-quantum-computing%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau surprised a room full of reporters Friday when he nailed a sarcastic question on quantum computing, no doubt scoring major points with tech-savvy constituents. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/10\/justin-trudeau-visits-white-house\/\">&#8216;It&#8217;s about time, eh?&#8217;: Obama is stoked Justin Trudeau is in the USA<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The impromptu computer science lesson came as Trudeau was affirming a $50 million research budget for the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. When Trudeau opened the floor for questions, one reporter asked about Canada&#8217;s mission against ISIS, but prefaced his question by joking: &#8220;I was going to ask you to explain quantum computing, but&#8230;&#8221; The gaggle of reporters and onlookers chuckled at the thought. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/15\/justin-trudeau-quantum-computing\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/quantum-computing\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Quantum Computing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/stephen-hawking\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Stephen Hawking<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/justin-trudeau\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Justin Trudeau<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/Md7tQG5fFYY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau surprised a room full of reporters Friday when he nailed a sarcastic question on quantum computing, no doubt scoring major points with tech-savvy constituents. \u00a0 SEE ALSO: &#8216;It&#8217;s about time, eh?&#8217;: Obama is stoked Justin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/16\/justin-trudeau-explains-quantum-computing-like-a-boss\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1549,1954,1955,1112],"class_list":["post-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-quantum-computing","tag-stephen-hawking","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}