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John Preskill

John Preskill

Caltech theoretical physicist; Feynman Professor and quantum information director

Every podcast episode featuring John Preskill that Attunex has found: 22 interviews and appearances across 12 shows between 2016 and 2026. Most often on Freakonomics Radio (6), Sommerfeld Lecture Series (ASC) (3) and The Quantum Kid (2). Follow John in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. The Vanishing Mr. Feynman (Update)
    Freakonomics Radio

    In his final years, Richard Feynman's curiosity took him to some surprising places. We hear from his companions on the trips he took — and one he wasn’t able to. (Part three of a three-part series…

    2026-05-29
  2. The Brilliant Mr. Feynman (Update)
    Freakonomics Radio

    What happens when an existentially depressed and recently widowed young physicist from Queens gets a fresh start in California? We follow Richard Feynman out west, to explore his long and extremely…

    2026-05-27
  3. The Curious Mr. Feynman (Update)
    Freakonomics Radio

    From the Manhattan Project to the Challenger investigation, the physicist Richard Feynman loved to shoot down what he called “lousy ideas.” Today, the world is awash in lousy ideas — so maybe it’s…

    2026-05-22
  4. Public Lecture: Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier
    Sommerfeld Lecture Series (ASC)

    The quantum laws governing atoms and other tiny objects seem to defy common sense, and information encoded in quantum systems has weird properties that baffle our feeble human minds. John Preskill…

    2026-01-15
  5. Fields and Strings Seminar: Holographic Quantum Codes
    Sommerfeld Lecture Series (ASC)

    Two of the most amazing ideas in physics are the holographic principle and quantum error correction. The holographic principle asserts that all the information contained in a region of space is…

    2026-01-15
  6. John Preskill & Ken Goldberg: can quantum computers make robots smarter?
    The Quantum Kid

    Here's the Spotify version. Spotify has episode comments too, so I kept the "Now your turn" section. You could also turn one of those questions into a Spotify poll (there's a Polls tab on the episode…

    2026-01-08
  7. Can Quantum Computing Make Robots Smarter?
    The Quantum Kid

    Christmas episode!!In this Christmas episode, Kai - The Quantum Kid - explores what happens when quantum computing meets robotics. With:- John Preskill, Caltech theoretical physicist, who coined the…

    2026-01-08
  8. QTC's Conversation with John Preskill
    IEEE Quantum TC Podcast

    In this episode of the IEEE Quantum TC Podcast, our host Steve La Barbera speaks with John Preskill about some of the developments in quantum information science. John is the Richard P. Feynman…

    2025-09-19
  9. Megaquop with John Preskill and Rob Schoelkopf
    The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology

    In this episode of The New Quantum Era podcast, your host Sebastian Hassinger interviews two of the field's most well-known figures, John Preskill and Rob Schoelkopf, about the transition of quantum…

    2025-04-02
  10. What Is Quantum Teleportation?
    The Joy of Why

    Quantum teleportation isn’t just science fiction; it’s entirely real and happening in laboratories today. But teleporting quantum particles and information is a far cry from beaming people through…

    2024-03-14
  11. The Vanishing Mr. Feynman
    Freakonomics Radio

    In his final years, Richard Feynman's curiosity took him to some surprising places. We hear from his companions on the trips he took — and one he wasn’t able to. (Part three of a three-part series.)…

    2024-02-15
  12. The Brilliant Mr. Feynman
    Freakonomics Radio

    What happens when an existentially depressed and recently widowed young physicist from Queens gets a fresh start in California? We follow Richard Feynman out west, to explore his long and extremely…

    2024-02-08
  13. The Curious Mr. Feynman
    Freakonomics Radio

    From the Manhattan Project to the Challenger investigation, the physicist Richard Feynman loved to shoot down what he called “lousy ideas.” Today, the world is awash in lousy ideas — so maybe it’s…

    2024-02-01
  14. Black hole physics and new states of quantum matter with John Preskill
    The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology

    If anyone needs no introduction on a podcast about quantum computing, it's John Preskill. His paper "Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond," published in 2018, is the source of the acronym…

    2023-08-24
  15. John Preskill: From the Early Universe to the Future of Quantum Computing
    The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

    John Preskill is the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Physics at Caltech, a title many physicists would cherish. He is widely known in the field for his work as a theoretical physicist spearheading…

    2023-02-17
  16. Fault Tolerance and Error Correction
    Quantum Well

    The second episode in our series will focus on error mitigation, error correction and fault tolerance. In the first episode, we heard from leading experts about some of the challenges of building…

    2022-07-18
  17. John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They're Good For
    Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

    Depending on who you listen to, quantum computers are either the biggest technological change coming down the road or just another overhyped bubble. Today we're talking with a good person to listen…

    2021-06-28
  18. Part 2: John Preskill – Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Encountering Richard Feynman (#111)
    Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

    Learn about the exciting promise of quantum computing and how it may solve problems in fundamental physics. Join my mailing list to get slides from this conversation: briankeating.com. We went…

    2021-01-19
  19. John Preskill – Part 1 – Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Encountering Richard Feynman (#111)
    Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

    Part 1 of 2 Learn about the exciting promise of quantum computing and how it may solve problems in fundamental physics. Join my mailing list to get slides from this conversation: briankeating.com. We…

    2021-01-18
  20. #403: Amazon Scholars
    AWS Podcast

    Since 2018, the Amazon Scholars program has broadened opportunities for academics to join Amazon in a flexible capacity without leaving their academic institutions. Today, Simon is joined by the…

    2020-11-01
  21. #77 - John Preskill
    Y Combinator Startup Podcast

    John Preskill is a theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech.He once won a bet with Steven Hawking, which as he writes made him “briefly almost…

    2018-05-16
  22. Public Lecture: Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier
    Sommerfeld Lecture Series (ASC)

    The quantum laws governing atoms and other tiny objects seem to defy common sense, and information encoded in quantum systems has weird properties that baffle our feeble human minds. John Preskill…

    2016-07-06