A Match Made in Yorktown Heights: How One Artist Fostered a Visually Stunning Collaboration

It pays to have friends in fascinating places. You need look no further than the cover of this issue and the article “IBM's Big Bet on the Quantum-Centric Supercomputer” [p. 24] for evidence. The article by Ryan Mandelbaum, Antonio D. Córcoles, and Jay Gambetta came to us courtesy of the article's illustrator, the inimitable graphic artist Carl De Torres, a longtime IEEE Spectrum contributor as well as a design and communications consultant for IBM Research.