As Herzog muses on the depressing ugliness of institutional hallways in an academic building on campus, we see a trim older gentleman,
computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock, leading the camera through a doorway that leads to the room where the Internet was born in 1969.
Others have devised and even built such small - scale cooling systems, says
Leonard Schulman, a
professor of
computer science at the California Institute of Technology, but the distinction in the new work is that it is self - contained — the qubits do not need to receive instructions from outside the system.