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Implementing the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) with Open Source Software Entropica releases QAOA package for Rigetti’s Quantum Cloud Service Points to note… + QAOA is an algorithm designed for near-term quantum computers, and has applications to both machine learning and discrete optimisation. The EntropicaQAOA […]
Maryland Teens Form Quantum Computing Club Students from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, have formed a quantum computing club. Club captain Ayush Varshney, a junior at the school, indicates big plans. Aside from lectures, the club also has engaging in-school […]
Google’s Nascent Quantum Supremacy has “Zip” Effect on Bitcoin In case you have not heard… Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit. Antonopoulos: Google’s ‘Quantum Supremacy’ Has No Impact on Bitcoin In brief… + “What is the effect on mining and the cryptocurrency world in general? Zip, […]
Quantum Computing Inc to Represent the U.S.; Taking Quantum Computing Efforts to UAE Quantum Computing to join key Business Council trade mission to UAE Key points… + Quantum Computing Inc. announced Wednesday that it will join the large US-UAE Business Council trade mission to the […]
Q# from Microsoft Continues Capturing the Curious Understanding quantum computing and Q# Excerpts and salient points ~ + Kitty Yeung joined Microsoft as a creative technologist and Bay Area manager of The Garage back in 2018. When she joined there was a strong and growing […]
Google’s Quantum Control Optimization Though reported back in April, this article [at the source] has a collection of disruptive technology ‘news items’ raising some interesting questions. Not all are directly related to quantum computing…yet. Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit. Google causes more facial-recog pain, machine […]
British Columbia Funding Quantum Algorithms Institute Province commits $17M to quantum computing institute Excerpts and salient points ~ + The province is committing $17 million over five years toward a new quantum computing institute at Surrey’s Simon Fraser University campus. “This is only a beginning […]
Quantum Information Science Research Gets a Boo$t from the U.S. DoE Department of Energy Announces $21.4 Million for Quantum Information Science Research Selected notes ~ + [T]he U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $21.4 million in funding for research in Quantum Information Science (QIS) related […]
QC Ware Finds Opportunity Among Quantum Computing Competitors QC Ware launches Forge platform for easy access to quantum computing Key points… + QC Ware appears to have spotted an opportunity in what is an increasingly crowded and fragmented quantum computing landscape. Multiple firms including Google […]
Industry Reacts to Google’s Quantum Supremacy Claim Industry reaction to Google’s quiet claim of quantum supremacy Excerpts and salient points ~ + On September 20, the Financial Times reported that a Google research paper temporarily posted online said Google’s quantum computer has reached “quantum supremacy,” […]
Quantum Supremacy, What Is It Anyhow? What Is Quantum Supremacy, and Why Is It Such a Computing Milestone? Excerpts and salient points ~ + Quantum supremacy means only that researchers have been able to use a quantum computer to perform a single calculation that no […]
On the Lighter Side: Learn to Code Quantum Computers; There’s a Future There Does coding really help students for new-age job? In brief… + Coding is a buzzword today, and is creative and fun, but can coding benefit your career? Can it really prepare you […]
Startup Aliro Nets $2.7M for Quantum Hardware Software Aliro Raises $2.7 Million Spun Out of Harvard University’s Quantum Computing Lab Full release… CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Aliro Technologies, a software company that commercializes technologies making today’s quantum hardware more accessible, today announced […]
With Fresh Funding, QC WARE Hires Top Quantum Computing Algorithm Experts QC Ware Hires Leading Minds in Quantum Computing to Build Algorithms that will Power the Next Evolution in Computing Full release… QC Ware, a leading developer of applications that run on quantum computers, today […]
Grover’s Algorithm a Property of Nature? An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature In brief… + Despite the interest, implementing Grover’s algorithm has taken time because of the significant technical challenges involved. The first quantum computer capable of implementing it appeared […]
Partnership Seeks to Accelerate Development and Practical Use of Quantum Algorithms ABN AMRO and QuSoft join hands to explore the power of quantum software Points to note… + Quantum algorithms allow companies and researchers to enter a whole new world of technological possibilities. In the […]
Global VC bets on Australian quantum computing start-up Q-CTRL in US$15m Series A The investment from top VCs will ensure Q-CTRL’s ‘quantum firmware’ becomes ubiquitous in the race to build the first practical quantum computers Media Release, Tuesday 10 September EDT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA – […]
Overview and Update on the NIST Post-quantum Computing Effort If you have been out-of-sync with the NIST effort, the full work is worth the view. See source below. Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit. How the United States Is Developing Post-Quantum Cryptography Excerpts and salient points […]
IBM and JPMorgan Chase Use of Quantum Algorithms in Finance Quantum algorithms for financial derivatives Points to note… + In the finance industry, options, or more generally financial derivatives, are contracts that give their owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell […]
QC WARE Sought for Quantum Algorithm Expertise; Receives Sizeable Dept. of Energy Grant QC Ware’s Leadership in Quantum Algorithms for Chemistry Applications Boosted by US DoE Grant Full release… QC Ware, along with other members of a SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory-led research consortium, has been […]
Encryption as a Service (EaaS); Could this Work with Quantum-resistant Algorithms? EaaS is an interesting offering showing more availability with the growth of the cloud. A number of vendors are out there promoting EaaS. However, from our quick research, none mention quantum computing or quantum-resistant […]
Atos Delivers Quantum-Learning-as-a-Service to Xofia to Enable Artificial Intelligence Solutions via Quantum Algorithms Atos delivers Quantum-Learning-as-a-Service to Xofia to enable artificial intelligence solutions Full release… Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announced the delivery of Quantum-Learning-as-a-Service (QLaaS) to Xofia to help develop quantum-powered […]
IBM to Implement Quantum-safe Algorithms in the Cloud IBM Drives Quantum-Safe Cryptography Into Its Public Cloud Selected notes ~ + IBM will begin offering quantum-safe cryptography services on its public cloud beginning next year in a move toward bolstering the security of data and privacy […]
Discussion of Cryptography, the Quantum Computing Threat, and What NIST Is Doing for Us Cryptographers scramble to protect the internet from attackers armed with quantum computers Excerpts and salient points ~ + A full-fledged quantum computer is still years, if not decades, away. But developers […]
Fujitsu is Working Toward 1M Qubit Quantum Annealer A rather comprehensive description of Fujitsu’s quantum annealing systems and aspirations. Granted, it is brought to you by Fujitsu, effectively. The piece provides a backdrop on the quantum annealing aspect of quantum computing. Because Quantum is Coming. […]
Link-layer Protocol Could Bring a Quantum Internet Sooner Rather Than Later World’s first link layer protocol brings quantum internet closer to a reality Excerpts and salient points ~ + In classical computing, a collection of software layers referred to as the network stack allows computers […]
NIST’s Post-quantum Cryptography Semi-finals This Week Bitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer In brief… + Want to steal some Bitcoin? All you need to do is find your victim’s 16-character public key and calculate their private key by solving something called an “elliptic curve […]
Forget the Entanglement; Here’s Quantum Error Correction Without It Quantum error correction assisted quantum metrology without entanglement Excerpts and salient points ~ + Quantum information science has gained prominence as an area of research in the recent decades. One of the key promises of the […]
Quantum-safe Application Program Interface to be Challenged in Cyber Hackathon IronCAP Challenges Top Hackers with Availability of New “Quantum Safe” API Key points… + 01 Communique Laboratory Inc. has reached a major milestone with the launch of the IronCAP Application Program Interface (“API”). IronCAP’s patent-pending […]
Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence and The Cyber Threat Landscape Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and the laws of encryption Key points… + Quantum computing took off in the early 90s and is now emerging as the next generation of computing. Operations that take hours and days, […]
Accenture Patents for Quantum Computing Stretch into Real-time Electricity Production Accenture Pushes Deeper Into Quantum Computing Key points… + In April, Accenture received a patent for an algorithm that business clients could employ to recommend either a quantum computer or a classical system for solving […]
Quantum Computing Inc Takes It’s Quantum Computing Efforts Public (Ticker: QUBT) Quantum Computing flies as it gets bumped up to the OTCQB Market Excerpts and salient points ~ + The Leesburg, Virginia, company’s stock now trades under the ticker QUBT on the middle-tier OTC Market […]
Allowing Quantum Developers to Exploit the Power of Quantum Turing Machine Models Introducing Control Flow in Qubit Allocation for Quantum Turing Machines Key points… + Different platforms for quantum computation are currently being developed with a steadily increasing number of physical qubits. To make today’s […]
Clearer Understanding of Quantum-to-Classical Transition Gained with LANL Algorithm Quantum computers to clarify the connection between the quantum and classical worlds Full release… Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a new quantum computing algorithm that offers a clearer understanding of the quantum-to-classical transition, which […]
Development of Quantum Hardware Outpacing Quantum Algorithms; Working Group Aims to Bring in Synch Shortages are everywhere for individuals with quantum computing backgrounds. Code developer, research, and engineering positions are readily available. Qubit is for hire. Professional career in cybersecurity, research and writing for mid […]
Quantum Simulation Software, QuEST, Spans Architectures; Here’s a Comparative Study with Project Q, qHipster, and Quantum++ QuEST and High Performance Simulation of Quantum Computers Excerpts and salient points ~ + QuEST, the Quantum Exact Simulation Toolkit, is the first open source, hybrid multi-threaded and distributed, […]
Fast Fourier Transform, Quantum Fourier Transform, Next Quantum Algorithm… Quantum interference in the service of information technology Excerpts and salient points ~ + Scientists from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, in collaboration with the University of Oxford and NIST, have shown that quantum […]
U.S. DoE Developing Quantum Monte Carlo Methods Software – QMCPACK ECP Project Enabling Highly Accurate Computer Simulations of Complex Materials Excerpts and salient points ~ + An effort within the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is developing a QMC (quantum Monte-Carlo) methods […]
Wanted: Quantum Workforce. Needed: Quantum Workforce. Quantum Computers Might Save the World — If Companies Can Find Workers to Build Them Excerpts and salient points ~ + Speaking at Fortune’s annual Brainstorm Tech conference Monday in Aspen, Colo., Microsoft general manager of quantum software Krysta […]
Qudits Beat Out Qubits with New Quantum Gate Research Researchers build transistor-like gate for quantum information processing – with qudits Excerpts and salient points ~ + Purdue University researchers are among the first to build a gate – what could be a quantum version of […]
Purdue University Collaboration Advance Quantum Machine Learning Discovery Park to host International Quantum Machine Learning and Data Analytics Workshop Excerpts and salient points ~ + With the rapid development of quantum computers, a number of quantum algorithms have been developed and tested on both superconducting […]
Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit is Now Open Source on GitHub Open Source Release Welcomes Developers to Contribute and Help Solve Planet-Scale Challenge Excerpts and salient points ~ + [Microsoft’s] Quantum mission is to develop and deploy the world’s most scalable, secure, quantum computing system and […]
There’s Always a Bigger Fish ~ Rigetti Acquires QxBranch. Rigetti Computing acquires QxBranch to expand full-stack capabilities Excerpts and salient points ~ + Rigetti Computing… acquired QxBranch, a quantum computing and data analytics software startup. The acquisition builds on Rigetti’s full-stack strategy and expands the […]
Osaka City University Develops Quantum Algorithm to Verify Quantum Computing Results Quantum Chemistry on Quantum Computers Excerpts and salient points ~ + Researchers from Osaka City University (OCU) in Japan, Dr. K. Sugisaki, Profs. K. Sato and T. Takui and coworkers have found a novel […]
Argonne National Laboratory Using Hybrid Computing to Boost Quantum Computing Power The best of both worlds: how to solve real problems on modern quantum computers Excerpts and salient points ~ + In recent years, quantum devices have become available that enable researchers — for the […]
The Race for Quantum Computing: U.K. Status Excellent discussion and tracking of the U.K. MoD quantum programme and related U.K. Government initiatives. The race for quantum computing is surely on. Qubit. Mapping the Race to Quantum Computing: The UK National Quantum Technologies Programme – The […]
IBM Partners with Europe to Move Quantum Information Science IBM has been enjoying a rapid expansion of its IBM Q Network of institutions involved with quantum information science. Having added numerous schools and organizations in the U.S., going overseas appears to be the company’s trend. […]