To Be In a Quantum-ready World Means What? What happens when cyber attackers reach quantum-advantage? Points to note… + Moore says that the long and short of it is that all data encrypted with legacy cryptography would be “at risk”. There is this “storm coming […]
Accepting ‘Quantum Volume’ as a Metric for Quantum Computers Why quantum volume is vital for plotting the path to quantum advantage Key points… + Measuring the computational ability of quantum computers is—as is anything involving quantum systems—a complex problem. Counting the number of qubits in […]
Building the U.S. Quantum Industry U.S. Consortium Pulls Ecosystem Into Quantum Selected notes ~ + The U.S. government is fostering the idea of quantum computing as a nascent industry on a typical technology trajectory—one that the U.S. wants to dominate. The National Quantum Initiative Act […]
Update to the 7 “Best” Quantum Computing Stocks Seeing past the investment potential of these companies, this recap has some insight as to what the largest companies are doing toward quantum computing. Nokia is a bit under-the-radar and has an interesting mention in the piece. […]
“Generating Pure Randomness” How to Turn a Quantum Computer Into the Ultimate Randomness Generator Excerpts and salient points ~ + Randomness is crucial for almost everything we do with our computational and communications infrastructure. In particular, it’s used to encrypt data, protecting everything from mundane […]
Neven’s Law & The Doubly Exponential Rate of Quantum Computing Power A new “law” Suggests Quantum Supremacy Could Happen This Year Excerpts and salient points ~ + In December 2018, scientists at Google AI ran a calculation on Google’s best quantum processor. They were able […]
IBM’s Quantum Computing Outreach is for Its Survival How to Build an Ecosystem Strategy… Excerpts and salient points ~ + By 1980, IBM had hit an inflection point. It had already missed out on the minicomputer revolution. Now, with new, even smaller “microcomputers” evolving into […]
Middle East, Quantum Computing, and FOMO The Gulf embraces quantum power Excerpts and salient points ~ + Universities in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE have already launched quantum computing research groups to help cultivate homegrown knowledge of the technology that is set to transform […]
Training Workers for Quantum Computing Quantum Computing 101: Brilliant, Google, Microsoft Training Workers Excerpts and salient points ~ + From Microsoft and IBM to Alphabet’s unit X and Canada’s D-Wave Systems, companies are racing to build powerful quantum computers that may solve problems beyond the […]
IBM continues to show unanticipated progress towards what will become a Quantum backed AI Excerpts and salient points ~ + IBM has the largest public Quantum effort and arguably has the lead in Quantum Computing development though companies like Alphabet, Intel, and Microsoft are accelerating […]
Honeywell’s Quantum Leap: “As good as or better than…” Honeywell International Inc. threw down the gauntlet to Google and IBM in the race to create a new kind of supercomputer, announcing its own breakthrough in the arcane world of quantum mechanics. “We have a very […]
Automotive Industry Sees Billions in Quantum Computing. VW and D-Wave, Bosch [parts] and Zapata Computing, Ford and NASA, Daimler and IBM (and Google) and the list is growing. The automotive industry is partnering with the budding quantum computing industry all the while exploring first uses […]
Implementing Ethics Principles In Quantum Computing The tech ethics community is at an inflection point. The broad and pervasive applications of Artificial Intelligence and other technologies are no longer a future possibility but an immediate potential harm. As practitioners, we need to respect that urgency […]
Upgrading and Knowing Your Qubits, “logical qubits”, “error-corrected qubits”… With the number of institutions in the race for research and development of a stable and controllable qubit, it is understandable an article of this length and depth could be written. Thorough piece for the layperson. […]
Quantum Computing Report: The Cryptopocalypse is Coming. A reminder of the basics of cryptography, quantum computing, and the threat to, and vulnerability of encryption, is the way to get the week started. Lost in the shine of quantum computing technology recently, the vulnerability of your […]
Increasing Qubit Control the Bristlecone Way. Google has been working on improving Bristlecone’s qubit control. New circuits have been developed which control its qubits from within the quantum computer’s cooling system. The number of physical connections between the quantum information processing units has been reduced. Fewer […]
What is Quantum Computing? The curious of the world are discovering quantum computing, often asking questions those familiar with the technology have heard all too often. What is quantum computing? What are the types of quantum computing solutions being studied? Who are the “champions of […]
Seriously, When Will Quantum Computing Have “Real” Commercial Value, or Does it Now? Nobody knows. So says the expertise at IEEE Spectrum. The team there has a series of articles, smartly linked, which try to answer this question. There’s an ebb and flow to when, […]
D-Wave’s Annealer-type Quantum Computer Up to the Test. U.S. Government laboratories, NASA, and Lockheed Martin are running D-Wave’s quantum annealer through the ringer. Not necessarily to solve hard problems as envisioned, but to gain insight and experience on how to approach these puzzles from the […]
IonQ’s Trapped Ion Computing Beating IBM, Google, Rigetti. Though ‘slow’ in operation and impractically large, trapped ion quantum computing from IonQ is beating out IBM, Google, and Rigetti with accuracy and scalability. Reference is found at TECHSPOT…
#2 in Cloud Trends…Quantum Computing. Much in the way of business benefits come with cloud computing. For 2019, quantum computing ranks #20. Found at Entrepreneur India…
Google and NASA Contracting Bristlecone’s Quantum Computing Services. Google is in contract with NASA to test for quantum supremacy of its Bristlecone 72-qubit quantum computer. Due to the quantum computer’s inherent environmental challenges, the NASA team will connect via cloud services for software and quantum […]
Capturing the Commoner’s Eye: Too Expensive, but Getting There via Cloud. $2000 per hour is a rough quantum computing cost-estimate. Affordable by only the wealthiest organizations, how will enterprises adopt the technology which stands to break encryption without breaking the bank? Through cloud offerings. […]