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NIST Selects 7 Finalists and 8 Alternates for Round 3 of the PQC Standardization Program
As part of the ongoing program to develop a quantum resistant Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standard which started in 2017 with 69...
Jul 22, 20201 min read
NSF Establishes Three Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes with $75 Million in Funding
We reported last year on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) “Big Ideas” concept to fund bold long-term research and process...
Jul 21, 20202 min read
QC Ware Releases New Version of their Forge Software Which Includes New QML Data Loading Algorithms
One of the challenges of implementing a Quantum Machine Learning algorithm (QML) in a quantum computer is initially loading the classical...
Jul 21, 20201 min read
Quantum Leadership Requires Attracting the Best Global Talent
Billboard in Silicon Valley with a Message from the Canadian Government I remember on my first day at Intel my boss took me around for...
Jul 11, 20204 min read
UK Government Provides £7.6 Million ($9.3M USD) Grant for Development of a New Quantum Operating ...
The grant will be made to a consortium led by Riverlane with additional participants from SeeQC, Hitachi Europe, Universal Quantum,...
May 14, 20202 min read
Recap of Two Significant Quantum Events Held Last Week by IBM and Berkeley's Simons Institute
Unfortunately, both events were occurring simultaneously last week so unless you are able to put yourself in a superposition state you...
May 9, 20202 min read
CQC Announces Collaboration with Nippon Steel, a New Release of their t|ket> Software Platform an...
It has been a busy time for Cambridge Quantum Computing with several announcements in the past few days. First, they announced a...
Apr 23, 20202 min read
Zapata Announcing Its Early Access Program to the Orquestra Quantum Workflow Manager
To best understand what Zapata’s Orquestra platform for quantum-enabled workflows does, we recommend you start by looking at the second...
Apr 22, 20203 min read
QuTech Announces Quantum Inspire, Europe’s First Public Quantum Computing Platform
QuTech, a collaboration between TU Delft and TNO is offering the Quantum Inspire system for users who want to try other types of quantum...
Apr 22, 20202 min read
Podcast Explaining Quantum Computing to a Lay Person
I was asked by Richard Jacobs who runs the Finding Genius Podcast to describe some of the basics of quantum computing and the challenges...
Apr 16, 20201 min read
Intel and QuTech Take Step Towards Integrating Classical Logic with Qubits on the Same Chip
One of the potential limiting factors to scaling up a quantum computer to thousand or millions of qubits involves the ability to control...
Apr 15, 20204 min read
ColdQuanta and Partners Awarded Up To $7.4 Million by DARPA to Develop a Cold Atom Based QC Platform
The award was made by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of their ONISQ (Optimization with Noisy...
Apr 10, 20201 min read
PsiQuantum Raises a $150 Million Series C Round Bringing Total Funding to $215 Million
The round was led by Atomico with additional participation from M12 – Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Founders Fund, Blackrock, Redpoint,...
Apr 8, 20203 min read
European Commission Providing 3 Million Euro Grant for a New European Quantum Annealer Project
The AVaQus project will be coordinated by the newly created Quantum Computing Technologies group at the High Energy Physics Institute ...
Apr 2, 20201 min read
Paycheck Protection Program May Be of Help to U.S. Based Quantum Startup Companies
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is offering a new program that may be of interest to small quantum companies that are under...
Mar 29, 20201 min read
DARPA Provides $8.6M Award to Team of Rigetti, NASA-Quail, and USRA for Research in Quantum Optim...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) has provided an $8.6 million award over four years to a team including the...
Mar 27, 20202 min read
Coronavirus and Quantum Computing
As someone who made it through the downturns of the DotCom Bubble and 9/11 Events of 2000-2001 as well as the Financial Crisis of 2008,...
Mar 17, 20207 min read
Google Releases TensorFlow Quantum for Machine Learning and qsim/qsimh High Performance Simulators
TensorFlow was originally released by Google in 2015 as a machine learning system that runs on classical computers including CPUs, GPUs,...
Mar 13, 20202 min read
The Pitfalls of Overreliance on the Quantum Volume Metric
The metric Quantum Volume (QV) has been in the news lately and it deserves a few more words of explanation. This metric was first...
Mar 5, 20204 min read
Honeywell Discloses their QC Roadmap and Investments in Zapata and Cambridge Quantum Computing
In a news release and two different blog articles and technical papers, Honeywell has provided some details on their ion trap quantum...
Mar 4, 20202 min read
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