Hebrew University and AWS Announce Quantum Research Agreement; AWS Provides Cloud Credits to Isra...

The AWS Center for Quantum Computing, located on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California, will be funding research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem aimed at finding ways of designing quantum gates to improve gate fidelity. This problem is one of the most significant challenges facing the industry in order to reach quantum advantage and this problem is being investigated by many groups worldwide. The effort will be led by Professor Alex Retzker of the AWS Center for Quantum Computing and also The Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University. As a second effort Amazon also announced that it is supporting independent research using Amazon Braket at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Bar-Ilan University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem through their AWS Cloud Credit for Research Program. This program supports academic research by providing credits that can be used on AWS's cloud computers for specific projects. For more about Amazon's activites to support quantum research at universities in Israel, you can view a news release from the Hebrew University here and a blog post on the AWS website here.

April 15, 2021