South Africa Looking to Amp Up 4th Industrial Revolution Workforce Skills

South Africa Looking to Amp Up 4th Industrial Revolution Workforce Skills Government commits to digital skills revolution Excerpts and salient points ~ +  South Africa is committing to the delivery of a ‘skills revolution’ to enable human capital to match the rapid evolution of the digital economy. President Cyril Ramaphosa promised the training of one-million […]

Security and Risk of Emerging Technologies Has U.S. Department of Energy Concerned

Security and Risk of Emerging Technologies Has U.S. Department of Energy Concerned Openness, Security, and APS Activities to Help Maintain the Balance Selected notes ~ +  The success of the scientific enterprise of any nation requires maintaining a balance between being openly collaborative and securely competitive. Recently, in the United States, the current balance has […]

As The World Encrypts; Quantum Cryptography Sought

As The World Encrypts; Quantum Cryptography Sought ‘Golden Age Of SIGINT May Be Over’: New Encryption Foils IC Eavesdropping Key points ~ +  The US government cannot control the skyrocketing use of encrypted communications that allow adversaries, terrorists, criminals — and ordinary folks who care deeply about privacy, including journalists — to block eavesdropping by […]

Virginia Tech Team Advances Quantum Simulations On Noisy Quantum Computers

Virginia Tech Team Advances Quantum Simulations On Noisy Quantum Computers Virginia Tech researchers lead breakthrough in quantum computing Selected notes ~ +  The large, error-correcting quantum computers envisioned today could be decades away, yet experts are vigorously trying to come up with ways to use existing and near-term quantum processors to solve useful problems despite […]

Chicago Quantum Exchange is Making Large-scale Quantum Networks a Reality

Chicago Quantum Exchange is Making Large-scale Quantum Networks a Reality UChicago jumpstarts collaborations with national labs in AI, quantum Excerpts and salient points ~ +  The University of Chicago is seeding promising projects with Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the emerging fields of artificial intelligence and quantum science. “When you put […]