Absence of Standards, Absence of Plans — Savvy Cybersecurity Leaders Must Get Engaged in Quantum Preparation
Absence of Standards, Absence of Plans — Savvy Cybersecurity Leaders Must Get Engaged in Quantum Preparation Take the First Steps To Quantum-Safe Security Now to Avoid Mistakes Later In brief… + The security risk posed by quantum computers is existential: As Dr. Deborah Frincke, director of the National Security Agency’s research branch, has pointed out, […]
ColdQuanta Rakes in ~30M USD from Government Contracts and Grants
ColdQuanta Rakes in ~30M USD from Government Contracts and Grants ColdQuanta Closes Additional $10M in Seed Financing Full release… Brings total investment from private and public sources to approximately $24M over the past 18 months ColdQuanta, Inc., the quantum atomics company, today announced it has closed $10M in additional seed round equity financing from its current […]
University of Waterloo Aims at Quantum Computer Performance Standards
University of Waterloo Aims at Quantum Computer Performance Standards Researchers reach milestone in quantum standardization Selected notes ~ + Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a method that could pave the way to establishing universal standards for measuring the performance of quantum computers. + The new method, called cycle benchmarking, allows researchers to […]
DARPA Awards Quantum Machine Learning Contract; Xanadu’s PennyLane is Key
DARPA Awards Quantum Machine Learning Contract; Xanadu’s PennyLane is Key Xanadu awarded DARPA grant to further advance quantum machine learning Full release ~ PennyLane, the company’s cross-platform software for quantum machine learning, will be central to the team’s work. TORONTO, Nov. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ – Xanadu, a full-stack quantum computing and advanced AI company developing […]
National Quantum Initiative Act Signed by President Trump Building U.S. Quantum Ecosystem Strength
National Quantum Initiative Act Signed by President Trump Building U.S. Quantum Information Science Strength Air Force Research Laboratory joins Quantum Economic Development Consortium Full release… The Air Force Research Laboratory has announced that it is joining the Quantum Economic Development Consortium, established in 2018 as a direct result of the National Quantum Initiative Act. The […]
U.S. Updates Strategic Computing Initiative
U.S. Updates Strategic Computing Initiative Though light in mentioning quantum computing and quantum technologies specifically, the strategy does call out the topic in terms of hardware and algorithms (firmware, software). NVIDIA response to the RFI: “Looking forward, the practical realization of slowing technology scaling will likely require a range of approaches including: (1) architectures that […]
Denver Hosting Supercomputing 2019 (SC19); Argonne National Laboratory Researchers to Tout Quantum Computing
Denver Hosting Supercomputing 2019 (SC19); Argonne National Laboratory Researchers to Tout Quantum Computing ARGONNE RESEARCHERS TO SHARE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING INSIGHTS AT SC19 Full release… The Supercomputing 2019 (SC19) conference, scheduled for November 17–22 in Denver, will bring together the global high-performance computing (HPC) community, including researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National […]
NIST Hyper-speed Light Switch May Help Realize Quantum Computing with Photons
NIST Hyper-speed Light Switch May Help Realize Quantum Computing with Photons What a Switch! NIST-Led Team Develops Tiny Low-Energy Device to Rapidly Reroute Light in Computer Chips Full release… Artist’s depiction of newly demonstrated nano-opto-electro-mechanical switches as they could be used for future filtering of colors for sensing or communications. In communications, the amount of […]
Illinois Express Quantum Network to Receive $3.2M From the U.S. Department of Energy
Illinois Express Quantum Network to Receive $3.2M From the U.S. Department of Energy DOE awards Fermilab and partners $3.2 million for Illinois quantum network Full release… The proposed Illinois Express Quantum Network is a metropolitan-scale, quantum-classical hybrid design combining quantum technologies with existing classical networks to create a multinode system for multiple users. The Department […]
Tencent Quantum Lab Director States China Lags Behind U.S., Europe in the Race for Quantum Computing
Tencent Quantum Lab Director States China Lags Behind U.S., Europe in the Race for Quantum Computing China trails US, Europe in quantum computing development: researcher In brief… + Zhang Shengyu, a prominent researcher at Chinese tech giant Tencent, said that China will not be able to match the US and Europe in quantum computing “within […]