Australia Setting ‘Fast-track’ Process to Lure Migrants with Quantum Information Science Skills

Australia Setting ‘Fast-track’ Process to Lure Migrants with Quantum Information Science Skills Australia to ‘fast-track’ permanent residency for highly-skilled tech migrants Excerpts and salient points ~ +  A newly established permanent migration scheme for highly-skilled technologists will target seven “future-focused fields”, including cyber security, fintech and quantum computing, in a bid to maintain Australia’s competitiveness. […]

Pulling Funding from Ontario an Ominous Action

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Pulling Funding from Ontario an Ominous Action Ontario’s quantum computing edge at risk amid Ford government funding squeeze Key points… +  Ontario spent tens of millions of dollars to establish a quantum computing institute in Waterloo as a world-leading research hub. But industry watchers worry the province could squander its head start after the Ford […]

Chicago Quantum Exchange Goes Global

Chicago Quantum Exchange Goes Global Chicago Quantum Exchange announces first international partners Excerpts and salient points ~ +  QuTech, a partnership between the Delft University of Technology and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, and the University of New South Wales in Australia are now part of one of the largest collaborative teams working […]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Part in Quantum Supremacy

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Part in Quantum Supremacy Quantum processors are now challenging conventional HPC systems Full release… To prove quantum supremacy, a joint research team from Google Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), needed to rule out that classical supercomputers could perform computational tasks at […]

“Quantum Supremacy” Achieved Through America’s Unparalleled Innovation Ecosystem

“Quantum Supremacy” Achieved Through America’s Unparalleled Innovation Ecosystem Google has received ample ogling the past several days.  Lest we forget, it’s the U.S. free market, government, academia, and industrial sectors which collectively resulted in this feat; it was all competitor’s “Sputnik Moment”.  Because Quantum is Coming.  Qubit. How America Achieved “Quantum Supremacy” Key points… +  […]

Australia’s Cyber Emergency: Lack of a High-tech Workforce

Australia’s Cyber Emergency: Lack of a High-tech Workforce Australia is facing a looming cyber emergency, and we don’t have the high-tech workforce to counter it In brief… +  Australia’s social scientists and the intelligence agencies have a new joint role in protecting the country, but may need a more tech-savvy workforce to get there. Australia’s current […]

Shaping Nanoparticles for Improved Quantum Information Technology

Shaping Nanoparticles for Improved Quantum Information Technology Shaping nanoparticles for improved quantum information technology From the Media Release ~ Particles that are mere nanometers in size are at the forefront of scientific research today. They come in many different shapes: rods, spheres, cubes, vesicles, S-shaped worms and even donut-like rings. What makes them worthy of […]

ColdQuanta Receives $1M from NASA to Advance Commercializing Quantum Systems

ColdQuanta Receives $1M from NASA to Advance Commercializing Quantum Systems ColdQuanta to Accelerate Commercial Deployment of Quantum Atomic Systems Points to note… +  ColdQuanta announced it has been awarded $1M from NASA’s Civilian Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program (CCRPP). The program will enable ColdQuanta to develop significantly smaller cold atom systems with a high level of […]