The Week in Quantum Computing - August 9th
Issue #48
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto) and The Quantum World Association.
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Quick Recap
Atom computing raises $15M and releases their Phoenix system. Arqit releases QuantumCloud. IDQ and Alibaba to work together on q. encryption for their cloud. Multiverse joins the Strangeworks systems and releases their algorithms on Excel!
The Quote of the Week
"I like things that don't have a right or wrong answer"
Cynthia Barnhart - civil engineer. Former chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering . Associate dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering.
The Summary of the Week
Atom Computing Unveils Phoenix Quantum Computing
A few of the folks STH has worked with over the years are now at a UC Berkeley originated startup called Atom Computing. The company announced that it now has $15M USD in series A funding.
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August 01, 2021 at 10:30AM
Multiverse Computing Diversifies its Quantum Hardware Access by partnering with Strangeworks
Multiverse Computing LLC has joined the Strangeworks Quantum Syndicate™ to enable their team to develop financial applications utilizing quantum hardware providers available through the Strangeworks ecosystem.
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August 01, 2021 at 11:30AM
Arqit Releases QuantumCloud™ to Deliver Stronger, Simpler Encryption
LONDON, August 02, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arqit Limited ("Arqit"), a leader in quantum encryption technology announces the release of the first version of its service, QuantumCloud™ 1.0.
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August 02, 2021 at 09:30AM
Quantum computing's next challenge? Finding quantum developers, and fast
System architects, software engineers, data analysts -- at first glance, the jobs that are hot in the quantum computing sector don't sound all that different from the tech roles we're already familiar with, and which deal with the classical computers we know well, from smartphones to supercomputers.
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August 03, 2021 at 08:30AM
Q-CTRL, University of Sydney Devise Machine Learning Technique Used to Pinpoint Quantum Errors
July 29, 2021 — Researchers at the University of Sydney and quantum control startup Q-CTRL today announced a way to identify sources of error in quantum computers through machine learning, providing hardware developers the ability to pinpoint performance degradation with unprecedented accuracy and
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August 03, 2021 at 09:30AM
New viable means of storing information for quantum technologies?
Quantum information could be behind the next technological revolution. By analogy with the bit in classical computing, the qubit is the basic element of quantum computing. However, demonstrating the existence of this information storage unit and using it remains complex, and hence limited.
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August 03, 2021 at 07:30PM
SINGULARITY by MULTIVERSE COMPUTING: how to use a Quantum Computer directly from your Spreadsheet, without being a Quantum Engineer
Multiverse Computing releases Singularity spreadsheet app for quantum investment optimization. Multiverse Computing’s vision is to make powerful quantum computing algorithms easy and accesible to everyone.
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August 04, 2021 at 04:30PM
Researchers run complex quantum computing algorithms on traditional computers
EPFL Professor Giuseppe Carleo and a graduate student from Columbia University named Matija Medvidović have found a way to execute a complex quantum computing algorithm on a traditional computer. Typically executing quantum software requires the use of a quantum computer.
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August 05, 2021 at 06:30PM
Alibaba adds IDQ’s QRNG to its cloud-based services, to improve the security of financial transactions
In its latest report published in Nature, Alibaba shows how QRNGs with intrinsic unpredictability can be used to greatly enhance the security of cryptosystems. Alibaba has tested the use of QRNG for their online services (e.g.
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August 05, 2021 at 07:30PM
What Could Make Quantum Computing Easy to Explain?
That’s great advice, but it is also kind of vacuous since you could say the same thing about digital computers, or a toaster for that matter. The problem with the explanations of quantum computing as they exist today is not that they are overly simple — it is that they are overly detailed.
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August 06, 2021 at 09:30AM
Quantum Computing Inc. Announces QUBT University
LEESBURG, Va., Aug. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Quantum Computing Inc. (the “company” or “QCI”) (Nasdaq: QUBT) today announced its QUBT University program (QUBT U). The program will empower qualified students to get hands-on experience with quantum computing and quantum-ready algorithms like QUBO and QAOA by providing access to QCI’s flagship product Qatalyst™, a ready-to-run software for solving complex optimization problems on both classical and quantum computers, as well as quantum educational resources.