TQD Quantum Ethics Exclusive: Qubit by Qubit’s Mission is to Train a Diverse Quantum Workforce
Quantum Ethics: Continuing the Conversation. One of the critical issues that surfaced in our survey on quantum ethics is the need for accessibility, diversity and inclusion as both an industry and societal good. In this story, we present work done by Qubit by Qubit to improve diversity and accessibility through educational programs targeted at high […]
13 Historically Black Colleges & Universities Join IBM Quantum Center
Silver Lining Even though the US seems to be divided more along racial lines these days than at any point during the last six decades — not helped by the toxic atmosphere of the political system and the COVID-19 pandemic — there are always stories that lean towards the positivity still left in the country. One such […]
Quantum Applications for SETI: A Perspective
Space encourages us to expand our horizons in search of extraterrestrial life and other worlds. There has been an exciting frenzy over the numerous exoplanet finds in the past decade. The James Webb Space Telescope, the newest and largest telescope ever built, is due for launch this 2021. It will be pointing soon at some […]
For Quantum Systems to Emerge — They May Also Need to Learn How to Merge, Say Physicists
Today’s quantum computers contain up to several dozen memory and processing units, the so-called qubits. Severin Daiss, Stefan Langenfeld, and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have successfully interconnected two such qubits located in different labs to a distributed quantum computer by linking the qubits with a 60-meter-long optical fiber. […]
New Platform’s Mission To Accelerate Quantum Computing Education
Scarcity One of the biggest obstacles for the establishment of a fluid quantum workforce is the dearth of platforms offering educational opportunities within the industry — and though this is nothing surprising for a nascent sector, the quicker entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and governments realize this, the better it will be for all of us. And though platforms […]
Startup’s Solution To Post-Quantum Security Helped Along By Leading Cryptography Academic
Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Words of Wisdom It sometimes pains me to write articles such as Top Ten… or Twenty-Five of The Best… and other such listicle offerings — not because I don’t like writing them, because I do. Apart from the odd email complaint TQD receives about so-so startups or company’s exclusion on this or that […]
Academic and Industry Collaborations Guide the ‘Made in Germany’ Quantum Processor Project
The race for the quantum computer is in full swing. Germany has long been a world leader in basic research. A merger between Forschungszentrum Jülich and the semiconductor manufacturer Infineon now wants the results together with institutes of the Fraunhofer Society (IAF, IPMS), the Leibniz Association (IHP, IKZ), the universities in Regensburg and Konstanz and […]
CrownBio and JSR Life Sciences Partner with Cambridge Quantum Computing to Leverage Quantum Machine Learning for Novel Cancer Treatment Biomarker Discovery
Crown Bioscience (CrownBio), JSR Life Sciences and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced a partnership agreement to explore the application of quantum technology to drive the identification of multi-gene biomarker discovery for oncology drug discovery, according to a statement from the companies. The partnership will combine CrownBio’s domain expertise and vast data sets generated from […]
IonQ to Go Public Via SPAC?
College Park, Maryland-based IonQ may be the first US-based pure-play quantum company to go public through a SPAC. Bloomberg is reporting that the company is in talks to merge with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, DMY Technology Group Inc. (NYSE:DMYI). A SPAC is a company that is formed strictly to raise capital through […]
Finnish Team Pushing The Boundaries of The Impossible by Channelling The Power of QC & Algorithms
Image by David Peterson from Pixabay Respected In Their Fields About a year ago, I wrote a post for TQD covering some of the most influential women in the quantum tech industry today. The article, 12 Women Pioneering The World Of Quantum Computing, covered some high-profile people like Michelle Simmons and Krysta Svore, as well others who […]