In May 2018, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) hosted a workshop on quantum computing, titled Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role. The workshop brought together computer scientists – including computer architects, compiler experts, and programming wonks – with physicists and researchers from quantum computers. A workshop report was released in November, 2018.

The workshop report is now available in a Japanese translation done by the Yoshi-aki Shimada of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) on their Qmedia website, which focuses on quantum technology.

Japan Science and Technology Agency was formed by merging two existing organizations: Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST) and Research Development Corporation of Japan (JRDC). JICST was founded in August 1957 as a Japan’s core institution for science and technology information, with a view to providing the Japanese public with both national and international information on science and technology in a prompt and accurate manner. Meanwhile, JRDC was organized in July 1961 with missions to reduce the country’s dependence on overseas technologies, to select and support outstanding research at universities and public research institutions in Japan, and to promote technology transfer of such research output to the private sector.

 

In October 1996, JICST and JRDC were merged into Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) aiming at both strengthening the infrastructure for the promotion of science and technology in a comprehensive and efficient way, as well as vigorously implementing initiatives set out in the Science and Technology Basic Law. In October 2003, the former JST was reorganized as an independent administrative institution, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

Learn more about the CCC’s Quantum Computing workshop on the workshop webpage.