On August 4th from 1-2:30pm ET, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will hold a webinar answering questions about the NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL), Quantum Science and Technology Demonstrations (QSTD): I. Pilot Phase, solicitation, NSF 23-604. The National Quantum Initiative (NQI) Act aims to maintain the United States’ leadership in quantum information science and technology. To achieve this, the NQI emphasizes the identification and early adoption of quantum technologies to transform the field of Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) and have broader impacts on society. The approach involves integrating end-users and potential customers from various fields of science and engineering, facilitating research, development, and demonstration cycles to lower barriers for […]

Computer scientists have been attempting to harness the power of quantum computing for over two decades. Traditional computers perform calculations sequentially, one at a time. In contrast, quantum computers leverage the unique properties of sub-atomic particles, such as existing in multiple places simultaneously and demonstrating instantaneous connections across vast distances to successfully transfer quantum information between computer chips at unprecedented speeds and accuracy. So far, institutions such as Google, IBM and Microsoft have only been able to achieve simple quantum machines. A new breakthrough development in quantum, led by Professor Winfried Hensinger of Sussex University and highlighted in a recent BBC article, promises to move the needle closer to harnessing […]

The following is a blog post from the ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has also done work in the quantum computing (QC) space, including hosting a recent workshop called Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role. The workshop brought together an interdisciplinary crowd of colleagues from classical computer science disciplines as well as domain-experts from quantum computing. It addressed the huge gap between problems for which a quantum computer might be useful (such as chemistry problems, material science problems, etc) and what we can currently build, program, and run. The goal of the QC research community, as is briefly mentioned in the blog below, is to close the gap so […]