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Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication, ensuring that only the intended recipient can read the message by converting it into an unreadable format (ciphertext) and back to readable format (plaintext) using a secret key. It plays a crucial role in modern cybersecurity, protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access and ensuring data integrity and confidentiality.
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Today’s Brief Commentary: This week, I am Brooklyn-bound, and I’ll be hosting a panel on Thursday at the Forma Prime Demo Day as part of NYC Deep Tech Week hosted by Hyperstition. The panel is called “The Unadorned Truth about the State of Quantum Computing,” and I’ll be joined by Dr. Olivia Lanes of IBM…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today, we have two links to recent videocasts with me, three regarding post-quantum cryptography, and two for quantum computing. Each of the latter two categories includes variations of quantum hype. The first, from WIRED, is of the flavor “quantum computing is going to demolish classical security, and there will be an apocalypse.”…
Welcome to Wine Down Friday! Today, we explore the fascinating world of quantum technology with Bob Sutor, a leading expert in the field. From theoretical mathematics to leadership in AI, blockchain, and quantum computing, Bob shares insights into qubits, superposition, and entanglement—key concepts driving the future of computing. We also discuss quantum advancements in cryptography…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Most of the links today concern financial news regarding earnings announcements of public quantum computing companies or funding of private companies. IonQ and Rigetti Computing have already announced their Q4 and Fiscal Year 2024 results, and I link to my analysis of each. D-Wave announces this week. There’s also some news about…
“Following on from the success and momentum of Quantum.Tech in Washington D.C. in April 2024, we are returning to the US capital once again. Mark your calendar and save the date, April 14 (Cryptography Spotlight Day) and April 15-16 (Main Conference) as Quantum.Tech USA returns even bigger and better. 2025 will welcome 450+ thought leaders…
What Happened? On Wednesday, February 26, 2025, trapped ion quantum computing and networking company IonQ announced its financial results for the Q4 2024 quarter and 2024 fiscal year ending December 31, 2024. See its press release for the full details. The Numbers While quarterly income was up an impressive 91.8% from Q4 2023, it was…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today, I am directing my remarks toward quantum computing companies, particularly small ones. Many of your websites need work. Here are a few suggestions: Be explicit about your quantum computing modality and paradigm. For example: “We implement the digital paradigm using neutral atom qubits.” Say you support specific quantum software development kit…
Today’s Brief Commentary: At the Inside Quantum Technologies Quantum + AI conference in October, I gave the talk “Quantum AI: A Quantum Computing Industry Perspective.” In it, I included the following slide: Now, I was joking, sort of, but this notion of combining the two technologies is not new. While I was at IBM…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This last week has been the first of 2025 when the stock prices for public quantum companies have not dominated discussions. That topic is not going away, but we are beginning to see more announcements of solid…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This is my last quantum newsletter for 2024, and I’m anxious to get going with 2025. This year had many highlights but was marred by extra hype and public misunderstandings in the last several weeks. I don’t…
Today’s Brief Commentary I’m writing this on the afternoon of December 10, the first full day of Q2B Silicon Valley in Santa Clara. Today’s news links have a few items from last week, more world leadership, which I have highlighted, and important news from Infleqtion/NVIDIA and Google. Infleqtion has now demonstrated logical qubits via NVIDIA’s…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary The Supercomputing SC24 conference is this week in Atlanta, so many quantum computing vendors used the occasion to make announcements. That’s why the Quantum Computing section in this newsletter is longer than usual. The superconducting modality is…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary I’m catching up after attending and speaking at the Inside Quantum Technology Quantum+AI conference in New York City this week. As a result, today’s collection of links is a smorgasbord of recent news and articles from the…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary I tweaked today’s edition’s title to insert the word “useful.” After all, we want our computing systems, classical or quantum, to be useful, don’t we? Most of today’s quantum computers are deployed for research, experimentation, and education….
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today, we look at quantum sensing and communication, material simulation, and continuous-variable approaches for analog quantum computing. Today’s Brief Commentary Here’s a story idea for journalists: Given the gate-and-circuit “digital” model of hashtag#quantumcomputing, ask vendors two things about their eventual…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Regarding “hybrid quantum computing,” please try to use a quantum computer with no classical computer in the process. No laptop, no cloud, no classical control, no classical processes in the workflow, no classical code at all. You…
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Building the Quantum Future, Qubit by Qubit – Berkeley Lab News Center https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/09/30/building-the-quantum-future-qubit-by-qubit/ Author: Aliyah Kovner (Monday, September 30, 2024) “Quantum technologies may still be in development, but these systems are evolving rapidly and existing prototypes are…
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). General News, Articles, and Analyses Post-Quantum Cryptography Coalition Publishes Comparison of International PQC Standards https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/post-quantum-cryptography-comparison-international-pqc-standards Author: MITRE (Thursday, September 5, 2024) “The coalition surveyed international regulatory bodies that are defining the quantum-resistance requirements to be followed by technology vendors used…
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). It’s been a couple of weeks since NIST announced the new post-quantum cryptography standards, so there’s been more news, press releases, and analysis of what this means for organizations and their cybersecurity strategies and implementations. Also see: Special NIST Post-Quantum…
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses IBM’s Quantum-Centric Supercomputing Vision Is Coming – IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-quantum-computer-2668978269 Authors: Ryan Mandelbaum; Antonio D. Corcoles; and Jay Gambetta (Wednesday, August 21, 2024) “For decades, quantum computers have struggled to reach commercial viability. The quantum behaviors that…