Quantum – Tuesday, December 31, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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AI Chipsets – Friday, November 1, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI Chipsets. Today’s Brief Commentary It’s been a while since I dedicated an entire newsletter to AI accelerator chips. Announcements from vendors tend to come in bursts around events such as the Hot Chips conference. It’s hard to find any news…

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Quantum – Thursday, October 31, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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Useful Quantum Computing – Wednesday, October 23, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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….

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AI – Tuesday, October 1, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses CIOs turn to NIST to tackle generative AI’s many risks | CIO Dive https://www.ciodive.com/news/cio-generative-ai-risk-mitigation-strategy-NIST-framework/728257/ Author: Lindsey Wilkinson (Monday, September 30, 2024) “Discover’s risk reduction strategy closely follows the guidance laid out by the National Institute of Standards…

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Post-Quantum cryptography protecting a futuristic data center

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) – Thursday, September 19, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) – Thursday, August 29, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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Post-Quantum cryptography protecting a futuristic data center

Special NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) News and Articles Edition for Thursday, August 15, 2024

A selection of the most important recent news and articles about the new NIST standards for post-quantum cryptography. News, Articles, and Analyses NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards | NIST https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/08/nist-releases-first-3-finalized-post-quantum-encryption-standards (Tuesday, August 13, 2024) “NIST is encouraging computer system administrators to begin transitioning to the new standards as soon as possible.” White…

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Quantum – Monday, August 12, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about quantum computing. News, Articles, and Analyses Quantum Machines Announces Inaugural Adaptive Quantum Circuits Conference https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quantum-machines-announces-inaugural-adaptive-quantum-circuits-conference-302217832.html (Thursday, August 08, 2024) “/PRNewswire/ – Quantum Machines, the leading provider of breakthrough quantum control solutions, today announced the inaugural Adaptive Quantum Circuits (AQC)…” Quantum’s big numbers game…

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