Quantum – Wednesday, February 19, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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Quantum – Wednesday, January 22, 2025: 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 No commentary today, just an announcement. Together with Lawrence Gasman, I’ll be putting together the program for the next Inside Quantum Technology Q+AI conference in New York City from October 20 to 22. That’s a while from…

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Quantum – Saturday, January 11, 2025: 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 exhausted from hearing about and discussing the drop in stock prices of quantum companies (and even some that only have “quantum” in their names). Here is my net: these quantum computing stocks were driven up to…

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Quantum – Tuesday, December 17, 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 Plastic glass. Jumbo shrimp. Open secret. These are all examples of oxymorons, phrases whose first halves seem to be the opposite of the second. I read another one over the weekend: Quantum computing classical hardware. To be…

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Quantum – Thursday, December 5, 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 round-up of news and articles about quantum technologies before the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in Santa Clara, California, next week, December 10–12. Several companies, including Equal1 and Alice & Bob, squeezed in announcements…

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Quantum – Thursday, November 7, 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 There is so much going on across quantum technologies these days that I’ve had to use new categories for computing, networking, and sensing, both general and technical. This is a good thing, and I hope the sections…

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Quantum – Tuesday, October 8, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Nu Quantum leverages NQCC alliance to launch Oxbridge quantum computing initiative https://www.businessweekly.co.uk/posts/nu-quantum-leverages-nqcc-alliance-to-launch-oxbridge-quantum-computing-initiative Author: Tony Quested (Wednesday, October 2, 2024) “Cambridge’s Nu Quantum and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) in Harwell, today announce Project IDRA – the…

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Quantum – Thursday, September 12, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Kipu Quantum Team Says New Quantum Algorithm Outshines Existing Techniques https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/09/09/kipu-quantum-team-says-new-quantum-algorithm-outshines-existing-techniques/ Author: Matt Swayne (Monday, September 9, 2024) “Kipu Quantum-led team of researchers announced the successful testing of what they’re labeling the largest quantum optimization problem…

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AI Chipsets – Wednesday, August 28, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI Chipsets. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. AI Reinvents Chip Design – Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/news/ai-reinvents-chip-design/ Author: Samuel Greengard (Thursday, August 22, 2024) “Chipmakers are turning to artificial intelligence to improve conceptional design, transistor models, simulations and analysis, verification and testing,…

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Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing – Sunday, August 25, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing. General News, Articles, and Analyses The Walrus Operator: Python’s Assignment Expressions – Real Python https://realpython.com/python-walrus-operator/ Author: Geir Arne Hjelle (Wednesday, August 14, 2024) “In this tutorial, you’ll learn about assignment expressions and the walrus operator….

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AI – Tuesday, August 20, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses AI and Games Conference https://www.aiandgamesconference.com/ (Sunday, July 28, 2024) “Bringing together the leading experts in AI for the video games industry.” GenAI Can’t Scale Without Responsible AI https://www.bcg.com/ja-jp/publications/2024/genai-cant-scale-without-responsible-ai Authors: Eric Jesse; Vanessa Lyon; Maria Gomez; and Krupa Narayana…

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Quantum – Monday, August 05, 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 Testing spooky action at a distance | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://news.mit.edu/2024/testing-spooky-action-distance-0731 Author: School of Engineering | Department of Mathematics | Department of Physics | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Wednesday, July…

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Quantum – Saturday, July 27, 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 Meet Majorana | WIRED https://www.wired.com/sponsored/story/meet-majorana/ (Monday, June 03, 2024) “WIRED Brand Lab | For decades, we’ve heard that quantum computing will be the future. Well, if this little particle has anything to do with it, the future…

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