Sydney Quantum Academy gets ready for 2020 launch
The Sydney Quantum Academy (SQA) had a soft launch at the Sydney Startup Hub earlier this month for its inaugural PhD scholarships, postdoctoral fellowships and visiting fellowships.
The Sydney Quantum Academy (SQA) had a soft launch at the Sydney Startup Hub earlier this month for its inaugural PhD scholarships, postdoctoral fellowships and visiting fellowships.
Researchers from Rigetti Computing and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia say they have taken an important step towards the use of quantum computing in the financial services sector.
ASX-listed oil and gas company Woodside has become the first commercial organisation in Australia to join the IBM Q Network, which is focused on the development and use of quantum computing.
When quantum computing moves from the theoretical world into the applied space it threatens to break apart the accepted modus operandi of much of the technology industry, something Hubert Yoshida, the CTO of Hitachi Vantara is keenly aware of.
Quantum computing hardware and cloud company Rigetti has acquired QxBranch, an Adeleide-born quantum software startup.
Sydney start-up Q-CTRL is releasing an open source library of error suppression controls for quantum computers.
The collaborative spirit within the quantum computing research community is bearing fruit with joint research by scientists at UNSW and the University of Sydney which has “overcome a fundamental hurdle” in the field.
The University of Queensland (UQ) is launching a new quantum technology masters program, which it says is the “first of its kind” in Australia.
Ford Motor Company is seeking a quantum algorithms researcher as it ramps up its internal quantum computing research effort.
Amazon Web Services has, for the first time, hinted at its interest in offering quantum computing to customers.
Sydney start-up Q-CTRL has launched its inaugural product – Black Opal – which it describes as “the world’s first commercially available software suite designed to improve the performance of quantum computing hardware”.
“We can now propose a pathway to build robust entangled states for logic gates using protected pairs of photons,” says Dr Andrea Blanco-Redondo from Sydney Nano Institute.
The White House yesterday launched a national strategy for Quantum Information Science (QIS) in a bid to secure global leadership in “the next technological revolution”.
The White House will host a meeting focused on U.S. government efforts to boost quantum information science, with administration officials, leading companies including Alphabet Inc, IBM, JPMorgan Chase and academic experts taking part.
Researchers, scientists, academics, hobbyists, businesses - all of these groups are represented in the community of Qiskit, the open source framework based on IBM's quantum computing programme that's opening up access to real quantum computing in the cloud for everyone.