How a 1981 conference kickstarted today’s quantum computing eraQuantum computing is also a major area of research focus at other tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Intel, and Honeywell, as well as a bevy of startups. “What we’ve seen since then is this dramatic progress over the last decade, in…
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It’s a Kind of Magic! Researchers Make Versatile Quantum Devices Out of GrapheneThis “magic” material, as Jarillo-Herrero said, is made of graphene, which is composed of a single layer of carbon atoms that are arranged in hexagons. The structure, as a result, allowed the material to either be a superconductor…
Radar trends to watch: May 2021RIP Dan Kaminski, master hacker, teacher, FOO, and a great showman who could make some of the more arcane corners of security fun. The Signal app, probably the most widely used app for truly private communication, has wrapped itself in controversy by incorporating a peer-to-peer…
What is a quantum computer? A paradigm shift is coming – Explica .coHe adds that, as with traditional computers in the beginning, quantum computers fail, have errors, work for a few microseconds, and then die. We found that, indeed, in certain cases, this noise that appears in quantum computers can…
Tomorrow’s computer, yesterdayCuriously, Ed Fredkin, the MIT professor who cosponsored the Endicott Conference with Landauer, had arrived at this same conclusion independently, despite never having earned even an undergraduate degree. Physics of Computation Conference, Endicott House, MIT, May 6–8, 1981. Modern computers, after all, are deterministic: give them the same…
7 Companies Using AI for Drug DiscoveryInstead, the AI platform learns the limited possible approaches used in traditional drug discovery from human chemists, such as retrosynthetic analysis, and improves with each sequential iteration. The company has recently announced its first AI-designed molecule for treating cancer using the body’s own immune…
Leading by listeningTime, perhaps, for some “KISS” style explanation. Dave does relax, though, playing golf when he can and keenly following his very own Detroit Tigers while trying to share his enthusiasm with his kids. In my spare time I am typically reading on those topics; for example, there’s a…
Scientists are working on a switch to help lower the cost of using quantum computers“In 1956, MIT electrical engineer Dudley Buck published a description of a superconducting computer switch called the cryotron,” writes MIT News. These new devices, which Berggren has dubbed nano-cryotrons in tribute to Buck, can serve as…
Lena Funcke receives Leona Woods Lectureship AwardA seminar for the physics-savvy, titled “Measurement Error Mitigation in Quantum Computers Through Classical Bit-flip Correction” via videoconference on Friday, March 26, 2021 at 9 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time. “Lena Funcke is an outstanding early career theoretical physicist,” said Raju Venugopalan, leader of Brookhaven’s…
Quantum Computing and Reinforcement Learning Are Joining Forces to Make Faster AIIn this way, a hybrid reinforcement learning agent alternates between quantum and classical computing, trying out ideas in wibbly-wobbly “multiverse” land while obtaining feedback in grounded, classic physics “normality.” Although only challenged with a “toy problem” in the study,…
