This year’s IEEE Quantum Week is planned for October 12-16, 2020, in Denver, Colorado.
IEEE Quantum Week is a multidisciplinary quantum computing venue where attendees will have the unique opportunity to discuss challenges and opportunities with quantum researchers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, developers, students, practitioners, educators, programmers, and newcomers.
The IBM Quantum team is well represented at the conference with a keynote from Jerry Chow. We also have 7 tutorials and 2 workshops.
Our tutorials are on the following topics:
- Quantum programming, an introduction
- Quantum machine learning for data scientists
- Quantum hardware control: a hands-on introduction
- Quantum algorithms for optimization
- Quantum algorithms for chemistry simulation
- Assessing the quality of qubits and quantum computers
- Serious Games for Quantum Computing
Our workshops are:
- Control and design of superconducting qubits
- Software for quantum applications, algorithms, and workflows
Registration is now open.
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Quantum computing article today in USA Today
USA Today published an article today called “Could quantum computing help beat the next coronavirus?” where they interviewed several of us in the IBM Quantum program. While the title is far-reaching, it refers to basic research today in how quantum computing might be used for calculations in the physical sciences and chemistry, in particular. It also mentions nascent financial services work via this quote from me:
For a consumer with a retirement fund, “quantum computers over the next 10 to 15 years … may help you make better personal financial decisions through the calculations that your broker is doing,” says Bob Sutor, an IBM Research vice president tasked with driving the quantum computing ecosystem.
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My #BCTECHSummit 2019 talk
I spoke this morning about quantum computing at #BCTECHSummit in Vancouver, British Columbia. Here are some of the points I emphasized:
- The mainstream efforts including IBM Q are universal quantum computing systems with the eventual goal of full fault tolerance.
- However, we believe “Quantum Advantage,” where we show significant improvement over classical methods and machines, may happen in the next decade, well before fault tolerance.
- Don’t say “quantum computing will.” Say it “might.” Publish your results and your measurements.
- Since May, 2016, IBM has hosted the IBM Q Experience, the most advanced and most widely used quantum cloud service. Over 100,000 users have executed close to 9 million quantum circuits. There is no charge for using the IBM Q Experience.
- Qiskit is the most advanced open source framework for programming a quantum computer. It has components that provide high level user libraries, low level access, APIs for connecting to quantum computers and simulators, and new measurement tools for errors and performance.
- Chemistry, AI, and cross-industry techniques such as Monte Carlo replacements are the areas that show great promise for the earliest Quantum Advantage examples.
- The IBM Q Network is built around a worldwide collection of hubs, direct partnerships, academic memberships, and startups working accelerate educations and to find the earliest use cases that demonstrate Quantum Advantage.
- Last week IBM Q published “Cramming More Power Into a Quantum Device” that discussed the whole-system Quantum Volume measurement, how we have doubled this every year since 2017, and how we believe there is headroom to continue at this pace.
