A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses IBM text-to-SQL generator tops leaderboard – IBM Research (Tuesday, July 02, 2024) “IBM’s generative AI solution takes a top spot on the BIRD benchmark for handling complex database queries” Reaffirming IBM’s commitment to the Rome Call for AI…
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Notable and Interesting Recent AI News, Articles, and Papers for Monday, July 15, 2024
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses Developers get by with a little help from AI: Stack Overflow Knows code assistant pulse survey results – Stack Overflow Gen AI and beyond: Where else to focus now | McKinsey (Friday, July 12, 2024) “Yes, gen AI…
Notable Recent Quantum News, Articles, and Papers for Thursday, July 11, 2024
A selection of the most important recent news and articles about #quantumcomputing. Fourier Quantum Process Tomography | npj Quantum Information (Thursday, May 09, 2024) “The characterization of a quantum device is a crucial step in the development of quantum experiments. This is accomplished via Quantum Process Tomography, which combines the outcomes of different projective measurements…
Notable and Interesting Recent AI News, Articles, and Papers for Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Unleash developer productivity with generative AI | McKinsey (Tuesday, June 27, 2023) “A new McKinsey study shows that software developers can complete tasks up to twice as fast with generative AI. Four actions can help maximize productivity.” IBM Makes Generative AI Platform for DevOps Available – DevOps.com (Tuesday, July 02, 2024) “IBM has made available…
Quick update
Since I last posted, I left IBM after 39 years and joined ColdQuanta, a quantum sensing, computing, and manufacturing company based in Boulder, CO USA. My initial role was Vice President of Corporate Development, but with the influx of extraordinary leaders on the business side, I shifted to Vice President and Chief Quantum Advocate in…
I leave IBM after 39 years
Because one is allowed to …
From classical FLOPS to quantum CLOPS
This week IBM Quantum introduced a new quantum computing architecture-neutral performance speed metric called CLOPS. CLOPS is short for “Circuit Layer Operations per Second.” For those of you familiar with measuring the speed of high performance classical computers, the acronym is a nod to the metric FLOPS, or “Floating point Operations per Second.” CLOPS joins…
Quantum computing in my book Dancing with Python
My new book, Dancing with Python: Learn Python software development from scratch and get started with quantum computing, is now available from Amazon and other sources, and I recently posted the full table of contents. Though it is an introduction to Python, albeit with discussions of several advanced modules, it provides a unified approach with…
Availability of my book Dancing with Python and its table of contents
My new book Dancing with Python: Learn Python software development from scratch and get started with quantum computing is now available for purchase from Amazon and Packt Publishing. Develop skills in Python by implementing exciting algorithms, including mathematical functions, classical searching, data analysis, plotting data, machine learning techniques, and quantum circuits. Key Features Learn Python…
A #QuantumComputing mini-quiz for 2021-04-11
What Quantum Computing circuit is this in the IBM Quantum Composer? What is it doing? Name the parts. I think the Composer is extraordinarily elegant.
Photo: Close-up of an IBM Quantum cryostat
IBM Quantum Composer and Lab – New tools to use now
The IBM Quantum Experience is now two tools: the IBM Quantum Composer and the IBM Quantum Lab. In the first, you can create circuits by drag and drop, run them on a range of hardware and simulators backends, and visualize the results in several ways. The IBM Quantum Lab is Jupyter-based and gives you the…
Video of my Q-munity Tech Workshop talk: Quantum Computing – The Next Five Years
My Q-munity Tech Workshop talk from February 25th is now on YouTube. The abstract for the talk was: There’s a lot of work to be done before quantum computing can reach the scale and performance it must reach to be part of production workloads. In this talk, I’ll describe the IBM Quantum roadmap for the…
Call for papers: Education, Research, and Application of Quantum Computing – HICSS 2022
My IBM Quantum colleague Dr. Andrew Wack and I are hosting a minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2022. The description of the minitrack is: There is no question that quantum computing will be a technology that will spur breakthroughs in natural science, AI, and computational algorithms such as those used…
“How to use interference to your advantage – a quantum computing catch up”
My IBM Quantum colleague Blake Johnson and I had a great conversation with Ben Popper of StackOverflow about software and quantum computing.
Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Hardware
This online course is a great way to go deeply into what makes quantum computing work. Join thousands of your global colleagues and get hands-on knowledge about IBM Quantum and Qiskit. Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Hardware
Dancing with Qubits: Quantum Computing and Finance update
In section 1.5 of my quantum computing book Dancing with Qubits, I discuss potential applications of the technology to financial services. An excellent survey article by my IBM Quantum colleagues is now on arXiv that updates and goes into much greater detail than what I covered. “Quantum computing for Finance: state of the art and…
IEEE Quantum Week and IBM Quantum
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…
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…
Some practical things you can do to learn about quantum computing
People often ask me “Where should I get started in order to learn about quantum computing?”. Here are several steps you can take. I work for IBM, so things I link to will often be to the IBM Quantum program. Also, I acknowledge that several of the links and videos toward the beginning involve me,…
