A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about quantum computing. News, Articles, and Analyses Infleqtion Leads the Way with First Quantum Computer Installation at NQCC — Infleqtion (Tuesday, July 16, 2024) “We’re thrilled to announce the installation of our state-of-the-art neutral atom quantum computer at the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC)….
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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…
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…
The Amazon Kindle version of Dancing with Qubits is now available!
I’m pleased to announce that the Amazon Kindle version of my quantum computing book Dancing with Qubits is now available! This book provides a comfortable and conversational introduction to quantum computing. I take you through the mathematics you need at a pace that allows you to understand not just “what” but also “why.” When we…
Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: What’s in the book
This morning I awoke to a very nice email from Tom Jacob, the Project Editor for my book at Packt Publishing. He said, in part, We were able to successfully ship the book to our printers. … Congratulations on achieving this milestone! As I’ve mentioned before, my book was prepared using LaTeX and not Microsoft…
Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: My five rules for making revisions from editorial comments
Today I finished making revisions to the book based on comments from the proofreader. All told, there have been five people providing feedback and comments for how I should modify, fix, and improve the content: me the technical reviewer the project editor the development editor the proof reader My editing started as soon as I…
Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: Let me preface my remarks with …
Way back in 1992, Springer-Verlag published my first book Axiom: The Scientific Computation System, co-authored with the late Richard D. Jenks. Since then I’ve thought of writing other books, but work and life in general caused enough inertia that I never got around to it. I first got involved with IBM’s quantum computing effort in…
Math and Analytics at IBM Research: 50+ Years
Soon after I arrived back in IBM Research last July after 13 years away in the Software Group and Corporate, I was shown a 2003 edition of the IBM Journal of Research and Development that was dedicated to the Mathematical Sciences group at 40. From that, I and others assumed that this year, 2013, was…
