Institutions include the University of
Notre Dame, Virginia Tech,
Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Waterloo, among others
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, New York,
April 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
(NYSE: IBM) today announced the expansion of the IBM Q Network
to include a number of global universities with the intent to
partner with IBM to accelerate joint research in quantum computing,
and develop curricula to help prepare students for careers that
will be influenced by this next era of computing, across science
and business.
The IBM Q Network™ is the world's first community of
Fortune 500 companies, startups, academic institutions and research
labs working to advance quantum computing and explore practical
applications.
Today, IBM is announcing Florida State
University, the University of Notre
Dame, Virginia Tech,
Stony Brook University, and the
University of Tokyo will have direct
access to IBM QTM's most-advanced commercially available
quantum computing systems for teaching, and faculty and student
research projects that advance quantum information science and
explore early applications, as academic partners.
Examples of future quantum computing application research and
exploration include:
The University of Notre
Dame: As part of the IBM Q Network, the university
will grow an interdisciplinary quantum-programming community, and
prepare a workforce at the undergraduate and graduate levels for
the development of novel quantum computing applications in
chemistry, physics and engineering and the creation of tools for
increasing the efficiency of quantum computers.
Virginia Tech: As a member of
the IBM Q Hub at Oak Ridge National Lab, Virginia Tech will work in conjunction with the
Department of Energy, and chemistry experts at the IBM Almaden
Research Center on the development of new quantum algorithms
specifically in the field of quantum chemistry.
Stony Brook University:
As a member of the IBM Q Hub at Oak Ridge National Lab,
Stony Brook will use its access
for joint research and to prepare a new workforce skilled in
quantum technologies, including a focus on basic and applied
research in science and engineering, and in the development of
fundamental advances in quantum computation and associated
algorithms.
Additionally, a number of institutions will collaborate with the
IBM Q Network on focused research projects with students and
faculty to advance the foundational science, technology, and
software required to enable more capable quantum systems. These
university research collaborators include Duke
University, Harvard University,
the University of Colorado Boulder, the
University of Waterloo, as well as the
University of Chicago, Argonne National
Laboratory, Fermilab, the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Northwestern University through the Chicago Quantum
Exchange.
Examples of future joint-research collaborations include:
Duke University: The Brown
Lab, led by Dr. Kenneth Brown, which
focuses on "quantum systems to build quantum information devices
and sensors" will work with IBM in the area of quantum error
correction, an algorithmic method for removing errors in quantum
computers, which is expected to be important for future quantum
computers regardless of the hardware platform.
Harvard
University: Through its recent investment in
a Harvard Quantum Initiative, Harvard has committed to developing a broad
community of researchers and educators in quantum science and
engineering, including this collaboration with IBM's Q Network.
Harvard students and researchers aim to
transform sensing, communications, and computation — while
developing the educational platform for quantum engineering and
science for the long term.
The University of Colorado
Boulder: As part of the IBM Q Network, CU Boulder will
seek collaborations with IBM Q scientists and engineers through its
CUbit Quantum Initiative, where university, industry and government
scientists conduct joint R&D, train students to contribute to
the expanding quantum workforce, and engage with a range of
industry partners.
The University of Waterloo:
Working with IBM, the University of
Waterloo will focus on accelerating collaborative research
in quantum algorithms and quantum complexity theory.
The University of Chicago,
Argonne National Laboratory, Fermilab, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and
Northwestern
University: Researchers from these
universities and labs, as part of the Chicago Quantum Exchange, a
multi-institution research and development hub for quantum
technology anchored at the University of
Chicago, will work with IBM Q scientists on software, in
particular compilers for distributed quantum systems, as well as
quantum transduction for coupling and communicating with quantum
computers.
"Developing practical quantum applications that drive business
and scientific breakthroughs requires a diverse ecosystem," said
Dr. Anthony Annunziata, IBM Q
Network Global Lead, IBM Research. "Partnering with these
world-leading academic and research institutions is key as we work
to educate, empower, and get the next generation of students
'quantum ready' to advance the field."
Beginning this summer, IBM will host developer boot camps and
hackathons for hands-on training of the open source IBM Q
Experience cloud services platform, and the full-stack open source
QiskitTM quantum software platform on campus at
participating universities.
The IBM Q Network provides its organizations with quantum
expertise and resources, quantum software and developer tools, as
well as cloud-based access to quantum software and developer tools,
as well as cloud-based access to IBM's most advanced, commercially
available and scalable universal quantum computing systems. In
addition, the no-cost and publicly available IBM Q
Experience now supports more than 100,000 users, who have run
more than 10 million experiments and published more than 180
third-party research papers. Developers have also
downloaded Qiskit more than 160,000 times to create and
run quantum computing programs.
For more information about the IBM Q Network, as well as a full
list of all partners, members, and hubs,
visit https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/network/
About IBM Q
IBM Q is an industry-first initiative to
build commercial universal quantum systems for business and science
applications. For more information about IBM's quantum computing
efforts, please visit www.ibm.com/ibmq.
IBM Q Network™, QiskitTM, and IBM Q™ are trademarks
of International Business Machines Corporation.
Media Contact:
Chris
Nay
IBM Research Communications
cnay@us.ibm.com
1-720-349-2032
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