TQI QuickBits -- Mastercard On The Charge, Girls in Quantum, Using QCs For Sustainable Energy
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It's been quite an exciting ride in quantum this week with Quantum LinkedIn percolating with news about quantum technologies and promises to turn the emerging industry into business-as-not-so-usual.
The community wants to ensure that its industry is founded on basic principles of inclusion diversity and equity. The City Quantum Summit was formed to lead that charge for quantum. By all accounts, the summit was a huge success with thought leaders in the space offering insights into how we can take steps to create a quantum technology field that can tap the vast array of talent in the broad population.
Shaping the quantum industry today means we need to shape the source of quantum industry of the future -- young people.
One example: Girls in Quantum set up a free online seminar this week. The organization comprises five girl ambassadors from Europe, India, Egypt, the USA, and Latin America. The group creates interactive resources through posts, infographics, blogs, and videos that have already impacted more than 500 girls from around 12 countries.
You can learn more here.
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Quantum Quotes
There's a saying -- anything blessed is equally cursed. In an exclusive piece of TQI, graduate student Anders Liman sums quantum's blessing-curses this way:
"Despite being a relatively young field, QC presents tremendous promise. It is predicted to be useful for applications from accelerated machine learning, to discovery of new materials, to design of fusion energy systems. However, it also poses some potential threats. Many believe QC could exacerbate the digital divide; it is also predicted to break existing encryption, thereby threatening cybersecurity; and it could lead to other potentially harmful applications." -- Anders Liman
Quantum centers are cropping up all over the world. Poland -- blessed with smart, talented and hard-working people -- is nurturing its own quantum ecosystem. Europe has taken notice and will located one of its quantum computer centers there.
“Choosing Poland and our center as one of the six European locations for this breakthrough classical-quantum supercomputer architecture shows that we have met all the entry criteria and have the relevant experience to build such a hybrid." -- Krzysztof Kurowski, PhD Eng. from PSNC
Quantum Company-of-the-Week -- Alibaba
China is a major player in quantum -- and the companies there continue to make significant strides in turning quantum tech into real-world solutions. TQI's Intelligence Platform lets you keep an eye on these firms, too.
Alibaba, for instance, is one to watch.
TQI Quick Looks
The Quantum Insider's Intelligence Platform is more than a list of companies -- it offers actionable information on products, too. For example, the platform lists major Quantum Computer as a Service (QCaaS) providers and companies -- currently 23 firms -- that offer Quantum Processing Units (QPUs).
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QuickBits
The protections and purchasing power of contactless payments took a step forward as Mastercard announced the approval of the first cards for issuers that are compatible with the new EMVCo? contactless specifications designed to protect against attacks from both traditional and quantum computers.
Girls in Quantum is an organization that provides educational resources about Quantum Computing to girls and students internationally. The youth organization has five girl ambassadors from Europe, India, Egypt, the USA, and Latin America.
Interested in defence, space, cyber and quantum technologies? The University of South Australia — Australia’s University of Enterprise — is?offering an exciting opportunity to apply for a project-based Ph.D. in partnership with Arqit.
Researchers from the University of Bristol, quantum start-up, Phasecraft and Google Quantum AI have used a quantum computer to reveal properties of electronic systems that could be used for the development of more efficient batteries and solar cells.
The key to maximizing traditional or quantum computing speeds lies in our ability to understand how electrons behave in solids, and a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Regensburg captured electron movement in attoseconds — the fastest speed yet.
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