Quantum Computing

NASA's has awarded the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QuAIL) team the group Honor Award for 2020, for advancing the frontiers of quantum computing through foundational research in algorithms and software that influences the development of commercial quantum computers. Current Team members, consultants and fellowship students include: Rupak Biswas, Kyle E. Booth, Stephen J. Cotton, Shon R. Grabbe, Stuart A. Hadfield, Tad Hogg, Ryan LaRose, Salvatore Mandra, Jeffrey S. Marshall, Gianni Mossi, Bryan A. O’Gorman, Eleanor G. Rieffel, Samuel H. Stromswold, Norman M. Tubman, Davide Venturelli, Walter Vinci, Zhihui Wang, Adam M. Wilson, Filip A. Wudarski.

Results of the first Applied NISQ Computing Award are out: the winner is Prof. Aram Harrow from MIT with the paper Small Quantum Computers and Large Classical Data Set. Honorable mention goes to Balint Koczor and Simon C. Benjamin with Quantum Analytic Descent.

Submissions are open for the first USRA Q2B Applied NISQ Computing Paper Award. Every paper appeared as a preprint in 2020 is eligible for nomination. An additional cover letter/synopsis is required. Prize includes a featured invited presentation at Q2B conference and free compute time on a variety of quantum computing platforms. All info here.

This internship supports community engagement and training in the Quantum Information Sciences. Tasks include editing seminar and training videos for online streaming for materials in Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence. Audio and video editing, power point and pdf presentations, creation of custom drawings, animations and graphics.

For more information, please see the LinkedIn post for our latest Handshake internship opportunity.

Today, USRA, Standard Charted Bank and D-Wave announced that U.S Universities and Non-profit institutions can submit propoals for use of the D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer hosted at NASA Ames. Proposals are sought effective immediately and can gain free compute time to be used until December 2020. See the request for proposals for more details.