ColdQuanta, Inc., the quantum atomics company, today announced it has been awarded $1M from NASA’s Civilian Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program (CCRPP). The program will enable ColdQuanta to develop significantly smaller cold atom systems with a high level of ruggedness. This award expands on the success of ColdQuanta’s Quantum Core technology which was developed with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and is currently operating aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The company...  

Release DEWA signs MoU with Alibaba Cloud to support innovation through Tianchi platform. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. This is part of DEWA’s ongoing efforts to enhance its digital services. According to the MoU, the two sides will cooperate in presenting the challenges related to algorithms, Quantum Computing, Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud...  

CWI Researchers Stacey Jeffery (Algorithms and Complexity group/QuSoft) and Marie Colette van Lieshout (Stochastics group) have been awarded a grant from the NWO KLEIN programme. KLEIN (or ‘small scale’) grants are intended for innovative, high-quality, fundamental research and/or studies involving matters of scientific urgency. Stacey Jeffery will use the grant for a project titled "Quantum time-space tradeoff lower bounds" In this project she will investigate ways to optimize algorithms that...  

Cambridge Quantum Computing (“CQC”) today announced that Robert Youngjohns has been appointed to its Board as a Non-Executive Director. Based in Silicon Valley, Robert was previously the Executive Vice President and General Manager of HP Software at Hewlett Packard Enterprises (“HPE”). Whilst there, he was instrumental in the $9 billion merger of HPE’s Software Business Segment with Micro Focus resulting in the creation of one of the world’s largest software companies. During his tenure at...