COLLEGE PARK, MD – Sept. 11, 2024 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) and the University of Maryland today announced an agreement to expand their partnership to provide quantum computing access at the National Quantum Lab at Maryland (QLab), which provides UMD-affiliated students, faculty, researchers, staff and partners with an unprecedented opportunity to work […]
Ke Fan and Daniel Nichols Win ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships
New York, August 14, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the IEEE Computer Society announced today that Ke Fan of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Daniel Nichols of the University of Maryland are the recipients of the 2024 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships. The fellowship honors exceptional PhD […]
Quantum: Harvard, QuEra, MIT and NIST/University of Maryland Announce Error-Corrected Algorithms on 48 Qubits
BOSTON, December 6, 2023 – Neutral-atom quantum company QuEra Computing today announced what the company said is a quantum computing breakthrough, published in the scientific journal Nature. In experiments led by Harvard University in collaboration with QuEra Computing, MIT, and NIST/UMD, researchers executed large-scale algorithms on an error-corrected quantum computer with 48 logical qubits and […]
Intel Quantum: ‘Tunnel Falls’ Silicon Spin Chip Available to Researchers
Intel has announced the release of its “Tunnel Falls” quantum research chip, a 12-qubit silicon chip that the company is making available to the quantum research community. Intel also said it is collaborating with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) at the University of Maryland, College Park’s Qubit Collaboratory (LQC), a national-level Quantum Information Sciences […]
Woman-led Team to Research Human-AI Collaboration in Army Intelligence
The Army Research Office is funding a $617,000 grant for a multi-institutional, majority-female research team for technology-enhanced intelligence analysis led by Dr. Susannah B.F. Paletz, research professor at the University of Maryland (UMD) College of Information Studies. The ARO said the team will soon recruit additional project support from undergraduate students. The research team also includes […]