Quantum News Briefs April 14: QURECA Launches the Qureka! Box on World Quantum Day to celebrate quantum technology education and outreach; Yudong Cao, CTO and co-founder of Zapata Computing issues statement on World Quantum Day; EPB Future Ready Institute of Technology to host hands-on quantum science demonstration via YouTube; + MORE

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By Sandra Helsel posted 14 Apr 2023

Quantum News Briefs April 14 features a lineup today devoted to World Quantum Day announcements and news: QURECA Launches the Qureka! Box on World Quantum Day to celebrate quantum technology education and outreach; Yudong Cao, CTO and co-founder of Zapata Computing issues statement on World Quantum Day; EPB Future Ready Institute of Technology to host hands-on quantum science demonstration via YouTube; + MORE

World Quantum Day 2023: join the global celebration!

Yudong Cao, CTO and co-founder of Zapata Computing, issued this formal statement: World Quantum Day is a great reminder to appreciate the progress that has been made in quantum computing and look ahead towards what we can expect. Today, we can see value from quantum AI to solve complex problems, from warehouse processes to novel drug development. We are able to go beyond the existing paradigms of quantum computing and leverage quantum-inspired techniques, such as tensor networks, on classical hardware. Over the next few years, we expect benefits of quantum computing to continue to be driven by quantum-inspired software – and those who start building quantum applications with tensor networks today will be the first to reap the benefits once fault-tolerant quantum computing is available.

World Quantum Day a chance to look in on 5 National Quantum Information Sciences (NQIS) Centers

The U.S. National Quantum Initiative Act (NQIA) is now four years old and the second World Quantum Day – 4.14.23 – is today, Friday.  Yes, it was chosen because the date 4.14 is a rounding of Planck’s constant which is so foundational in quantum mechanics. While WQD activities are only loosely coordinated and lean heavily towards educational outreach, there are a few reports being issued to commemorate the day and demonstrate value.
WQD describes itself as, “an initiative from quantum scientists from 65+ countries. It is a decentralized and bottom-up initiative, inviting all scientists, engineers, educators, communicators, entrepreneurs, technologists, historians, philosophers, artists, museologists, producers, etc., and their organisations, to develop their own activities, such as outreach talks, exhibitions, lab tours, panel discussions, interviews, artistic creations, etc., to celebrate the World Quantum Day around the World.” Click here to read HPCWire’s Senior Editor  John Russell’s reporting on today’s NQIS  events.

Sandra K. Helsel, Ph.D. has been researching and reporting on frontier technologies since 1990.  She has her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.

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