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Reflecting on National Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
As a first-to-market nanophotonic-based quantum technology company, Quantum Computing Inc. publishes a monthly newsletter to share the latest announcements and news involving quantum technologies. looks back on National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and...
September’s Cyber Defense: Introducing QCi’s Cyber Solutions
As a first-to-market nanophotonic-based quantum technology company, Quantum Computing Inc. publishes a monthly newsletter to share the latest announcements and news involving quantum technologies. This month’s issue focuses on QCi’s cybersecurity soluti...
Quantum Leaps Ahead – QCi’s R&D Surge!
As a first-to-market nanophotonic-based quantum technology company, Quantum Computing Inc. publishes a monthly newsletter to share the latest announcements and news involving quantum technologies. This month’s issue highlights QCi’s research and develop...
Flying Cars Meet Quantum Computing
Experience the not-so-distant future at the crossroads of flying cars and quantum computing. Aerial vehicles are poised to take to the sky and Quantum Computing Inc.’s technology is paving the way. Read our CTO’s insights on the trajectory of quantum te...
Navigating the Landscape of Licenses for Cybersecurity and US Patents
n today’s fast-changing digital era, where cyber threats are an increasing concern, defending new cybersecurity solutions has become necessary. As technology continues to influence our society, cybersecurity licenses and US patents have grown in relevance.
QCi & Quantum in the News
As a first-to-market nanophotonic-based quantum technology company, Quantum Computing Inc. publishes a monthly newsletter to share the latest announcements and news involving quantum technologies. This month features QCi’s new products and subcontract a...
Intro to Quantum Random Number Generators
This is part three of a three-part series on quantum security – how it works, the implications for society and business, and what it will mean for leaders of organizations that process sensitive data and rely on keeping that data secure.
Why QCi uniform Quantum Random Number Generator?
From the dawn of time, humans have survived because of their ability to find and identify patterns. For example, patterns helped us distinguish edible berries from poisonous ones, related agricultural activities to seasons, and navigate...
What does “steal now decrypt later” mean for cybersecurity?
This is part two of a three-part series on quantum security – how it works, the implications for society and business, and what it will mean for leaders of organizations that process sensitive data and...
Introduction to Quantum Security – quantum computers and post quantum cryptography
This is part one of a three-part series on quantum security – how it works, the implications for society and business, and what it will mean for leaders of organizations that process sensitive data and...
Secretary of Commerce Raimondo Speaks on the CHIPS Act
“We have always been a nation of investment, entrepreneurship, and innovation. That is our edge. We have to keep our edge,” said Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo during her speech today at Georgetown University on...
Entropy Quantum Computing Offers an Innovative Path Toward Scalable Quantum Computing
For most scientists – and especially those physicists exploring quantum information science – the mere mention of words like “entropy” and “decoherence” are enough to keep them up at night. The research team at Quantum Computing...
The Current State and Promise of Quantum Computing
Brian Walker, the host of the IEEE Quantum Podcast series, asked Robert Liscouski, president and CEO, and William McGann, CTO, and COO for Quantum Computing, Inc. share insights on the current state of the quantum...
NISQ Computers – Can We Escape the Noise?
We all hear the term NISQ computer a lot in the quantum computing space these days. NISQ stands for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum. The term was coined by John Preskill in 2018 and is generally used...
Entropy Quantum Computing, Delivering Quantum Value, Today
As you all know, this week, we announced results from our Entropy Quantum Computer (EQC). Landmark results for a quantum computer in today’s world. We had so many people reach out with questions, we wanted...
Seize Quantum Computing Power With Early Adoption
My TechDecisions asked Robert Liscouski, president and CEO of Quantum Computing, Inc., all about quantum computing and how organizations can harness its advanced computing power before it reaches full maturity. Here’s what Liscouski had to...
Quantum Computing Optimization for Transportation
via Transport Topics Fleets must make decisions to optimize their operations every day. Consider a company with 500 trucks that need to be loaded with 500 diverse orders, all within three hours each morning. Optimizing...
Optimizing Oil and Gas with Quantum Computing
Quantum computing in the oil and gas industry can offer critical solutions to the complex computations demanded as part of the supply chain of the future. As evidence, at the recent KPMG Global Energy Conference...
What’s Up With QCi and QPhoton?
by Matt Swayne, Quantum Insider It’s usually pure business concerns that drive acquisitions. According to Robert Liscouski, president, CEO and chairman of QCi, the acquisition of QPhoton was driven by more than just the bottom line of...
Optimization is Key for Seamless, Efficient Oil & Gas Supply Chains
We see it all around us today. As supply chain crises have increased, it’s become apparent that the planning and rapid replanning of sourcing, production, and logistics are integral to the stability of our energy...
Dr. William McGann on the Value of QCi and QPhoton
QCi and QPhoton on CEORoadshow Hi, I’m Mike Elliot and you’re watching CEO roadshow today as we chat about the pending QPhoton acquisition. We’re gonna be speaking to, uh, Dr. Bill McGann. He’s the COO...
Why QCi and QPhoton?
Mike Elliott at CEO Roadshow talks with our CEO, Robert Liscouski, about why QCi acquired QPhoton and the value we expect to bring to market, applications of QPhoton that benefit quantum possible use cases...
Quantum Computing and Your Beginner’s Mind
The first thing to understand about quantum is… it’s real, it’s proven and it works. We see it all around us because quantum is the language of nature. Everything around us is running under the...
How Quantum Computing Will Transform Government IT
The U.S. government is making major investments in quantum technology. In 2020, the Department of Energy invested $625 million into multidisciplinary Quantum Information Science Research Centers in support of the National Quantum Initiative...
Why Optimization Demands Mega Processing Scale
Optimization enables businesses to be more efficient when it comes to complex, interrelated processes – like delivering products to the market, matching orders with production capabilities, scheduling large work forces, and more. We all are...
Quantum Computing’s Role in Future-Proofing Distribution Systems
The past few years reinforce the notion that we are dependent on our logistics and distribution channels and we need to reinforce and expand our abilities to optimize them dynamically when massive and unexpected shifts...
QCi in the Quantum Marketplace
We had the opportunity to share a bit about QCi and our approach to quantum computing as part of the Quantum Economic Development Commission – QEDC, and their Quantum Marketplace. You’ll also find insights our...
Quantum Computing: Fueling Oil and Gas Supply Chains
Quantum computing is a critical technology for oil and gas companies. With steadily increasing global demand, it’s optimization becomes more critical and more complicated. As disruption becomes more prevalent...
The Many Faces of Quantum Optimization
Quantum computers use alien properties of the quantum mechanical world to run computational tasks like optimization; faster, better and more efficiently than classical computers. The two flagship examples of this computational supremacy are...
Why All Quantum Computers Are Hybrids
When you say hybrid quantum computers, most of us in the business have a pretty specific definition of what that means. It’s a consistent theme for a relatively straightforward concept; using a classical computer and...
FutureThink: Hybrid Quantum Computing
When we speak of hybrid quantum computing today, we assume we’re discussing the blending of a classical and a quantum computer. These two systems can be configured, thanks to orchestration, to work together to solve...
Hybrid Architectures in Quantum Computing
We all know that quantum computing hybrids will be the dominant configuration for extracting quantum value in many applications and use cases. As we have noted before, it’s not a question of classical vs quantum...
Oil and Gas: A Quantum Future
Oil and gas companies lose millions of dollars every day, and obviously not because of the commodity price. It’s due in some cases to the inability of these companies to effectively process the massive amounts...
5 Questions to Decide Which Quantum Computer
The race to define the potential value of quantum computers is heating up. More and more organizations are creating quantum innovation groups to explore exciting opportunities for quantum systems. The competitive advantage quantum computing offers...
4 Questions About Your Applications of Quantum Computing
“What are my best applications of quantum computing?” That’s a question that’s top of mind for any organization exploring quantum computing and it’s value. Chances are, right after you ask that question, you’ll get a...
The Case for Quantum Exploration
Quantum exploration is shifting from laboratories to commercial applications. Since many use cases won’t require pure-quantum, now is the time to begin to explore classical and quantum hybrids, as well as other options, for early...
The Future of Logistics With Quantum Computing
COVID-19 taught us the importance of supply chains when everything from raw materials to finished goods became delayed or simply unavailable to manufacturers and retailers. It also accelerated a dramatic shift in the logistics and...
The Many Faces of a Qubit
There are a variety of qubit types coming into the market, as quantum computing vendors explore various technologies to exploit the full force of quantum mechanics for our complex computations and simulations. Is There A...
Qubit: The Heart of Quantum Computing
Quantum computing has so many different terms, ranging from qubit, QPU, superposition, entanglement, to trapped ions, photons and perhaps lions and tigers and bears, oh my. It’s hard enough to get a grasp on all...
Quantum Use Cases Are Here
We previously shared initial findings from a study conducted by Hyperion Research. Their final research this week expanded insight to the quantum use cases identified by commercial organizations, along with the potential roadblocks end users...
Quantum Software is the Linchpin for Quantum Adoption
There’s so much focus on quantum computers in the market today. Specifically, on the hardware itself, from scaling qubits to error correction and noise reduction, from ions, to photons to substrates. Hardware vendors are running...
How to Prepare for Your Company’s Path to Quantum
Analyst firms are promoting the need for companies to start exploring a path to quantum now—or fear being left behind. But for many CIOs, investing time and resources into a technology that they believe may...
New Study Gains Business Perspective on Quantum Computing
In its research to understand end user insights on quantum computing from a business perspective, Hyperion Research asked 415 decision makers (including CIOs 36% and CTOs 20%), influencers and stakeholders about their: Awareness of quantum...
The Potential for Quantum Computing in Transportation Optimization
The trucking industry is facing a myriad of challenges that quantum computing can solve. These challenges include compressed delivery times, increased regulations, more trucks on the road and rising costs. Optimizing the complexity of effective...
Quantum Computing: A New Solution for Supply Chain and Logistics Optimization
Constrained optimization can help supply chain planners stay ahead. World events ranging from the Suez Canal blockage to the global COVID-19 pandemic have shown how susceptible our supply chain management and logistics systems are to...
Our Shifting Quantum Reality Mindset
Embracing quantum reality requires us to reset our expectations, since quantum computing is vastly different than classical. A quantum computer doesn’t process as a classical system. We need to adjust our expectations to embrace the...
Domain-wall encoding: how physics can help us compute better
QCi recently showed how domain-wall encoding can get better performance out of quantum hardware for practical optimization, as well as investigating opportunities to even do more. We’re summarizing our work for physics and computing non-experts...
Quantum Technology: Current and Future Applications
While quantum technology has been in academia for more than three decades, it’s recently gained the attention of business for commercial applications. In the past 12 months, offering access to quantum computers via the cloud...
What Will Drive Quantum Computing?
An article this week, Technology or Use Case:What Will Drive Quantum Computing? , included some baseline realities regarding the state of quantum today, the challenges to its production use in the near term, and itsAn article this week...
6 Reasons You Need Quantum Computing Experience Now
Quantum computing is one of the top topics of innovation conversations around the information technology world. Why wouldn’t it be? The promise it holds is, well, mind boggling. Partially because it’ a whole new paradigm...
The Critical Role of Government in Quantum Computing
Why is government in quantum computing important? Quantum computing has enormous potential to facilitate sweeping systems change. Some think the leap from classical to quantum could be more significant than the leap from the abacus...
Top 3 Questions for Quantum Computing
There’s a lot of hype and investment being made in quantum computing. Not to mention the future projections for the problems that quantum can help to solve more efficiently and by providing a range of...
Top Quantum Techniques to Optimize that Complex Last Mile
Agility and speed to optimization are critical to meet customers’ growing expectations for instant availability and near-immediate delivery. Yet, the last mile has always been the most expensive, long-bemoaned challenge of logistics. With the “new...
Stop Settling for Just One Answer with Quantum
We are often asked why is getting multiple answers with quantum a good thing? Here’s the scoop about how quantum helps you improve decisions. Would one answer be enough if you had to decide how...
3 Powerful Examples of Hybrid Quantum Systems
Everybody is talking about hybrid quantum systems. Yet there aren’t a lot of well defined definitions of what a hybrid system actually is, what it does, and the value it brings. That’s probably because different...
Quantum: It’s Not Just About Speed
We all hear the constant hype about how fast quantum computers will be. So we all come to expect supersonic speeds for every need, whether it’s a mathematical computation, an artificial intelligence learning new things...
Quantum Annealing Innovation: Domain-Wall Encoding
We all know that quantum computers, both quantum annealing and gate model, are extremely limited in the problems they can solve today. That’s because they can’t hold the number of variables that complex problems require...
The Path To Quantum Optimization
First – let’s all recognize that quantum optimization is not just around the corner. Yes, you can run some problems today. But quantum computers aren’t yet ready to process real-world business problems, such as logistics...
The QUBO Primer You Need: Part 2
As we learned in Part 1, QUBO (Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization) problems are mathematical problems expressed in terms of binary variables, which may include constraints. They’re important to businesses who...
Will Quantum Computers Replace Classical Computers?
How soon will quantum computers replace classical computers? That seems to be a popular question in some arenas. The problem is, it’s not really a feasible scenario, so the true answer is never. Not that...