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May 18, 2016

A&S Physicist Awarded IBM Grant to Develop Quantum Computing

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So, IBM is giving grant money to A&S to build a Quantum Computer. Hmmm; so IBM announced they had a Quantum Computer and computing services via cloud. Guessing IBM has a pseudo version of QC given this move.


A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a major grant to help develop quantum computing technology.

Britton Plourde, associate professor of physics, is using a three-year, $900,000 grant from IBM to conduct research for the LogiQ Program. LogiQ is part of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), based in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Short for “Logical Qubits,” LogiQ studies advanced and alternative computing platforms, quantum information science and qubit systems. LogiQ seeks to build the world’s first logical qubit, capable of storing quantum information immune to environmental influence or error.

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