A great story about the impact of the National Agenda for Quantum Technology for the Netherlands (in Dutch): https://www.consultancy.nl/nieuws/26117/hoe-blijft-nederland-mondiaal-koploper-in-quantumtechnologie

Onze IT-infrastructuur is alleen maar onveiliger geworden. Sterke encryptie is broodnodig, aldus Ot van Daalen, promovendus aan het Instituut voor Informatierecht aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Ot van Daalen 8 november 2019, 11:03 Minister Grapperhaus vindt dat de overheid toegang moet kunnen krijgen tot versleutelde berichten als dat nodig is. Dat hebben... read more →

Thursday, October 31 2019, Christian Schaffner was interviewed in a BNR podcast, discussing the impact of quantum computers on crytography and in particular on crypto currencies. To listen back the full podcast: https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/cryptocast/10393387/hoe-beschermen-we-bitcoin-tegen-de-quantumcomputeror watch it on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-eFfOjzrCA

Harry Buhrman, group leader with CWI and director of QuSoft joins the jury for the prestigious Airbus Quantum Computing Challenge to help select the winners from the submitted proposals. https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/news/en/2019/10/world-leading-experts-Airbus-Quantum-Computing-Challenge.html

The internet as we know it today has become an integral part of our lives. We use this piece of technology on a daily, hourly, almost continuous basis. We use it at work, to relax, to socialize, to fact check our friends during an argument and even to control the... read more →

Last Saturday, October 19, Arjan Cornelissen, Farrokh Labib and Ruben Brokkelkamp formed a combined QuSoft/CWI team participating in the BAPC 2019 programming contest and earned the 4th place in the company contest, competing against companies such as ASML, Booking.com, Ortec and Sioux. The Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC) is a... read more →