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 →
Oct
23
Oct
21
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 →
Oct
04
Stacey Jeffery, QuSoft-researcher at CWI, received funding from the Dutch Research Council for a project titled Quantum time-space tradeoff lower bounds. In this project she will investigate ways to optimize algorithms that can be used on Quantum Computers. There are many known algorithms that allow quantum computers to solve specific... read more →
Sep
26
Yesterday, Christian Schaffner gave a short interview on BNR Radio about the recent news (yet to be verified) of a computation showing quantum supremacy performed on the 53-qubit platform developed by Google. The interview can be listened to following the link below. https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/digitaal/10390653/ad-blockers-en-quantum-supremacy
Sep
16
KEY TECHNOLOGIES AS A SOLUTION TO SOCIETAL CHALLENGES State Secretary Mona Keijzer received the National Agenda on Quantum Technology directly from Robbert Dijkgraaf this afternoon. The Netherlands is now one of the leading players in quantum technology, which is developing rapidly worldwide. With quantum computers and networks, applications that are... read more →
Sep
16
Qusoft/CWI PhD student András Gilyén, who was promoted in May, wins (together with someone else) the Cor Baayen Award! The Award will be given during the Informatics Europe - ERCIM 2019 Awards Ceremony of the European Computer Science Summit 2018 held in Roma on Tuesday, 28 October 2019. For more... read more →