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
Nov
01
Oct
28
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
Oct
23
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
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