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Scientists Open New Frontier in Quantum Science and Technology – SciTechDaily
Researchers used light and electron spin qubits to control nuclear spin in a 2D material, opening a new frontier in quantum science and technology. Credit: Secondbay Studio
2D array of electron and nuclear spin qubits opens a new frontier in quantum science.
Researchers have opened a new frontier in quantum science and technology by using photons and electron spin qubits to control nuclear spins in a two-dimensional material. This will enable applications like atomic-scale nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and the ability to read and write quantum information with nuclear spins in 2D materials.
As published today (August 15) in Nature Materials, the research team from Purdue University used electron spin qubits as atomic-scale sensors, and also to effect the first experimental control of nuclear spin qubits in ultrathin hexagonal boron nitride.
This is the first work showing optical initialization and coherent control of nuclear spins in 2D materials, said corresponding author Tongcang Li, a Purdue associate professor of physics and astronomy and electrical and computer engineering, and member of the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute.
Now we can use light to initialize nuclear spins and with that control, we can write and read quantum information with nuclear spins in 2D materials. This method can have many different applications in quantum memory, quantum sensing, and quantum simulation.
Quantum technology depends on the qubit (quantum bit), which is the quantum version of a classical computer bit. Instead of a silicon transistor, a qubit is often built with an atom, subatomic particle, or photon. In an electron or nuclear spin qubit, the familiar binary 0 or 1 state of a classical computer bit is represented by spin, a property that is loosely analogous to magnetic polarity meaning the spin is sensitive to an electromagnetic field. To perform any task, the spin must first be controlled and coherent, or durable.
The spin qubit can then be used as a sensor, probing, for example, the structure of a protein, or the temperature of a target with nanoscale resolution. Electrons trapped in the defects of 3D diamond crystals have produced imaging and sensing resolution in the 10-100 nanometer range.
However, qubits embedded in single-layer, or 2D materials, can get closer to a target sample, offering even higher resolution and stronger signal. Paving the way to that goal, the first electron spin qubit in hexagonal boron nitride, which can exist in a single layer, was built in 2019 by removing a boron atom from the lattice of atoms and trapping an electron in its place. So-called boron vacancy electron spin qubits also offered a tantalizing path to controlling the nuclear spin of the nitrogen atoms surrounding each electron spin qubit in the lattice.
In this work, Li and his team established an interface between photons and nuclear spins in ultrathin hexagonal boron nitrides.
The nuclear spins can be optically initialized set to a known spin via the surrounding electron spin qubits. Once initialized, a radio frequency can be used to change the nuclear spin qubit, essentially writing information, or to measure changes in the nuclear spin qubits, or read information. Their method harnesses three nitrogen nuclei at a time, with more than 30 times longer coherence times than those of electron qubits at room temperature. And the 2D material can be layered directly onto another material, creating a built-in sensor.
A 2D nuclear spin lattice will be suitable for large-scale quantum simulation, Li said. It can work at higher temperatures than superconducting qubits.
To control a nuclear spin qubit, scientists began by removing a boron atom from the lattice and replacing it with an electron. The electron now sits in the center of three nitrogen atoms. At this point, each nitrogen nucleus is in a random spin state, which may be -1, 0, or +1.
Next, the electron is pumped to a spin-state of 0 with laser light, which has a negligible effect on the spin of the nitrogen nucleus.
Finally, a hyperfine interaction between the excited electron and the three surrounding nitrogen nuclei forces a change in the spin of the nucleus. When the cycle is repeated multiple times, the spin of the nucleus reaches the +1 state, where it remains regardless of repeated interactions. With all three nuclei set to the +1 state, they can be used as a trio of qubits.
Reference: Nuclear spin polarization and control in hexagonal boron nitride 15 August 2022, Nature Materials.DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01329-8
At Purdue, Li was joined by Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Peng Ju, Boyang Jiang, Zhujing Xu, Andres E. Llacsahuanga Allcca, Kunhong Shen, Sunil A. Bhave, and Yong P. Chen, as well as collaborators Kejun Li and Yuan Ping at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Takashi Taniguchi and Kenji Watanabe at the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan.
Nuclear spin polarization and control in hexagonal boron nitride was published with support from Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, DARPA, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, Tohoku AIMR and FriDUO program, and JSPS KAKENHI.
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Will the next era of computing break the Bitcoin price or boost it? – The Motley Fool Australia
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The Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) price is up 1% over the past 24 hours to US$24,823 (AU$34,925).
With the latest nudge higher, the worlds number one crypto is up 6% over the past week. Though BTC remains down 48% year-to-date.
Thats the recent price action.
But is there a bigger threat ahead that could send the Bitcoin price plummeting?
The next era of computing, quantum computing, isnt quite here yet. But it draws inexorably nearer.
And, barring any Terminator-inspired fears of a dominating Skynet, the massive leap forward in supercomputing power should, eventually, bring equally massive benefits along with it.
As for the Bitcoin price, in its current form, the blockchain powering the crypto would be vulnerable to any hackers with access to a quantum computer.
To fix those vulnerabilities is a big, big job, says David Treat, co-lead of Accentures blockchain business.
And its not just Bitcoin. Every crypto would currently be vulnerable to quantum computing decryption.
According to Treat (courtesy of The Age):
The advancement of quantum does challenge our existing encryption but every advancement is as applicable to offence as it is defence. For anything new that were building now, were already very much considering what the post-quantum cryptography requirements will be. The standards for that are just now emerging.
However, everything that currently exists right now will need to be retrofitted. And that is a big, big job.
And if crypto investors dont want to see the Bitcoin price get walloped, Treat says the developers will need to get prepared for the coming reality of quantum computers before those with malicious intent do.
We think theres real urgency around being prepared. If good guys develop it first, they will announce it, Treat said. If a bad actor is the first one to get there, Im not sure theyre going to announce that, instead well just start to see the impacts of it. So getting ready is super important.
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Getting ready for quantum computing: Managing the quantum threat – JD Supra
Experts estimate that within the next decade or so, adversaries will have the capacity to use quantum computing to break the encryption on virtually all existing digital databases.This is why it is highly significant that on July 5, 2022, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) under the USDepartment of Commerce announced that it had selected four quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms that can be used to protect encrypted databases from a quantum attack.
But the danger is not just ten years in the future, but now.Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) attacks are already happening whereby adversaries with strong quantum computing development programs are targeting encrypted data to steal now and decrypt later, when quantum computing arrives.Countries around the world are beginning to recognize this, and some jurisdictions even consider theft of encrypted personal data to trigger mandatory breach reporting, likely for this reason.
Companies therefore should strongly consider preparing now for the post-quantum era by staying informed, understanding new regulatory standards and developing a risk-based approach to quantum transformation.
NISTs Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standardization Project
NISTs selection of four quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms came six years after putting out a public call to the worlds cryptographers to develop quantum-resistant algorithms as part of the agencyspost-quantum cryptography (PQC) standardization project.The projects new cryptographic algorithms will become part of a new NIST standard expected to be finalized in the next two years that can be used to protect data from attacks by quantum computers.Quantum computers are on the cusp of becoming viable and promise to deliver computing power that is potentially millions of times more powerful than current supercomputers. The extraordinary speed at which quantum computers can do complex calculations would render current encryption algorithms obsolete, thereby exposing data to harm if it is not encrypted with quantum-resistant cryptography.
The power of quantum computing
Classic computers today perform logical operations based on a combination of one of two physical states.These binary operations are positive or negative electrical charges and are usually represented as ones or zeros and are called bits (binary digits).
Quantum computers, on the other hand, work on the basis of the principles of quantum mechanics and process information using qubits (quantum bits), that enable them to leverage a third state called superposition, in which they are simultaneously ones and zeros. Qubits can therefore represent numerous possible combinations of ones and zeros at the same time.This allows operations to be performed at exponentially faster speeds than traditional computers.
As an example of the vast difference in computing power between classical computers and quantum computers, Google created a complex mathematical calculation, which its quantum machine called Sycamore, containing 53 qubits, solved in just 200 seconds in 2019.Google claims that the most powerful supercomputer at that time, theIBM Summit (aka OLCF-4)would have required 10,000 years to solve the same problem, thereby showing a 53-qubit quantum computer to be 158 million times more powerful than the leading supercomputer.[i] IBM contested the claim, asserting that Summit could have performed the operation in two and a half days, meaning that Sycamore is only 1,100 times faster than Summit. Even if we assume that IBM is correct, an increase in computing power by a factor of 1,100 is a significant increase using only 53 qubits. In 2021, the MIT/Harvard quantum startupQuEra Computing announced that they had successfully built a 256-qubit quantumsystem. IBM expects to complete a 1,000+ qubit system in 2023; these systems would be exponentially more powerful and quicker than Sycamore,[ii] and development is expected to accelerate.
Quantum computers could allow for great leaps forward in the fields of finance, pharmacology, technological research, weather forecasting, supply chain management, national defense and other fields that deal with highly complex calculations and projections. Companies are looking at using quantum computing to run programs that can accurately identify good stock picks, which some believe could be accomplished faster and more accurately by quantum computers than humans could do on their own.[iii]Pharmaceutical companies could use quantum computing to create complex molecular models to identify new chemicals to be used in drugs.[iv]The power it represents for economic growth and national defense has nations heavily investing in quantum computing. In a very real sense, the push to build a viable quantum computer is a technological arms race for global leadership.
Researchers are working to combine the power of quantum computing with machine learning and artificial intelligence. In 2020, Google released TensorFlow Quantum, an open-source library for protoyping quantum machine learning models, the idea being that quantum computers could be used to develop quantum algorithms that can analyze complex datasets and make decisions faster and more accurately than current artificial intelligence systems. In the simplest terms, artificial intelligence is about making automated decisions using vast data sets.The more factors that feed into the decision, the more complex the decisions becomes, which requires more processing power. Quantum computing could allow artificial intelligence to be used to solve increasingly complex problem sets.
Although there have been strides in quantum computer development, there are major obstacles to the creation of a viable quantum computer outside of a laboratory. Qubits are made of subatomic particles and are very sensitive.To keep a qubit in a superposition, the atom needs to be kept very quiet and isolated in a still state without any external disturbances (such as the influence of the Earths magnetic field), at absolute zero (-459F), and with hardly any atmospheric pressure. Overcoming these obstacles is technologically challenging, expensive and requires highly skilled experts, meaning that at least in the short term, quantum computers will remain in the realm of universities, technology companies, and governments.
Legal significance and risk
Quantum computing could present a threat to organizations with sensitive personal and business information, especially information related to intellectual property, financial systems or national security, if quantum computing were used to break the current encryption standards.This presents a major future risk, as valuable intellectual property, trade secrets, financial data, national security intelligence, and any other data of interest to an adversary with a quantum computer would be exposed unless it were encrypted with a quantum-resistant algorithm.
According to the USIntelligence Community, losing primacy in the field of quantum computing could result in America being eclipsed as the leading world superpower.[v]In 2021, the director of the USNational Counterintelligence and Security Center identified quantum computing as one of the top five key technologies crucial to US world dominance.[vi] Predicting the impact that quantum computing could have on a number of sectors, in 2018, the USgovernment passed the National Quantum Initiative Act to ensure the continued leadership of the United States in quantum information science and its technology applications, and established the Subcommittee on Quantum Information Science of the National Science and Technology Council. Chief among the goals of that Act is to provide for the economic and national security of the United States.[vii]
Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) Attacks.The likelihood that quantum computing will become viable in the near future adds urgency to understanding how quantum computing poses a threat to digital information today.Data that is encrypted and unbreakable has value for adversaries that can steal it today and use quantum computing to decrypt it tomorrow. Foreign adversaries with strong national quantum computing development programs are targeting valuable-but-encrypted data to steal now and decrypt later.Data on quantum computing itself may be especially valuable.
Government response and legislation
Increased Investment in Quantum Computing.In early August, 2022, President Biden is expected to sign into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which will invest USD 280 billion into domestic semiconductor manufacturing and other sciences, including quantum computing and artificial intelligence. Specifically, the Act will require the Secretary of Energy to facilitate advances in quantum computing by supporting: (a) the Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, designed to augment the quantum computing workforce; (b) the Quantum User Expansion for Science and Technology Program, to facilitate access to quantum computing hardware and quantum computing clouds for research purposes; and (c) the Advanced Computing Program, which requires the Secretary to maintain foundational research programs in mathematical, computational, and computer sciences focused on new and emerging computing needs within the mission of the Department, including quantum computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. It will also require the Secretary to establish a research and development program into quantum network infrastructure.The Act highlights the governments intent to keep America at the forefront of the quantum computing frontier.
Post-quantum cybersecurity regulation.The USgovernment has been taking an active role in creating and enforcing standards and rules related to cybersecurity in the private sector over the past few years. Federal and state laws require regulated companies and their vendors in critical sectors to adopt reasonable cybersecurity safeguards. The USDepartment of Defense and other government entities require their agencies and contractors to comply with NIST cybersecurity standards. As we move toward viable quantum computers, national governments may begin to create specific cybersecurity standards related to quantum computing to which certain sectors must adhere. Organizations in the USand elsewhere likely will be required to implement new quantum-resistance encryption algorithms and other measures to defend against attacks by quantum computers, which could require organizations and their vendors to make investments in new hardware and software.
Today, jurisdictions around the world are starting to recognize the dangers of HNDL attacks and to consider theft of encrypted data as triggering mandatory breach reporting.For example, in India, a cybersecurity incident is reportable even if the data is encrypted and in Japan, leaks of secret telecommunications must be reported even where those communications are encrypted.
Getting ready for quantum
Regardless of whether we know the exact time of the arrival of the quantum computer era, experts agree we must begin now to prepare our leadership and our information security systems for a secure quantum economy.Taking an informed risk-based approach to the quantum transformation will begin with the question: How long will it take my organization to become quantum safe and agile?It will require investment of time and resources with the goal of having a coordinated post-quantum development plan and cybersecurity program.Enhancing awareness by keeping informed of technological and regulatory requirements will be a critical step toward meeting the goal of quantum resilience
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[i]https://www.quantamagazine.org/google-and-ibm-clash-over-quantum-supremacy-claim-20191023/
[v] Protecting Critical and Emerging U.S. Technologies from Foreign Threats, National Counterintelligence and Security Center, October 2021, last accessed August 4, 2022. https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/SafeguardingOurFuture/FINAL_NCSC_Emerging%20Technologies_Factsheet_10_22_2021.pdf
[vii] National Quantum Initiative Act of 2018, H.R. 6227, 115th Cong. (2008).
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No One Gets Quantum Computing, Least Of All America’s National Institute of Standards and Technology – PC Perspective
The only good news about Americas National Institute of Standards and Technology new Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation, designed to be unbreakable by a quantum computer, is that it was subjected to extra testing before it became one of their four new quantum encryption algorithms. As it turns out, two Belgians named Wouter Castryck and Thomas Decru were able to break the Microsoft SIKE in under five minutes using a Intel Xeon CPU E5-2630v2 at 2.60GHz.
Indeed, they did it with a single core, which makes sense for security researchers well aware of the risks of running multithreaded; though why they stuck with a 22nm Ivy Bridge processor almost 10 years old is certainly a question. What makes even less sense is that encryption designed to resist quantum computing could be cracked by a traditional piece of silicon before the heat death of the universe.
This particular piece of quantum encryption has four parameter sets, called SIKEp434, SIKEp503, SIKEp610 and SIKEp751. The $50,000 bounty winners were able to crack SIKEp434 parameters in about 62 minutes. Two related instances, $IKEp182 and $IKEp217 they were able to crack in about 4 minutes and 6 minutes respectively. There are three other quantum encryption standards proposed along with this one, so there is some hope that they will be useful for now at least.
If you would like to read more about quantum computing, encryption as well as Richelot isogenies and abelian surfaces then read on at The Register.
wolfSSL Featuring new Updates on FIPS and Post Quantum Cryptography at Black Hat 2022 – PR Web
LAS VEGAS (PRWEB) August 04, 2022
wolfSSL INC. (Headquarters: Edmonds, Washington, USA), a vendor specialized in cryptography and network security, is excited to share updates regarding their products and technology at Black Hat 2022 this August 10 and 11 in Las Vegas, Nevada, at booth #1084
The first update is wolfCrypt, wolfSSLs embedded crypto engine, is on the CMVP MIP (Modules In Process) List for FIPS 140-3. wolfSSL is working with a testing lab to get validated as quickly as possible with the new FIPS standard from the NIST. wolfSSL is the first software library on the FIPS 140-3 MIP list for embedded systems and general purpose multi -platform use.
FIPS 140-3 involves significant changes, and wolfSSL endeavors to deliver the first and best implementation of FIPS 140-3. FIPS 140-3 is the replacement for FIPS 140-2, so it is always a good idea to switch over as soon as possible. Furthermore wolfSSLs FIPS 140-3 Certificate has advantages including:
For more information, please visit the FIPS page here.
The second exciting update is that wolfSSLs flagship product, a security library for embedded systems, supports post-quantum cryptography. As a result, users who use the wolfSSL library can communicate using post-quantum cryptography on TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security), a standard Internet security protocol, without having to make changes to their applications.
Once a quantum computer is built, attackers are able to decrypt communications protected by only non-quantum resistant cryptography. Thus, any information that wishes to remain confidential needs quantum resistant cryptography even before quantum computers exist. In communication protocols like TLS, digital signatures are used to authenticate the parties and key exchange is used to establish a shared secret, which can then be used in symmetric cryptography. This means that, for security against a future quantum adversary, authentication in todays secure channel establishment protocols can still rely on traditional primitives (such as RSA or elliptic curve signatures), but we should incorporate post-quantum key exchange to provide quantum-resistant long-term confidentiality. (https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1017.pdf)
The era of quantum computing is becoming a reality, and ensuring secure network communication is beginning to appear as a real challenge. NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) in the competition for Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization has announced the algorithms moving on to standardization. They are Kyber, Dilithium, Falcon, and SPHINCS+. We have already integrated OQS implemenations of Kyber and Falcon and are integrating the other two as well. We are working hard to craft our own implementations of these algorithms. Work for Kyber is already underway. Open Quantum Safe (OQS), an open source project, provides these finalist algorithms as a library, liboqs.
This post-quantum cryptography support for wolfSSL implements the algorithms provided by liboqs in wolfSSL, a TLS library product, and provides it as a product that can be used in embedded systems. This allows device manufacturers using wolfSSL to easily incorporate post-quantum cryptography protocols into their network connectivity capabilities without changing the structure or development environment of their products.
For those of you joining us at #BHUSA22, stop by our booth #1084 and talk to us about FIPS, Post Quantum Cryptography, SSH Daemon, TLS 1.3, DTLS 1.3, hardware crypto acceleration, DO-178, secure boot, Fuzz testing, and everything else that sets us apart as the most secure crypto out there. Customers win with wolfSSL, weve got the numbers to prove it.
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wolfSSL focuses on providing lightweight and embedded security solutions with an emphasis on speed, size, portability, features, and standards compliance. With its SSL/TLS products and crypto library, wolfSSL is supporting high security designs in automotive, avionics, and other industries. In avionics, wolfSSL has support for complete RTCA DO-178C level A certification. In automotive, it supports MISRA-C capabilities. For government consumers, wolfSSL has a strong history in FIPS 140-2, with upcoming Common Criteria support. wolfSSL supports industry standards up to the current TLS 1.3 and DTLS 1.3, is up to 20 times smaller than OpenSSL, offers a simple API, an OpenSSL compatibility layer, is backed by the robust wolfCrypt cryptography library, and much more. Our products are open source, giving customers the freedom to look under the hood.
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IonQ to Participate in Third Annual North American Conference on Trapped Ions (NACTI) – Business Wire
COLLEGE PARK, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), an industry leader in quantum computing, today announced its participation in the third annual North American Conference on Trapped Ions (NACTI). The event will take place at Duke University on August 1-4, 2022, and brings together dozens of the worlds leading quantum scientists and researchers to discuss the latest advancements in the field of quantum.
Participating for the third time at this event, IonQ co-founder and CTO Jungsang Kim will speak on the latest IonQ Aria performance updates, IonQ Forte gate results, and the importance of an industry-wide benchmarks based on a collection of real-world algorithms such as algorithmic qubits (#AQ) that can better represent any quantum computers performance and utility.
Other topics on the agenda for NACTI include: quantum scaling and architectures, including networking; fabrication and development of new traps; increasing accessibility; control hardware and software for trapped ions; new qub(d)its and gates; quantum computing and simulation employing ion trapping techniques; looking beyond atomic ions; precision measurements and clocks; among others.
To learn more about IonQ Aria with details on performance and its technical prowess, click the link here for more information.
About IonQ
IonQ, Inc. is a leader in quantum computing, with a proven track record of innovation and deployment. IonQ's current generation quantum computer, IonQ Forte, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems, including IonQ Aria, a system that boasts industry-leading 20 algorithmic qubits. Along with record performance, IonQ has defined what it believes is the best path forward to scale. IonQ is the only company with its quantum systems available through the cloud on Amazon Braket, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as through direct API access. IonQ was founded in 2015 by Christopher Monroe and Jungsang Kim based on 25 years of pioneering research. To learn more, visit http://www.ionq.com.
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Explosive growth of faculty, courses and research signal new era for Computer Science at Yale – Yale University
With numerous new courses, new faculty members, and a wider range of research fields, Computer Science (CS) at Yale is better positioned than ever to take on emerging challenges, and to meet the needs of students, interdisciplinary research on campus, and industry.
The CS department has recently hired nine tenure track faculty members and four teaching track lecturers to its ranks. These hires are in addition to an earlier round of 11 new tenure track faculty members and two lecturers hired in the last few years. The boost in hiring accomplishes a number of long-term goals, including expanding the department's areas of expertise. Also, as Computer Science has emerged as the second-most popular major (just behind economics) at Yale, it will go a long way toward meeting students' curriculum needs.
"Our new faculty members were chosen for the excellence of their research, as well as for their fields that they represent, all of which have been in high demand by both our students and faculty on campus as well as the industry," said Zhong Shao, the Thomas L. Kempner Professor of Computer Science and department chair. "The range of their expertise addresses some of the most critical challenges that we face today."
SEAS Dean Jeffrey Brock said the new faculty will be critical to realizing the ambitious goals set out in SEAS' Strategic Vision, particularly in the areas of artificial intelligence and robotics, while building in key areas like cybersecurity and distributed computing.
"This exciting cohort of new faculty stands to transform our CS department," Brock said. "During our recruiting season, they sensed Yale's momentum in CS and in engineering, ultimately turning down excellent offers at other top schools to join our faculty. Their presence will allow Yale CS to expand their course offerings, as well as to establish critical mass in core and cutting-edge research areas."
Many of the new faculty members, like Fan Zhang, cited the department's "fast growth in recent years." Others said that they were drawn by the collaborative environment at Yale, especially considering that Yale is ranked at or near the top in numerous research areas. Daniel Rakita, for instance, said he's looking forward to working with the Yale Medical School to see how his lab's robotics research can assist in hospital or home care settings, as well as working with the Wu Tsai Institute on Brain-Machine Interface technologies.
"Many people I spoke with indicated that there are no boundaries between departments at Yale, and interdisciplinary research is not just encouraged here, but is a 'way of life,'" Rakita said. Many of the new faculty have already engaged with key academic leaders around the campus, from medicine, to economics, to quantum computing.
As part of this boost in hiring, the department strategically targeted certain research areas, including artificial intelligence, trustworthy computing, robotics, quantum computing, and modeling.
The nine new tenure-track faculty hires, and their areas of research are below.
[We spoke to these new faculty members about their research, their motivations, potential collaborations, and much more. Click here to learn more about each of our latest faculty]
The four new teaching-track lecturer hires, and their areas of research are:
This hiring season marks the first since the changes in structure that made SEAS more independent, granting more faculty lines for growth.
"Our independence and ability to be opportunistic were key elements in our ability to realize this transformational growth of Computer Science at Yale," Brock said. "As CS plays such a critical role in an increasingly broad range of disciplines, the size and breadth of CS is critical to our strategy for SEAS. I'm thrilled to be able to take the first step in realizing that vision for a SEAS that is well integrated within its host University and aligned with its mission."
SEAS became independent from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in July of 2022.
A curriculum to meet the needs of students and industry
Increasing the department's curriculum has also been in the planning stages for a while, a goal made possible by the recent hires of new faculty and lecturers. Shao said there was a concerted effort to meet the high demand in areas such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning, introductory programming and CS courses for non-majors.
"This has been on the to-do list for the department for many years, but we just didn't have the manpower," Shao said. "And finally, with the new faculty hires, we can actually offer these courses."
Ben Fisch, for instance, will be teaching a new course on blockchains for both graduate students and advanced undergraduates in computer science. Tesca Fitzgerald will introduce a new graduate-level seminar on Interactive Robot Learning. And Katerina Sotiraki will teach classes in theoretical and applied cryptography, at both the undergraduate and graduate level. These are just a few of the new courses that will be available.
Responding to industry needs, the department has also added courses focused on what's known as full stack web programming - that is, the set of skills needed to develop the interface as well as the coding behind building a complete web application. One of the department's most popular courses, on software engineering, will now be offered for both semesters of the year, instead of one. Both, Shao said, are specifically aimed at the needs of industry and students.
"As new challenges emerge, Computer Science at Yale will continue to adapt," Shao said. "We're excited about the future of our department, and these new additions to our faculty and our curriculum are going to be a major part of it."
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Multiverse Collaborating with Bosch to Optimize Quality, Efficiency, and Performance in an Automotive Electronic Components Manufacturing Plant -…
Multiverse Collaborating with Bosch to Optimize Quality, Efficiency, and Performance in an Automotive Electronic Components Manufacturing Plant
Multiverse and Bosch will be working to create a quantum computing model of the machinery and process flow in at one of Boschs manufacturing plants in a process known as digital twin. This is a technique where a model of the activities in the facility will be created inside the computer and then enable various simulations and optimizations to be performed which can predict how the plant will perform under different scenarios. The companies will be using both customized quantum and quantum inspired algorithms developed by Multiverse in order to model an automotive electronic components plants located in Madrid, Spain. The companies hope to have first results of this pilot implementation by the end of the year with a goal of finding ways to enhance quality control, improve overall efficiencies, minimize waste, and lower energy usage. Bosch has a total of 240 manufacturing plants that include over 120,000 machines and 250,000 devices which are connected together to provide them with digital control and sensing to optimize performance. So a successful implementation of this digital twin concept could be extended to many more factories and provide Bosch with a significant productivity advantage in the future. A news release from Multiverse about this collaboration can be accessed on their website here.
July 30, 2022
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IQT Predicts Blockchain and Quantum Threat to Spread Beyond Cybercurrencies – HPCwire
NEW YORK, July 27, 2022 IQT Research foresees major commercial opportunities arising to protect blockchain against future quantum computer intrusions and agrees with the White House National Security Memorandum NSM-10, released on May 04, 2022, which indicates the urgency of addressing imminent quantum computing threats and the risks they present to the economy and to national security in our latest report The Quantum Threat to Blockchain: Emerging Business Opportunities.
Although primarily associated with cryptocurrencies, blockchain has been proposed for a wide range of transactions, including in insurance, real estate, voting, supply chain tracking, gaming, etc. These areas are all vulnerable to quantum threats, which lead to operations disruption, trust damage, and loss of intellectual property, financial assets, and regulated data.
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About the Report:
Quantum computers threaten classical public-key cryptography blockchain technologies because they can break the computational security assumptions of elliptic curve cryptography. They also weaken the security of hash function algorithms, which protect blockchains secrets. This new IQT Research report identifies not only the challenges, but also the opportunities in terms of new products and services that arise from the threat that quantum computers pose to the blockchain mechanism. According to a recent study by the consulting firm Deloitte, approximately one-fourth of the blockchain-based cybercurrency Bitcoin in circulation in 2022 is vulnerable to quantum attack.
This report covers both technical and policy issues relating to the quantum vulnerability of blockchain.
From the Report:
About IQT Research
IQT Research is a division of 3DR Holdings, and the first industry analyst firm dedicated to meeting the strategic information and analysis needs of the emerging quantum technology sector. In addition to publishing reports on critical business opportunities in the quantum technology sector, Inside Quantum Technology produces a daily news website on business-related happenings in the quantum technology field. For more information, please visit https://www.insidequantumtechnology.com.
3DR Holdings also organizes the Inside Quantum Technology conferences. The next conference is dedicated to quantum cybersecurity and will be held October 25-27 in New York City.
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