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In September, following months of rigorous preparation, the UMD Loop team traveled to Las Vegas to compete in the Not-A-Boring competition, organized by Elon Musk’s The Boring Company. Once there, they worked long days and late nights to get their TBM, comprising more than 4,000 parts and weighing several tons in total, into final shape before competition day.

Pobody’s nerfect—not even the indifferent, calculating bits that are the foundation of computers.

IonQ, a quantum computing company headquartered in College Park’s Discovery District and spun off from research at the University of Maryland, went public today on the New York Stock Exchange.Company officials rang the ceremonial opening bell on Wall Street, making IonQ the first publicly traded company focused solely on quantum computer hardware and software. University officials, including President Darryll J. Pines, were in attendance.