$5M NSF Grant to Fund Research on Quantum Internet Foundations
A $5 million NSF grant is funding a UMD-led project to develop the hardware necessary to connect ion trap quantum computers and deploy the quantum internet.
Wu Part of $7.5M MURI Award to Develop a Scalable Quantum Random Access Memory Architecture
A University of Maryland expert on quantum computing is part of a multi-institutional team awarded $7.5 million by the U.S.
College Park-born Quantum Firm IonQ Goes Public
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.
Foundational Step Shows Quantum Computers Can Be Better Than the Sum of Their Parts
Pobody’s nerfect—not even the indifferent, calculating bits that are the foundation of computers.
Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science Receives Renewed Federal Funding from NIST
The Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS)—a research powerhouse focused on quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum cryptography—recently received a renewal of federal funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).