Exploring the Relationship between Quantum Computers and Machine Learning

The Google AI Quantum team recently published two papers that contribute to the exploration of the relationship between quantum computers and machine learning. InfoQ has spoken with Google senior research scientist Jarrod McClean to better understand the importance of these results.

IBM May Have Found a Path to Dealing with Decoherence in Current Quantum Computers

In a recent Nature paper, researchers from IBM and other institutions devised two quantum algorithms to train a quantum support vector machine (SVM) classifier and proposed a novel approach to dealing with decoherence and noise in current quantum hardware.

Microsoft Open-Sources Q#, its Language for Quantum Computing

At its Build 2019 conference, Microsoft announced it will open-source parts of its Quantum Developer Kit, including the Q# compiler and quantum simulators, this summer on GitHub.

Microsoft Open-Sources CCF Framework to Improve Blockchain Ledgers Throughput and Latency

Microsoft Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) is an open-source framework aiming to enable the creation of blockchain ledgers that can execute transactions with throughput and latency similar to those of a centralized database, says Microsoft.

Microsoft Launches Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity System

Recently launched in preview by Microsoft, ION is a Decentralized Identifier (DID) network that runs on top of Bitcoin and aims to provide a decentralized identity system and PKI at scale.