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"IEEE is now at the center of a global conversation to understand the power and promise of quantum computing." Travis Humble, Oak Ridge National Lab

IEEE Quantum Weekis recognized as a leading venue for presenting high-quality original research, ground-breaking innovations, and insights in quantum computing and engineering. Throughparticipation from the international quantum community,QCE21 offers an extensive conference program withworld-class keynote speakers, technical paper presentations,innovative posters, excitingexhibits, technical briefings, workforce-building tutorials, community-building workshops,stimulating panels,and Birds-of-Feather sessions.

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Participation opportunities are available for a limited time. Authorsare invited to submit contributionsfor technical papers, tutorials, workshops, panels, posters, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. Papers accepted by QCE21 will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, and the best papers will be invited to the journalsIEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (TQE)andACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC). The submission schedule is available at QCE21 Submission Deadlines.

The high standards for QCE21 were set by the tremendous success of the inaugural QCE20.Over 800 people from 45 countries and 225 companies attended the premier event that delivered 270+ hours of programming on quantum computing and engineering.

The second annual Quantum Week will virtually connect a wide range of leading quantum professionals, researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, champions and enthusiasts to exchange and share their experiences, challenges, research results, innovations, applications, and enthusiasm, on all aspects of quantum computing, engineering and technologies. The IEEE Quantum Week schedule will take place during Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).

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QCE 21 is co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Council of Superconductivity, IEEE Future Directions Committee, and IEEE Photonics Society.

About the IEEE Computer Society

The IEEE Computer Societyis the world's home for computer science, engineering, and technology. A global leader in providing access to computer science research, analysis, and information, the IEEE Computer Society offers a comprehensive array of unmatched products, services, and opportunities for individuals at all stages of their professional career. Known as the premier organization that empowers the people who drive technology, the IEEE Computer Society offers international conferences, peer-reviewed publications, a unique digital library, and training programs.

About the IEEE Communications Society

TheIEEE Communications Societypromotes technological innovation and fosters creation and sharing of information among the global technical community. The Society provides services to members for their technical and professional advancement and forums for technical exchanges among professionals in academia, industry, and public institutions.

About the IEEE Council on Superconductivity

TheIEEE Council on Superconductivityand its activities and programs cover the science and technology of superconductors and their applications, including materials and their applications for electronics, magnetics, and power systems, where the superconductor properties are central to the application.

About the IEEE Future Directions Quantum Initiative

IEEE Quantumis an IEEE Future Directions initiative launched in 2019 that serves as IEEE's leading community for all projects and activities on quantum technologies. IEEE Quantum is supported by leadership and representation across IEEE Societies and OUs. The initiative addresses the current landscape of quantum technologies, identifies challenges and opportunities, leverages and collaborates with existing initiatives, and engages the quantum community at large.

About the IEEE Photonics Society

TheIEEE Photonics Societyforms the hub of a vibrant technical community of more than 100,000 professionals dedicated to transforming breakthroughs in quantum physics into the devices, systems, and products to revolutionize our daily lives. From ubiquitous and inexpensive global communications via fiber optics, to lasers for medical and other applications, to flat-screen displays, to photovoltaic devices for solar energy, to LEDs for energy-efficient illumination, there are myriad examples of the Society's impact on the world around us.

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Using Zapatas quantum workflows platform, Orquestra, KAUST will explore how quantum computing can simulate and optimize the aerodynamic design process for vehicles

BOSTON, March 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zapata Computing, Inc., the leading enterprise software company for NISQ-based quantum applications, today announced a new partnership with Middle East-based King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) to be a licensed user of Zapatas Orquestra, the modular, workflow-based platform for applied quantum computing. KAUST is examining various lines of research to determine how quantum technologies could represent an advantage over classical compute tools in a variety of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) use cases for airplane and automobile aerodynamic design.

Currently, CFD computations are extremely time-consuming and expensive to run. The simulation process is inefficient, and a lot of time is wasted trying to model air flow around wings and engines more efficiently. Boosting work around those designs could allow manufacturers to build more energy-efficient airplanes and lead to lowered carbon emissions for air travel therefore, having an enormous positive impact on the environment. Airplane transportation is overall responsible for 2% of greenhouse gas emissions. For airlines and plane manufacturers this could drive meaningful financial and environmental results all supported by new quantum technology.

Home to the KAUST Research and Technology Park (KRTP) where R&D centers, corporates and start-ups choose to locate themselves, the university has a track record of collaborating with industry partners at national and international levels to transfer research-based technology into the market to achieve public benefit.

We are delighted to be the catalyst for bringing quantum capabilities to CFD research in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to the Middle East, said Kevin Cullen, vice president of Innovation and Economic Development at KAUST. This partnership establishes Zapata as one of the first quantum computing companies active in the region and will enable KAUST researchers to explore the future of aerospace fluid dynamics. KAUST is a leader in the areas of data analysis and AI and we welcome the addition of Zapatas Orquestra technology to our capabilities, in order to accelerate discovery and innovation in these fields.

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Zapatas Orquestra platform improves data analytics performance, empowering companies and research organizations to build quantum-enabled workflows, execute them across the full range of quantum and classical devices, and then collect and analyze resulting data. With Orquestra, organizations can leverage quantum capabilities to generate augmented data sets, speed up data analysis, and construct better data models for a range of applications. Importantly, it provides organizations with the most flexible, applied toolset in quantum computing so that its users can build quantum capabilities without getting locked in with a single vendor or architecture in the next several years.

We are always looking to expand quantum computing use cases through Orquestra and our work with KAUST will give us a head start to explore new opportunities for more efficient CFD, said Christopher Savoie, co-founder and CEO, Zapata. The collaboration with KAUST will benefit the aerospace industry as a whole by using quantum to bring efficiency to what has historically been a slow and difficult process.

About Zapata Computing Zapata Computing, Inc. builds quantum-ready applications for enterprise deployment through our flagship product Orquestra the only workflow-based toolset for enterprise quantum computing. Zapata has pioneered a new quantum-classical development and deployment paradigm that focuses on a range of use cases, including ML, optimization and simulation. Orquestra integrates best-in-class classical and quantum technologies including Zapata's leading-edge algorithms, open-source libraries in Python and Julia, and more. Zapata partners closely with hardware providers across the quantum ecosystem such as Amazon, Google, Honeywell, IBM, IonQ, Microsoft and Rigetti. Investors include BASF Venture Capital, Honeywell Ventures, Itochu Corporation and Merck Global Health.

For more information visit http://www.ZapataComputing.com and http://www.Orquestra.io.

About KAUSTEstablished in 2009, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a graduate research university devoted to finding solutions for some of the worlds most pressing scientific and technological challenges in the areas of food, water, energy and the environment. With 19 research areas related to these themes and state of the art labs, KAUST has created a collaborative and interdisciplinary problem-solving environment, which has resulted in over 11,000 published papers to date.

With over 100 different nationalities living, working and studying on campus, KAUST has brought together the best minds and ideas from around the world with the goal of advancing science and technology through distinctive and collaborative research. KAUST is a catalyst for innovation, economic development and social prosperity in Saudi Arabia and the world. For additional information, visit: http://www.Kaust.edu.sa

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Using Zapatas quantum workflows platform, Orquestra, KAUST will explore how quantum computing can simulate and optimize the aerodynamic design process for vehicles

BOSTON, March 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zapata Computing, Inc., the leading enterprise software company for NISQ-based quantum applications, today announced a new partnership with Middle East-based King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) to be a licensed user of Zapatas Orquestra, the modular, workflow-based platform for applied quantum computing. KAUST is examining various lines of research to determine how quantum technologies could represent an advantage over classical compute tools in a variety of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) use cases for airplane and automobile aerodynamic design.

Currently, CFD computations are extremely time-consuming and expensive to run. The simulation process is inefficient, and a lot of time is wasted trying to model air flow around wings and engines more efficiently. Boosting work around those designs could allow manufacturers to build more energy-efficient airplanes and lead to lowered carbon emissions for air travel therefore, having an enormous positive impact on the environment. Airplane transportation is overall responsible for 2% of greenhouse gas emissions. For airlines and plane manufacturers this could drive meaningful financial and environmental results all supported by new quantum technology.

Home to the KAUST Research and Technology Park (KRTP) where R&D centers, corporates and start-ups choose to locate themselves, the university has a track record of collaborating with industry partners at national and international levels to transfer research-based technology into the market to achieve public benefit.

We are delighted to be the catalyst for bringing quantum capabilities to CFD research in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to the Middle East, said Kevin Cullen, vice president of Innovation and Economic Development at KAUST. This partnership establishes Zapata as one of the first quantum computing companies active in the region and will enable KAUST researchers to explore the future of aerospace fluid dynamics. KAUST is a leader in the areas of data analysis and AI and we welcome the addition of Zapatas Orquestra technology to our capabilities, in order to accelerate discovery and innovation in these fields.

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Zapatas Orquestra platform improves data analytics performance, empowering companies and research organizations to build quantum-enabled workflows, execute them across the full range of quantum and classical devices, and then collect and analyze resulting data. With Orquestra, organizations can leverage quantum capabilities to generate augmented data sets, speed up data analysis, and construct better data models for a range of applications. Importantly, it provides organizations with the most flexible, applied toolset in quantum computing so that its users can build quantum capabilities without getting locked in with a single vendor or architecture in the next several years.

We are always looking to expand quantum computing use cases through Orquestra and our work with KAUST will give us a head start to explore new opportunities for more efficient CFD, said Christopher Savoie, co-founder and CEO, Zapata. The collaboration with KAUST will benefit the aerospace industry as a whole by using quantum to bring efficiency to what has historically been a slow and difficult process.

About Zapata Computing Zapata Computing, Inc. builds quantum-ready applications for enterprise deployment through our flagship product Orquestra the only workflow-based toolset for enterprise quantum computing. Zapata has pioneered a new quantum-classical development and deployment paradigm that focuses on a range of use cases, including ML, optimization and simulation. Orquestra integrates best-in-class classical and quantum technologies including Zapata's leading-edge algorithms, open-source libraries in Python and Julia, and more. Zapata partners closely with hardware providers across the quantum ecosystem such as Amazon, Google, Honeywell, IBM, IonQ, Microsoft and Rigetti. Investors include BASF Venture Capital, Honeywell Ventures, Itochu Corporation and Merck Global Health. Enterprise customers include Merck, BP, BBVA, KAUST and Coca Cola Bottlers Japan Inc., among others.

For more information visit http://www.ZapataComputing.com and http://www.Orquestra.io.

About KAUSTEstablished in 2009, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a graduate research university devoted to finding solutions for some of the worlds most pressing scientific and technological challenges in the areas of food, water, energy and the environment. With 19 research areas related to these themes and state of the art labs, KAUST has created a collaborative and interdisciplinary problem-solving environment, which has resulted in over 11,000 published papers to date.

With over 100 different nationalities living, working and studying on campus, KAUST has brought together the best minds and ideas from around the world with the goal of advancing science and technology through distinctive and collaborative research. KAUST is a catalyst for innovation, economic development and social prosperity in Saudi Arabia and the world. For additional information, visit: http://www.Kaust.edu.sa

Media Contact: Anya Nelson Scratch Marketing + Media for Zapata Computing anyan@scratchmm.com617.817.6559

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Zapata Computing and KAUST Partner to Bring Quantum Computing to the Middle East for the Advancement of Computational Fluid Dynamics - Yahoo Finance

Saudi-based King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) will be a licensed user of Zapata Computings Orquestra, the modular, workflow-based platform for applied quantum computing.

KAUST is examining various lines of research to determine how quantum technologies could represent an advantage over classical compute tools in a variety of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) use cases for airplane and automobile aerodynamic design.

Currently, CFD computations are extremely time-consuming and expensive to run. The simulation process is inefficient, and a lot of time is wasted trying to model air flow around wings and engines more efficiently.

Boosting work around those designs could allow manufacturers to build more energy-efficient airplanes and lead to lowered carbon emissions for air travel therefore, having an enormous positive impact on the environment.

Airplane transportation is overall responsible for 2% of greenhouse gas emissions. For airlines and plane manufacturers this could drive meaningful financial and environmental results all supported by new quantum technology.

Home to the KAUST Research and Technology Park (KRTP) where R&D centres, corporates and start-ups choose to locate themselves, the university has a track record of collaborating with industry partners at national and international levels to transfer research-based technology into the market to achieve public benefit.

We are delighted to be the catalyst for bringing quantum capabilities to CFD research in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to the Middle East, said Kevin Cullen, Vice President of Innovation and Economic Development at KAUST.

This partnership establishes Zapata as one of the first quantum computing companies active in the region and will enable KAUST researchers to explore the future of aerospace fluid dynamics. KAUST is a leader in the areas of data analysis and AI and we welcome the addition of Zapatas Orquestra technology to our capabilities, in order to accelerate discovery and innovation in these fields.

Zapatas Orquestra platform improves data analytics performance, empowering companies, and research organisations to build quantum-enabled workflows, execute them across the full range of quantum and classical devices, and then collect and analyze resulting data.

With Orquestra, organizations can leverage quantum capabilities to generate augmented data sets, speed up data analysis, and construct better data models for a range of applications. Importantly, it provides organizations with the most flexible, applied toolset in quantum computing so that its users can build quantum capabilities without getting locked in with a single vendor or architecture in the next several years.

We are always looking to expand quantum computing use cases through Orquestra and our work with KAUST will give us a head start to explore new opportunities for more efficient CFD, said Christopher Savoie, co-founder and CEO, Zapata. The collaboration with KAUST will benefit the aerospace industry as a whole by using quantum to bring efficiency to what has historically been a slow and difficult process.

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In a recent webinar, IBM has summarized the latest advances in cryptographic technologies the company has been working on, including confidential cryptography, quantum-safe encryption, and fully homomorphic cryptography.

According to Gosia Steinder, IBM Hybrid Cloud Research CTO, each of those technologies is solving a different piece of the security equation.

Confidential computing is IBM moniker for security enclave-based cryptography in the Cloud:

Confidential computing provides hardware-level privacy assurance by encrypting data within a secure enclave that not even the cloud provider can view or access.

This enables users to run workloads in the cloud or on-premises with the maximum privacy and control even when they don't own the infrastructure they are using, says Hillery Hunter, IBM VP and CTO of IBM Cloud.

Confidential computing is not only relevant to guarantee data privacy on the Cloud but also to ensure data integrity and to prevent anyone from tampering with the data, says Samuel Brack, CTO of open-source financial platform DIA. The alternative to using confidential cryptography would be a decentralized approach with increased costs and reduced performance, he adds.

Looking at the future, quantum computing is known to pose a serious challenge to cryptography, says IBM cryptography researcher Vadim Lyubashevsky. As he explains, some of today's cryptography is based on factoring, a problem which is considered hard on classical computers but quantum computers can effectively solve. For example, says Lyubashevsky, a prime integer with a thousand digits could require billions of years to be factored on classical hardware, while a quantum computer could in a couple of hours.

A particularly worrisome dimension of this is highlighted by Dustin Moody, mathematician at NIST, who is working at defining standards for post-quantum cryptography. Indeed, while quantum hardware is not yet there, the mere possibility of its existence means encrypted data is potentially under a threat of attack now. In fact, somebody could take hold of that data and wait for quantum hardware to be available to decrypt it. As a consequence of this, he says, you may not be protecting your data for the amount of time you hope you do.

As Moody recounts, NIST is running an open process to select the best crypto systems, based on security and performance. Currently there are seven encryption schemes that advanced to round 2 in the selection process, out of 69 initial competitors. The expectation is to be able to have a draft standard for the first quantum resistant algorithms at the beginning of 2022, with the prospect of completing its standardization by 2024 after a process of public comment.

Transition will not be easy, though, says Moody:

We're dealing with algorithms that are a lot more complex in terms of the math they use and some of the characteristics that they have they also have things like larger key sizes so we as much as possible we're trying to prepare as much as we can and encourage others to do so.

Four of the quantum-safe algorithms that made it to phase 2 were initially proposed by IBM, highlights Lyubashevsky, and they are available through the open source Cryptographic suite for algebraic lattices (CRYSTALS).

These schemes derive their security from the fact that they are based on the presumed algorithmic hardness of something called lattice problems.

In other words, counter to integer factoring, lattice problems are thought to be hard even for quantum computers. To understand what lattice problems look like, Lyubashevsky suggests a simple example. Say you have a public list of six numbers. You pick three of them and then calculate their sum. The problem consists in finding which three numbers you chose from their sum. When you deal with thousands of thousand-digit numbers, it seems this problem would be hard for quantum computers. Lattice problems are just one possible approach to post-quantum cryptography.

As mentioned, IBM is providing an implementation for CRYSTALS, which makes it possible to carry through experiments to assess their performance.

We've noticed that the efficiency of the schemes is such that the end user won't notice any difference. In fact, sometimes the new scheme is even faster. So, the quantum threat is not an existential one for cryptography. We will have security.

According to Lyubashevsky, there is no reason to wait further before switching to lattice cryptography using CRYSTALS. The critical point would be not to hard-code the scheme you use but make it replaceable as a black box. In this way, you are prepared for when standardized quantum-safe schemes become eventually available.

The final front on which IBM is working regarding cryptography is fully homomorphic encryption, which brings the promise of enabling computing data while in its encrypted form. This makes away with the need to decrypt the data before processing it, which leaves it in a vulnerable and exposed state.

IBM FHE has made great advances from its inception to the initial implementation in 2011, which was painfully slow, to 2015, when it became possible to compare two fully encrypted genomes with FHE in less than an hour. FHE is today ready to be used by any companies, from small to large, says IBM.

Eric Maass, Strategy and emerging technology director at IBM, explains that FHE is made possible by some of the same lattice encryption techniques and mathematics used in CRYSTALS.

Adopting FHE in a more widespread manner has been historically complex not just in terms of the calculations that are performed on the data. It also requires a lot of computing power and the skills and learning curve have typically been very steep.

While confidential cryptography is a rather mature technology, homomorphic encryption and post-quantum cryptography are research fields that still attract lots of efforts. IBM is not the only company investing on homomorphic encryption. Microsoft, for instance, released SEAL (Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library), and Google recently unveiled its Private Join and Compute tool. Similarly, a number of efforts towards quantum-safe computing are ongoing at several other companies, including Google, which selected NewHope, Microsoft, with PICNIC, and others.

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