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MONTREAL, April 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- infinityQ Technology, Inc., a women led, engineered and managed startup, today announced its groundbreaking computer, infinityQube. The Montral-based startup has coined its approach quantum analog computing, introducing a novel paradigm in the quantum space. The device is compact, energy-efficient and operates at room temperature, relying on established chip technologies.

We wanted to bring the computational power promised by quantum computing to the market today, said Aurlie Hlouis, CEO and co-founder of infinityQ. While quantum will eventually revolutionize computing, most experts agree that quantum devices will take another decade or more to mature. We, on the other hand, have developed a completely different approach "quantum analog computing." It is analog in two ways referring to analogies with atomic quantum systems as well as to analog electronics. In practice, this means infinityQ develops computational capabilities by using artificial atoms to exploit the superposition effect and achieve quantum computing capabilities without the error correction and cryogenics tax. This allows the company to utilize several times less energy than a typical CPU and that its machine's energy consumption is the same as a common light bulb.

Led by a former senior Navy officer, Aurlie Hlouis, and co-creator of both the Discoverer supercomputer and the infinityQube, Dr. Kapanova, infinityQs novel device is positioned to address some of the most challenging computational problems faced in enterprises, including finance, pharmaceutical, logistics, engineering, energy and more. While currently the company is focused on optimization problems, infinityQ is not limited to them.

As a demonstration of its capabilities, infinityQ used its hardware to solve the Traveling Salesperson Problem for 128 cities while other non-classical machines have solved 22 cities maximum.

"Our technology's additional advantages are two-fold. First, it can be integrated seamlessly into the existing HPC infrastructure," said Dr. Kapanova, CTO of infinityQ. "But moreover, our quantum-analog approach is ideal for the era of edge computing due to its room-temperature capability and low energy requirements."

With John Mullen, former Assistant Director of the CIA; Philippe Dollfus, Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); and Michel Kurek, both former Global Head of Algo Factory and Quantitative Trading for Societe Generale, on its advisory board, infinityQ has raised over $1 million USD in seed funding to date and is currently working with leading financial institutions and pharmaceutical companies on proofs-of-concept as investor-clients. Access to infinityQs hardware technology is available today via the cloud on an invitation-only basis.

infinityQ will make its industry debut at the virtual IQT Conference on May 17-20, 2021.

About infinityQ

Quantum-analog device innovator, infinityQ is leading a paradigm shift: While the current generation of the technology already delivers computational speed-up of 100 to 1000 times depending on the problem, the next generation of the technology will be faster and significantly more energy-efficient. infinityQ aims to address some of the most complex computational optimization problems facing finance, pharmaceutical, logistics, engineering, oil and gas, and other industries. Access to infinityQs hardware technology is available today via the cloud on an invitation-only basis.

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Judy Cha, Ph.D. 09, has been hired as a professor in Cornells Department of Materials Science and Engineering, bringing to her alma mater an expertise in nanoscale materials that will be key to enhancing the universitys NEXT Nano initiative an interdisciplinary program designed to advance nanoscale science and microsystems engineering.

Cha is currently the Carol and Douglas Melamed Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University and will join the Cornell faculty in 2022. Her husband, Alex Kwan, Ph.D. 09, associate professor of psychiatry and neuroscience in the Yale School of Medicine, will join Cornells Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering.

Both alumni are important additions to the College of Engineering, which is growing its roster of interdisciplinary faculty who contribute to university-level centers and initiatives. Cha is a particularly strategic fit, with research interests including atomic understanding of material formation and the design of new materials with applications for quantum computing and information processing.

Judy is a deep thinker who tackles big questions in materials science, said Lara Estroff, chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Her fearless approach combines advanced synthesis with cutting-edge characterization techniques, spanning fields from materials science to physics to electrical and computer engineering. She is already building collaborations across these departments at Cornell.

Chas research group specializes in the synthesis and characterization of a class of materials known as chalcogenides, which include sulfides, tellurides and selenides. Their work to create two-dimensional, layered topological nanomaterials has a range of novel applications, including quantum computing, biological imaging and renewable energy.

I'm really excited to work with other faculty members at Cornell to advance in situ transmission electron microscopy experiments, correlating changes in electrical properties as the nanoscale materials undergo phase transitions at cryogenic temperatures, Cha said. The collaborative environment and long-established research centers at Cornell enable big projects to be undertaken.

Chas homecoming will reunite the professor with her doctoral adviser, David Muller, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering and task force member of NEXT Nano.

I think my group fits nicely with the efforts defined in the NEXT Nano initiative, as we can provide nanoscale topological materials for other groups for sophisticated measurements, Cha said. My primary research focus is on nanowires of topological materials and, currently, I'm looking at a class of topological metals that can rival copper for quantum computing and low-resistance interconnection applications.

Cha is the recipient of the Moore Foundation EPiQS Materials Synthesis Award, the Nano Research Young Innovator Award in Nano Energy, and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, among other accolades.

Kwan to build on legacy of Watt Webb

Kwans research focuses on the medial frontal cortex of the brain. Specifically, his research group uses cellular-resolution optical imaging tools to record neural activity in mice, with applications in understanding psychiatric drugs and the mechanisms underlying mental disorders.

The optical tools used by Kwan can be traced back to his days as a Cornell doctoral student in the laboratory of Watt Webb, the late applied physicist whose imaging techniques revolutionized how scientists observe biological dynamics deep within living tissue. It was in Webbs lab that Kwan developed nonlinear optical microscopes like the ones he uses today to observe the inner workings of the brain.

Watt Webb was a special scientist becausehe always had this sense of wonder every discovery,big or small, was anexciting moment, Kwan said. I try to do the same for my lab, and I believethere is no better place for the students to learn how to do science than at Cornell.

Kwans research focus will be of particular value to the Cornell Neurotech initiative, which aims to develop technologies for revealing how individual brain cells activity in complex neural circuits underlies behavior. He also is expected to develop strong collaborations with Weill Cornell Medicines Department of Psychiatry, according to Marjolein van der Meulen, James M. and Marsha McCormick Director of the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering.

We are excited to have Alex join us as his neural circuit focus is unique and strengthens our neuroscience community within the school and across campus, van der Meulen said. He also adds to our strong imaging and instrumentation effort, bringing expertise in optogenetics, the stimulation and suppression of activity with light.

Kwans research is supported by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Mental Health and the Simons Foundation. He will join the Cornell faculty in 2022.

I look forward to forming new collaborations at Cornell, Kwan said. Its exciting that even though my lab is still preparing forthe move, we have already started talking with people at Cornell aboutnewmicroscopy techniques that can overcome imaging limitations.

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Six Stanford University researchers are among the 120 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists are elected to the NAS by their peers.

The six Stanford faculty members newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead)

The new members from Stanford are Savas Dimopoulos, the Hamamoto Family Professor and professor of physics in the School of Humanities and Sciences; Daniel Freedman, a visiting professor at theStanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (SITP) and professor of applied mathematics and theoretical physics, emeritus, at MIT; Judith Frydman, professor of biology and the Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and professor of genetics in the Stanford School of Medicine; Kathryn A. Kam Moler, vice provost and dean of research, and the Marvin Chodorow Professor and professor of applied physics and of physics in the School of Humanities and Sciences; Tirin Moore, professor of neurobiology in the Stanford School of Medicine; and John Rickford, professor of linguistics and the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities, emeritus, in the School of Humanities and Sciences.

Savas Dimopoulos collaborates on a number of experiments that use the dramatic advances in atom interferometry to do fundamental physics. These include testing Einsteins theory of general relativity to fifteen decimal precision, atom neutrality to thirty decimals, and looking for modifications of quantum mechanics. He is also designing an atom-interferometric gravity-wave detector that will allow us to look at the universe with gravity waves instead of light.

Daniel Freedmans research is in quantum field theory, quantum gravity and string theory with an emphasis on the role of supersymmetry. Freedman, along with physicists Sergio Ferrara and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, developed the theory of supergravity. A combination of the principles of supersymmetry and general relatively, supergravity is a deeply influential blueprint for unifying all of natures fundamental interactions.

Judith Frydman uses a multidisciplinary approach to address fundamental questions about protein folding and degradation, and molecular chaperones, which help facilitate protein folding. In addition, this work aims to define how impairment of cellular folding and quality control are linked to disease, including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, and examine whether reengineering chaperone networks can provide therapeutic strategies.

Kam Molers research involves developing new tools to measure magnetic properties of quantum materials and devices on micron length-scales. These tools can then be used to investigate fundamental materials physics, superconducting devices and exotic Josephson effects a phenomenon in superconductors that shows promise for quantum computing.

Tirin Moore studies the activity of single neurons and populations of neurons in areas of the brain that relate to visual and motor functions. His lab explores the consequences of changes in that activity and aims to develop innovative approaches to fundamental problems in systems and circuit-level neuroscience.

John Rickfords research and teaching are focused on sociolinguistics the relation between linguistic variation and change and social structure. He is especially interested in the relation between language and ethnicity, social class and style, language variation and change, pidgin and creole languages, African American Vernacular English, and the applications of linguistics to educational problems.

The academy is a private, nonprofit institution that was created in 1863 to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology. Scholars are elected in recognition of their outstanding contributions to research. This years election brings the total of active academy members to 2,461.

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Republicans wrestling over the future of the party are debating whether to embrace the culture wars that helped former President TrumpDonald TrumpFacebook Oversight Board to rule on Trump ban Wednesday Rubio keeping door open on White House bid Lincoln Project taunts Trump, saying he lost to 'swamp,' McConnell MORE cement his popularity with the GOP base.

The internal rift, which involves congressional leaders and potential 2024 presidential contenders, comes as Republicans have struggled to dent President BidenJoe Biden1.6 million US air passengers fly in a day for first time since last March Biden administration eyeing long-term increase in food stamps: report Conspiracy against the poor MOREs popularity and as they plot their strategy to win back the House and Senate in the 2022 midterms.

While some in the GOP are eager to double down on Trumps brand of populism, others argue the party needs to return to its roots.

I think that the long-term future of the Republican Party requires it to be some version of the traditional Republican Party: strong on national security, low taxes, limited government, limited regulation and in the broadest sense of the word, pro-business, said Vin Weber, a Republican strategist, who espouses the more traditionalist party.

But he also acknowledged, Were at a moment when cultural issues are pushing everything else aside.

"There's no escaping that cultural issues are dominating," Weber said.

Issues that have dominated the conservative mediasphere in recent weeks include Major League Baseballs decision to pull the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta because of Georgias new voting law; the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial; a company halting publication of certain Dr. Seuss books due to racist imagery; and a false report that the Biden administration wouldlimit meat consumption as part of its fight against climate change.

The vanguard pushing the GOP to become more populist in Trumps image include Sens. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzGOP wrestles with role of culture wars in party's future Maher on Biden's trillion plans: 'Thank God we got Mexico to pay for that wall' Overnight Defense: Gillibrand makes new push for military sexual assault reform | US troops begin leaving Afghanistan | Biden budget delay pushes back annual defense policy bill MORE (R-Texas) and Josh HawleyJoshua (Josh) David HawleyGOP wrestles with role of culture wars in party's future Washingtonkeeps close eyeas Apple antitrust fight goes to court TikTok names new CEO MORE (R-Mo.) two potential 2024 presidential candidates who say they will no longer accept corporate PAC contributions.

Starting today, I no longer accept money from any corporate PAC. I urge my GOP colleagues to do the same. For too long, Republicans have allowed the left & their big-business allies to attack our values & ship jobs overseas with no response. No more,Cruz tweeted on Wednesday.

That prompted an enthusiastic response from Hawley, who retweeted Cruz the following day.

Yes! Corporate America has put Americans last. They ship our jobs to China, mock middle Americas way of life, try to control our speech and run our lives,Hawley wrote. Its time we stood up to them. I wont take corporate PAC donations & Ill fight to break up their monopoly power.

The bashing of corporations is striking a discordant tone with other Republicans at a time when theyre trying to marshal a unified defense against Bidens plan to raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent, from 21 percent, to pay for his infrastructure agenda.

Its repudiating a segment of the American economy and the American electorate that has traditionally been very loyal to the Republicans. Its an amazing example of ideological shapeshifting to wage war along cultural lines, said Ross K. Baker, professor of political science at Rutgers University and a former Senate fellow.

Trump has yet to say whether he will run for president again in 2024, but on Thursday he said that if he did he would "certainly" consider Florida Gov. Ron DeSantisRon DeSantisGOP wrestles with role of culture wars in party's future Will DeSantis, Rubio and Scott torch each other to vault from Florida to the White House? Florida passes bill prohibiting social media companies from banning politicians MORE (R) as a running mate. DeSantis is a staunch conservative and longtime Trump ally.

The competing GOP approaches in the post-Trump era are also reflected in the starkly different styles of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellLincoln Project taunts Trump, saying he lost to 'swamp,' McConnell The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Emergent BioSolutions - Biden sales pitch heads to Virginia and Louisiana Vaccine hesitancy among lawmakers slows return to normalcy on Capitol Hill MORE (R-Ky.), a strong defender of traditional Republicanism, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin McCarthyThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Emergent BioSolutions - Biden sales pitch heads to Virginia and Louisiana Vaccine hesitancy among lawmakers slows return to normalcy on Capitol Hill GOP wrestles with role of culture wars in party's future MORE (R-Calif.), who has tied himself more to Trumps brand of conservatism.

McConnell hasnt spoken to Trump since mid-December and denounced the former president's role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Since then, he has rarely invoked Trump by name.

McCarthy, by contrast, visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort shortly after he left office and is now working closely with him ahead of the midterm elections.

Trump on Thursdayrenewed his call for Senate Republicans to replace McConnell as their leader, and promised to be a force in the midterms, citing his work with McCarthy.

But the lines in the internal debate over culture wars are fluid. McConnell joined in the tough talk directed at corporate America last month when he warned CEOs to stay out of politics. He later backpedaled after being pressed on his longtime advocacy of allowing companies to spend freely on political campaigns.

More recently, McConnell led more than three dozen Senate Republicans incalling for the Education Department to abandon plans of offering grants to schools that include The New York Times's "1619 Project," which reframes U.S. history around the arrival of the first slave ship, in their curriculum.

This is a time to strengthen the teaching of civics and American history in our schools. Instead, your Proposed Priorities double down on divisive, radical, and historically-dubious buzzwords and propaganda, the GOP senators wrote last week in a letter to Education Secretary Miguel CardonaMiguel CardonaGOP wrestles with role of culture wars in party's future McConnell wants '1619 Project' removed from federal grant programs Biden faces mounting pressure on forgiving student loan debt MORE.

Baker said Republicans see cultural hot-button issues as more effective in generating attention than attacking Biden, who has maintained strong approval ratings since taking office.

A Gallup poll released in April showed Bidens approval at 57 percent 16 percentage points higher than Trumps numbers at the same point in his presidency.

They realize that Biden himself isnt a very good target. But the one thing they can get the blood boiling with are cultural issues: the 1619 Project, Black history, Black Lives Matter, Baker said of Republicans.

Some Republicans want their party to focus less on those topics and more on the issues that unified Republicans before Trump: lower taxes, smaller government, deregulation and a strong national defense.

I know there are these cultural issues ... that get people very worked up and exercised but I think that theres plenty on the policy agenda, lots of ammunition to debate and a lot of contrasts to draw, said Senate Republican Whip John ThuneJohn Randolph ThuneGOP wrestles with role of culture wars in party's future Trump drama divides GOP, muddling message Schumer warns Democrats willing to go it alone on infrastructure MORE (S.D.). You can get distracted.

Thune called the false claims about Biden planning to ban Fourth of July burgers and similar blowups a distraction.

With Biden looking to spend $4.1 trillion on infrastructure, raise taxes and pull troops out of Afghanistan, Thune sees a prime opportunity for Republicans to get back to what had long been their bread-and-butter issues.

The public historically, at least, has trusted us on national security issues, I think with good reason. And I think that will continue to be a strong issue for us, said Thune. The economic cluster of issues, taxes and spending will also be grist for a very robust debate about the future of the country.

Meanwhile, some GOP lawmakers are worried that even the partys base isnt concerned about increased government spending and the price tags on Bidens infrastructure proposals, which are shaping up to cost $4.1 trillion.

The U.S. added nearly $8 trillion to the federal debt during Trumps four years in office and the Republican Partys base is now less concerned about the deficit than it was during former President Obamas first two years in office, when the Tea Party was on the ascent.

Sen. Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyExclusive Cruz, Rubio ramp up criticisms of big business GOP wrestles with role of culture wars in party's future Collins: Republican Party is not led by one person MORE (R-Utah), who was the GOP presidential nominee in 2012, indicated he would prefer Republicans return to what he considered their traditional strengths.

Im not going to criticize other Republicans [and] the issues they tend to focus on. For me, the amount of our debt has been a concern and continues to be and Im going to continue battling on that front, he said when asked about the recent penchant for fellow Republicans to focus on the culture wars.

Romney said traditional Republican positions on taxes, fiscal responsibility and foreign policy are right for our economy and right for our future and will return, hopefully, to the centerpiece of our party.

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I find the debate around the term woke progressively ridiculous. The irony that I am now writing an article about it all has not been lost on me.

The imaginary woke vegan who marches for BLM and Extinction Rebellion has taken over from the black, one-legged, single mother who summed up political correctness gone mad. However, the woke vegan is polarising society to a far greater extent than political correctness ever did.

I agree with the woke direction of travel. Not many people think it is a good idea to connect peoples life chances with their skin colour, place of birth, religion, or sexual orientation. If I am being truthful, I sit in a highly privileged position, as a white male living in the shires of England. Effectively I have hit the jackpot, thanks to the happy incidence of who, what, where and when I was born. This proves, to me, we live in a society which is far away from the meritocracy towards which, in my view, we should be aspiring.

So far, so woke.

My issue is not with the prognosis but the cure. What the woke fail to consider is a viable alternative. On the Hollywood end of the scale, there is hand wringing do as I say, not do as I do; on the radical end there is the wholesale destruction of the institutions and liberties we have constructed and fought for since the end of the dark ages. The movement seems to want to subject, depress, and sermonise The West as being responsible for institutionalised suppression of minoritiesand the alternative is to either moan or destroy.

If I get despondent about woke, then I am maddened by anti-woke. The anti-woke buckets anyone or anything into a woke conspiracy against them. Marxists, Feminists, Gary Lineker, Social Democrats, Transgender, BLM, Meghan, Climate Change, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Remoaners, and the BBC are all sneered at. Especially the BBC.

Key to the anti-woke is telling you what it stands against (be that woke or not), but it struggles to say what it stands for. Take their latest pin-up boy, Laurence Fox. He is standing for London Mayor in his capacity as leader of the Reclaim Party, bankrolled with up to 5 million over several years.

Fox has got some good one-liners, such as Police streets not Tweets and Sadiq Cant. Fox wants freedom, rather as Mel Gibson did in Braveheart. We were meant to be getting a tsunami of freedom back from Brussels, but it never turned up, so he is looking elsewhere. He wants the freedom to not wear a face mask. He wants the freedom to reclaim things, like the right to insult. For example, someone called him a racist on Twitter, so he called them a paedophile. He definitely wants to defund the BBC, presumably to elevate the institution to the level of his Twitter interactions. There is also something about traffic in London I think he is for it.

What I cannot find is a written manifesto for the Reclaim Party. I can find loads of videos on the partys website, such as Fox talking about Western Civilisation being pulled down from within because of critical race theory. (It just isnt.) I can also find a video of Fox supposedly unveiling a manifesto, but there seems to be no copy of it, digital or physical, for me to read. His multi-million pound fighting fund, it seems, does not give Fox the ability to actually publish a declaration of his partys intentions. That would need him to have something to stand for, not against.

Someone who has nothing to do with the woke culture war, as far as I know, is the joker known as Count Binface. Like Laurence Fox he is also standing for London Mayor; in fact, the two are neck and neck in the polls. (Both are on one per cent.) The Count has written a manifesto that includes finishing Crossrail, free parking for electric vehicles between Vine Street and the Strand (look at the Monopoly board), London to re-join the EU and renaming London Bridge Phoebe Waller-Bridge. It says a lot that a man with a bin on his head stands for more concrete, achievable policies than either side of the woke culture wars.

Mainstream politicians are falling into the culture war trap. You see it with all the nationalists: whether they are blaming it on Brussels or Westminster the cry of Freedom is always the same. Its a cry which means very little other than its their fault. When fighting to remain in the EU, Cameron et al just tried to scare us into the status quo, not give us a vision of the future. Today, Keir Starmer should be raining blow after blow on his political opponents, but he is not getting cut through because nobody knows what he believes. If the age of the anti-politician is to come to an end, leaders must tell us what they stand for, not just what they stand against.

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