CHENNAI : Indian Institute of Technology Madras today announced collaboration with IBM on quantum computing education and research. This collaboration will provide IIT Madras faculty, researchers and students with access to IBM's quantum systems and tools over IBM Cloud to accelerate joint research in quantum computing. Prof Anil Prabhakar of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras said quantum computing offers the opportunity to solve computationally intractable problems. "Such QKD protocols form the building blocks for quantum networks that will secure our communications, and also enable new paradigms like photonic quantum computing besides distributed and blind quantum computing." The quantum computing lab courses will include hands-on lab sessions on the IBM quantum systems and augment existing courses on quantum information and computing.

Source: Mint May 31, 2021 18:00 UTC