Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW)—a leading global advisory, broking, and solutions company—has long used complex mathematical models to deliver great results for clients and turn risk into growth. However, some problems are still so challenging that they remain intractable with even the most advanced contemporary computational solutions.
Our quantum team made several presentations during Build, ranging from explanations of what quantum computing is, to how to program today for tomorrow’s quantum machines, to using modern developer tools to make programming for quantum easier.
With this month’s Quantum Development Kit release, we’re focused on empowering our users to get engaged with quantum development. The new release makes it easier to learn quantum computing with the quantum katas notebooks.
We are excited to announce that this summer we will be open-sourcing the Quantum Development Kit, including our Q# compiler and quantum simulators.
Our annual developer event, Microsoft Build, will take place May 7–9, 2019, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. The event invites developers, engineers, programmers, and all-around tech creators to gather around emerging technological concepts, including quantum computing.
Today, we’re bringing Q# programming directly to the world of Jupyter Notebooks.
Today, at the inaugural Northwest Quantum Nexus Summit, we announced the Northwest Quantum Nexus, a coalition assembled by three keystone partners: Microsoft Quantum, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the University of Washington.
To develop, test, debug and optimize quantum programs, we can work around this hurdle using quantum simulators to test quantum the execution of a quantum program on a classical computer and other tools that give the developer insight on their program.
Creating a scalable quantum computer will require the collective effort of many skilled and diverse teams. To reach that goal, over the past few years we have built a coalition of partners, universities, customers, and developers, all with the goal of sharing knowledge and collaborating with the best quantum innovators.
Whether you’re new to quantum computing and want to improve your skills, or have done quantum programming before and need a new challenge, we have just the thing for you: The second Microsoft Q# Coding Contest.
Building and deploying scalable quantum computers will require a community of dedicated partners to advance quantum computing, develop practical applications, and build the quantum workforce of the future. That’s why today—at the Quantum for Business conference—we’re announcing partnerships with some of the world’s leading startup talent in quantum software and algorithm development.
The Q# Microsoft Quantum Chemistry Library allows computational chemists using the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit to explore quantum algorithms without the need for a deep understanding of quantum physics.
