7.5 Million in QC Funding

Levy out of the University of Pittsburg received 7.5 million (in US dollars) funding from the US Department of Defense to lead a team "...to tackle some of the most significant challenges preventing the development of quantum computers...". Full article here.

Interview with Freedman

Here is an interview with Michael Freedman of Microsoft. Freedman is driving the effort there to create a quantum computer through the Station Q group.

It is good to see Microsoft doing some work in the field. I'd figure them to be the company to really drive research into quantum computer programming, but I've yet to come across anything that indicates they're doing so. Speaking of funding research for quantum computer (programming), given the immense payoffs that will come from when we have them, I'm constantly surprised that there isn't more work and funding in the field. (Publicly at least....)