Close-up photo of a quantum repeater module mounted on a gold-plated copper assembly and connected to green printed circuit boards, with optical fibers routed up.

Quantum Repeaters Use Defects in Diamond to Interconnect Quantum Systems

Ariana Tantillo | MIT Lincoln Laboratory

This technology for storing and transmitting quantum information over lossy links could provide the foundation for scalable quantum networking.

Superconducting qubit architecture resembling a cross, has blue “T” in center and four squares on longer ends.

New Qubit Circuit Enables Quantum Operations with Higher Accuracy

Adam Zewe | MIT News

This advance in superconducting qubit architecture brings quantum error correction a step closer to reality.

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System Combines Light and Electrons to Unlock Faster, Greener Computing

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL

“Lightning” system connects photons to the electronic components of computers using a novel abstraction, creating the first photonic computing prototype to serve real-time machine-learning inference requests.

Will Cloud or Edge Computing Dominate over the Next 10 Years?

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:00pm ET
MIT Building 34, Room 401, Grier Room

Multiple Speakers

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22FDX Silicon-on-Insulator CMOS for Logic and Edge AI applications

Wednesday, April 5 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
MIT Building 36, Room 426, Allen Room
Hybrid

Speaker: Navneet Jain, GlobalFoundries, Inc.

On left, a complex metallic lab refrigerator has an inset shows a chip. The chip is enlarged on the right and has 4 squares in the middle of the chip. An arrow represents receiving data.

A New Way for Quantum Computing Systems to Keep Their Cool

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

A wireless technique enables a super-cold quantum computer to send and receive data without generating too much error-causing heat.

Against a pink background, a blue and red laser beam shoot down from the top as wavey arrows. They point to a beige atomic nucleus with a gauge needle in the center pointing left, signifying spin direction.

Engineers Discover a New Way to Control Atomic Nuclei as “Qubits”

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office

Using lasers, researchers can directly control a property of nuclei called spin, that can encode quantum information.

A yellow-lit closeup zooms in on one tiny, rectangular amplifier on the wafer. It has a chain-like rectangular grid in center that connects to the left and right edges of the wafer.

Scientists Boost Quantum Signals while Reducing Noise

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

“Squeezing” noise over a broad frequency bandwidth in a quantum system could lead to faster and more accurate quantum measurements.

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Automating the Math for Decision-making Under Uncertainty

Rachel Paiste | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences | MIT CSAIL

A new tool, ADEV, brings the benefits of AI programming to a much broader class of problems.

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New Quantum Computing Architecture Could be Used to Connect Large-scale Devices

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

Researchers have demonstrated directional photon emission, the first step toward extensible quantum interconnects.