Quantum computing Current Affairs, GK & News

QSim- India’s first Quantum Computer Simulator Toolkit

August 28, 2021

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has launched the India’s first ‘Quantum Computer Simulator (QSim) Toolkit’. Key Points QSim is the first-of-its-kind toolkit, indigenously developed in India. It meant to be a vital tool of learning and understanding the practical aspects of programming with the help of Quantum Computers. It will thus bring about ..

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Arvind Krishna appointed as the new Chairman of IBM

February 1, 2020

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has appointed Indian-American Arvind Krishna as its new Chairman. The 57-year-old leader is currently serving as the head of the ‘Cloud and Cognitive software unit’ of IBM. He is known for playing an instrumental role in the acquisition of Red Hat by IBM, undertaken last year. He has also led ..

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Google develops a new 54-qubit processor ‘Sycamore’

October 29, 2019

Google has officially claimed that its researchers achieved a breakthrough in the field of ‘Quantum Supremacy’. The term was coined by American theoritical physicist ‘ John Preskill’ to describe a point where quantum computers can perform any task that can’t be performed by the classical computers. The tech giant have claimed that they have developed ..

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Reforming Higher Education in India

July 15, 2019

To improve the standard of education in the nation and further enhance the quality of students being trained by the technical institutes of the nation, the government plans to not allow conventional low employability potential disciplines from the academic year 2020-2021. What happened? Opposition members claimed that there is a mismatch between the demands of ..

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