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The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) held its first Quantum Frontiers Distinguished Lecture of the year on Thursday, March 20. John R. Kirtley, physical research science associate at the Center for Probing the Nanoscale in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University, was the guest speaker at this event.

The way we secure digital transactions could soon change. An international team has demonstrated a form of quantum cryptography that can protect people doing business with others they may not know or trust –  a situation encountered often on the internet and in everyday life, for example at a bank’s ATM.

Over a dozen IQC researchers share their research findings in Denver, Colorado this week

The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) has added renowned physicist Raffi Budakian, Michal Bajcsy and Kyung Choi to grow its faculty complement to 21.

IQC, which was recently allotted an additional $15 million funding by the Government of Canada, continues to grow towards its target of 33 faculty, 55 postdoctoral fellows and 165 graduate students.

Waterloo, Ont. (Tuesday, February 11, 2014) —The University of Waterloo thanks the Government of Canada for renewing its support for the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC).

Economic Action Plan 2014 announced today allots a further $15 million to IQC over three years.

With this federal support, IQC and the University of Waterloo can help Canada lead the world in quantum research and in developing the new companies that will build the quantum information science industry.

- Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor of Waterloo.

IQC masters student Jean-Philippe MacLean selected to receive a prestigious André Hamer Postgraduate Prize from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Researchers at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) have been studying how to keep your private data just that – private, even when performing remote quantum computation on it.

A powerful tool in protecting privacy is the ability to perform computation on encrypted data, and protocols have been found to do this on classical computers. However, the computations that classical computers can perform are limited. Quantum computers, while still in their infancy, have the ability to solve certain problems that are intractable to classical computers.

Christopher Wilson receives John R. Evans Leaders Fund grant

University of Waterloo scientists hope unconventional research will bring them closer to the development of a quantum computer

Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) researcher Dr. Thomas Jennewein and Dr. Vadim Makarov have received a $600,000 contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to design and build a compact prototype Quantum Key Distribution Receiver (QKDR) suitable for a low-cost microsatellite mission.