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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.

Special Q&A with IQC Executive Director Raymond Laflamme on December 15

The personal journey through the life of physicist Stephen Hawking, as told in his voice through the documentary “Hawking: The Remarkable Story of a Beautiful Mind”, is coming to Waterloo’s Princess Cinemas next month from December 13-17.

Kevin Resch and Roger Melko named Canada Research Chairs for research in quantum physics

Sevag Gharibian receives prestigious award

Congratulations to former Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) PhD student Sevag Gharibian who has been awarded the NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship based on his PhD research in approximation algorithms for quantum problems.