Post date: Jan 17, 2018 5:14:58 PM

Submissions for the IBM Q Prizes are now open: IBM Q Awards website.

Quantum takes the prize

To encourage more teachers and students to take advantage of the IBM Q Experience and the IBM QISKit development platform, IBM Research is announcing today a number of prizes to encourage more of them to take the quantum leap. The prizes include:

• IBM Teach Me Quantum Award – $10,000: Best university-level course-materials for a lecture series incorporating the IBM Q Experience and QISKit. (Submissions close 15 November 2018)

• IBM Q Best Paper Award – $2,500 and invite to a quantum event at IBM Research: Highest-impact scientific paper by a master’s degree or PhD student or postdoctoral researcher that uses the IBM Q Experience and QISKit as a tool to achieve the presented results. (Submissions close 15 July 2018)

• Teach Me QISKit Award – $1,000: Best interactive self-paced tutorial (single or multiple Jupyter Notebooks) that explains a specific focus topic in quantum computing using QISKit and the IBM Q Experience. (Submissions close 31 March 2018)

In addition, a quantum computer is only as useful as the software which can take advantage of it. A fourth prize is therefore being launched for software developers.

• QISKit Developer Challenge – $5,000: Best solution to a specific challenge called: “Optimize to the Max.” The goal is to write a compiler code that takes an input quantum circuit and outputs an optimal circuit for the provided hardware topology. Input circuits are random products of gates from SU(4) applied to random pairs of qubits (< 20 qubits in total). Test circuits are given in the form of a directed acyclic graph and the goal is to map these circuits onto a qubit layout (coupling graph) and reduce the provided cost function as much as possible. (Submissions close 15 May 2018)

For further details visit IBM Q Awards website. Submissions are now open.

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