Month: September 2022

The first laptop and even the first iPhone made significant strides in consumer technology, and it has long been speculated that the mainstream introduction of quantum computers (QCs) will also lead to technological breakthroughs. The one factor hindering the technology is the resources needed to build these computers. Chicago QC startup EeroQhowever, is trying to make the tech more attainable and it recently raised new funding.

Quantum computers are supercomputers, but instead of connecting to the internet or running software, they are used to process large amounts of data from molecular particles. And because of their niche power, QCs are mainly used in scientific fields, but even then are still rare to come across.

In Chicago, EeroQ is working to bring quantum computers to market sooner. The startup raised $7.25 million in seed funding on Wednesday to speed up its hardware production. The latest round was led

With the support of a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Carlos Maltzahn and the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) will participate in collaborative research to increase the reproducibility of computer science research.

This grant comes from the inaugural year of an NSF initiative, called Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable (FAIR) Open Science Research Coordination Networks (FAIROS RCN), to create groups of researchers who lead by example to promote open science results and artifacts. Overall, 10 new project groups were funded to pool $12.5 million into creating open source communities, which foster a vibrant exchange of artifacts within a common infrastructure.

“There’s a huge shift going on,” said Maltzahn, director of UCSC CROSS. “I think it has to do with the realization of how much value the industry places on open source, and