President Carol L. Folt launches the most comprehensive academic initiative in USC’s history, including a new School of Advanced Computing, educational opportunities in ethical computing for students across the university, and an expansion of USC’s footprint in Silicon Beach.
The Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Award will allow Daniel Lidar’s team to investigate techniques that may unlock quantum computing’s full potential.
From environment, family and transportation to what we’ll eat and how we’ll age, USC faculty share how they think our future world might look.
The USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center will upgrade to D-Wave’s Advantage system with more than 5000 qubits.
The method has the potential to solve some of society’s biggest challenges.
The trustees and administrators discussed issues ranging from quantum computing to DACA students.
The university is proving the promise of the revolutionary new technology that could solve major challenges in the near future.
The goal: machines that are at least 10,000 times faster than the best traditional computers.
Daniel Lidar, Cheryl Mattingly and Viet Thanh Nguyen receive prestigious fellowships to pursue research and literary projects.
USC researchers discover a method to reduce heating, a problem that challenges the potential of the high-powered devices.
The new processor will be used to investigate the possibilities of the advanced technology on real-world problems.
Can the facility’s third processor in four years be capable of solving problems faster than a traditional computer?
With cutting-edge technology, sometimes the first step scientists face is just making sure it actually works as intended.
Scientists at USC have been seeking a solution to decoherence — the “noise” that prevents quantum processors from functioning properly.
A team of scientists at USC has verified that quantum effects are indeed at play in the first commercial quantum optimization processor.
Ben Reichardt has received a National Science Foundation Career Award, joining Yan Liu and Malancha Gupta as USC Viterbi’s third faculty member to land the prestigious prize this year.
Most people don’t think twice about how Internet search engines work. You type in a word or phrase, hit enter and poof — a list of Web pages pops up, organized by relevance.
Two doctoral students at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences were awarded the Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Research from the USC Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences for contributions to the fields of mathematics and physics.
USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) marked its 40th anniversary on April 26 with an afternoon seminar on its groundbreaking technological achievements and an evening of celebration.
Diamonds are forever – or, at least, the effects of this diamond on quantum computing may be.
When American physicist Richard Feynman in 1982 proposed creating a quantum computer that could solve complex problems, the idea was merely a theory scientists believed was in the distant future.
Building on its history of pioneering advances in high-performance computing and the Internet, USC now is exploring the future of quantum computing.
Scientists have taken the next major step toward quantum computing, which will use quantum mechanics to revolutionize the way information is processed.