During Future Compute, Thierry Botter shared some statistics of the Airbus Quantum Computing Challenge where a mutidisciplinary team from Universidad de Montevideo in Uruguay submitted a proposal for one of the problems.
Future Compute happened at the MIT Media Lab on December 2-3 2019, in the heart of the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. It aims to prepare to understand the fundamental nature of computing trends and how they will affect industries. This includes AI, neuromorphic chips, edge computing, 5G, quantum computing and the internet of things.
In the track dedicated to the business of quantum computing, industry and academic experts examined the current state of the technology, initial applications and opportunities for future disruption. Thierry Botter from Airbus dived into Air Transportation Business Applications of Quantum Computing.
Quantum technologies are expected to create a massive paradigm shift in the way aircrafts are built and flown. Airbus is an early adopter of quantum technologies, attempting to enhance the performance of their products and services and solving the most complex aerospace challenges.
In his presentation Thierry introduced how Airbus has been using HPC (High Performance Computation) and the steps taken into quantum computation.
During January 2019 Airbus launched a Quantum Computing Challenge with 5 problems affecting the air transportation industry. In his presentation, Thierry anticipated some of the statistics of the challenge, currently evaluating the work submissions.
More than 1000 people from more than 70 countries showed interest in the challenge, which resulted in 36 work submissions at the end of October, coming from 8 teams and 28 individuals
A multidisciplinary team at Universidad de Montevideo in Uruguay was one of the 8 teams submitting a work.
This has been part of an initiative started by Rafael Sotelo when in early 2019 organized a Quantum Computing Workshop at the University with Robert Loredo, IBM Qiskit Ambassador and Professor at Florida International University, Miami, FL.
We have been very excited in our quantum computing journey in 2019 and will continue working this year in the technology.