{"id":91046,"date":"2017-09-01T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=91046"},"modified":"2017-09-01T14:08:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T18:08:13","slug":"creative-destruction-lab-readies-accelerator-for-quantum-computing-startups","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/creative-destruction-lab-readies-accelerator-for-quantum-computing-startups","title":{"rendered":"Creative Destruction Lab Readies Accelerator for Quantum Computing Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto established a partnership this month between its recently unveiled Quantum Machine Learning Program and Rigetti Computing, a full-stack quantum computing company.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership aims to support startups focused on developing quantum machine learning software. It will bolster the Lab&#8217;s\u00a0program, <a href=\"https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2017\/05\/24\/d-wave-looks-to-foster-quantum-machine-learning-startups-through-creative-destruction\">which was initially\u00a0unwrapped in May<\/a>\u00a0with D-Wave Systems and launches in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe announced the Quantum Machine Learning Program earlier this year with founding technology partner D-Wave Systems, and since then, the interest from applicants, investors, and technology partners has exceeded our expectations,\u201d said Daniel Mulet, associate director of Quantum Machine Learning at CDL. \u201cThe partnership with Rigetti expands the options of quantum systems available for algorithm development for the companies in our program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativedestructionlab.com\/\">CDL<\/a> believes that quantum computing may soon provide advantages over classical computing in terms of faster optimization, efficient sampling, and reduction in computational complexity, all of which are relevant to machine learning algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>The Rigetti partnership will be the CDL\u2019s first collaboration with a general-purpose, gate-based quantum computing company. Rigetti says it will provide hands-on training in its forest programming environment, including the quantum instruction set Quil, hybrid programming models, and algorithm libraries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe startups at the CDL are at the leading edge of this technology and will get early access to Rigetti\u2019s general-purpose quantum hardware and to Forest, one of the most sophisticated quantum programming environments in the world,\u201d said Madhav Thattai, chief strategy officer at Rigetti. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to working with these pioneering individuals and teams to help create and accelerate the quantum application ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, applications were submitted from around the world to be part of the CDL\u2019s first Quantum Machine Learning cohort. Forty teams were selected for the inaugural year-long program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth Rigetti and the CDL share a common belief that near-term applications of quantum computing will be useful for machine learning applications, so we are delighted that they are investing in building the ecosystem with us,\u201d said Rachel Harris, director of the CDL. \u201cRigetti\u2019s rate of progress and focus on applications make them a key partner for us in this effort.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto established a partnership this month between its recently unveiled Quantum Machine Learning Program and Rigetti Computing, a full-stack quantum computing company. The partnership aims to support startups focused on developing quantum machine learning software. It will bolster the Lab&#8217;s\u00a0program, which was initially\u00a0unwrapped in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1194,1235,507,21],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-91046","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","category-News","tag-accelerator-program","tag-creative-destruction","tag-quantum-computing","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/91046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/91046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91046"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=91046"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=91046"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=91046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}