QUANTUM COMPUTING RESEARCH DEVELOPING ACROSS AFRICA, WITH SOUTH AFRICAN WORK UNDERPINNING PROGRESS
August 2nd, 2020
The cutting edge IT field of quantum computing is developing across Africa, with South Africa considered the hub, in part through an IBM centre in Johannesburg that enables academics throughout the continent to freely access its quantum computer network, based in the USA, through the cloud.
“South Africa is a few steps ahead in the advancement of quantum computing and quantum technologies in general,” said Mark Tame, professor in photonics at Stellenbosch University, in the Western Cape.
South Africa’s University of KwaZulu-Natal has also been working on ...
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