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AUKUS and Australia’s Strategic Future: A Deep Dive into AUKUS and Emerging Technologies
In this guest post, Project Q Researcher Yatharth Pandey examines […]...
AI’s “Oppenheimer Moment”
At a special screening of his new film “Oppenheimer,” the […]...
The Ethics of Quantum AI: The End of the World and Back Again
For the past few weeks, Twitter has been obsessed with […]...
Einstein, Entanglement, and the Nobel Three
On Tuesday the 4th of October, 2022, the Royal Swedish […]...
Quantum Surveillance
If quantum surveillance, by leveraging quantum algorithms and unlimited access to metadata, could id...
Time, What Time?
Newton, Einstein, and Bohr argued for different understandings of time. When we look back on 2020, a...
China Claims Quantum Advantage
From the world of the extremely small comes one extremely big number: China claims its new, purpose-...
The quantum internet should be space-based—or should it?
Satellites have become utterly vital to state infrastructures, making them fundamental assets for co...
Project Q Interview: Stephanie Wehner on Building a Quantum Internet
We recently sat down with Stephanie to discuss Europe’s Quantum Internet Alliance, future use-valu...
The ‘Who, What, Where, When and Why’ of a Quantum Internet
With all of the recent hype about quantum supremacy, it’s easy to forget that quantum supremacy in...
All Hype and No Game? Google, IBM, Preskill and Quantum Supremacy
Feature image: IBM’s System One quantum computer, via The New […]...
Quantum Superposition Bridges the Classic World
Cracks have begun to show in one of quantum’s biggest […]...
Transforming Drug Development: A Critical Role for Quantum Computing
Feature image via Nature With news of Google’s possible achievement […]...
Creating Space for Informed Democracy
Nicholas Cage replaces Tom Hiddleston in a deepfake of Thor […]...
Google Achieves Quantum Supremacy?
A Project Q recap of last week's exciting quantum news and what it all means....
Project Q funding renewed as quantum supremacy is announced
Project Q has been awarded $US400,000 to complete research into […]...
Why Has Science Stopped Trying to Understand Quantum Theory?
Most people don't understand quantum mechanics, but did you know that not even the physicists who cr...
India Races Toward Quantum Amid Kashmir Crisis
Question: What do the new Indo-French agreement and the Kashmir crisis share in common? Hint: As...
Quantum Teleportation: Paving the Way for a Quantum Internet
Last week’s big quantum news centred on two proof of […]...
Andrew Yang 2020: Growing American Faith in Techno-Realism
Feature image via The Verge Gabriella Skoff The U.S. 2020 […]...
Where is the Middle East in the Quantum Race?
Gabriella Skoff The quantum race, like the space race before […]...
Could Quantum Computing Help Curb AI’s Carbon Footprint?
Feature image via MIT Technology Review. Gabriella Skoff For the […]...
Saving Schrödinger’s Cat: Researchers Discover an Early Warning Signal for Quantum Jumps
Feature image via Science X. Gabriella Skoff Schrödinger’s cat is […]...
Grand Theories & Wendt’s World
Feature image via Project Q. Alexander Wendt is a “walking, […]...
Honeywell Enters the Quantum Race
Feature image via the University of Oxford Department of Physics […]...
Quantum Policy Priorities for the 46th Australian Parliament
Feature image from Quintessence Labs Gabriella Skoff Ahead of this […]...
When Quantum Meets AI: PERILS, as Two of our Future’s Most Powerful Technologies Collide
Part III of III Gabriella Skoff Quantum computing and artificial […]...
When Quantum Meets AI: Promises and Perils as Two of Our Future’s Most Powerful Technologies Begin to Collide
Image via GCN Part I of III Gabriella Skoff The […]...
Moving Beyond Ethics in Data Science
Image Credit: Centre for Translational Data Science, University of Sydney. […]...
The Robots in Your Supermarket
Jayson Waters AI and other algorithmic technologies have long played […]...
The Quantum Question of an Objective Reality
Thought experiments in the domain of quantum physics have long […]...
QRP3 – The Quantum Race: Winners, Losers, Dark Horses
Susannah Lai The last panel of this year’s symposium turned […]...
QRP3 – Metaphysics: Ontological, Biopolitical, Conspiratorial
Susannah Lai The next panel took a turn for the […]...
QRP3 – Macrophysics: Intelligence, Strategy, Hype
Susannah Lai The next panel of the day focused on […]...
QRP3 – Microphysics: Ions, Anyons, Photons
Susannah Lai The second day of this year’s Q Symposium […]...
QRP3 – Parallels: Nukes, Space, Cyber
Susannah Lai The second panel of the day investigated the […]...
QRP3 – Quantum Race: Sprint, Marathon, False Start?
Susannah Lai The bulk of the Q Symposium takes place […]...
QRP3 – The Geopolitics of the Quantum Race
Susannah Lai The start of 2019 heralded many things: the […]...
Words of Consequence
Image credit: Ghost in the Shell (2017) Alexander Vipond OpenAI, […]...
Breaking the Internet: A Question of Timing
Are we running out of time to save the internet? […]...
Can quantum technologies help save the world?
Image via United Nations University Part 3 of 3: Modelling Gabriella […]...
Can quantum technologies help save the world?
Image via United Nations University Part 2 of 3: Energy […]...
Can quantum technologies help save the world?
Part 1 of 3: Monitoring Gabriella Skoff The first instalment […]...
Can quantum technologies help save the world?
A three-part examination of quantum applications for environmental security Image […]...
Quantum Supremacy: Nearing Reality?
Quantum physicist John Martinis with a quantum computer at Google […]...
The Making of Ethical Machines
Niander Wallace pondering the creation of life altering new technologies […]...
The Politics of Electoral Security
Children hack voting machines in the DEF CON voting village. […]...
Quantum Philanthropy: The vital role of social science research in quantum futures
Image via The OCR Gabriella Skoff As Stephen Del Rosso […]...
Visions of a Quantum Future: US takes the long view
Alexander Vipond Unbeknownst to most, the White House held a […]...
Quantum War: Recent lectures by Project Q’s James Der Derian
This past week, James Der Derian, Director of the Centre […]...
In memory of Paul Virilio (1932-2018): Post-Einsteinian analyst of war and peace
James Der Derian ‘Is the author dead?’ To this […]...
Keeping up with quantum: The Pentagon’s JEDI contract
Image via ZDNet Gabriella Skoff The U.S. Department of Defense […]...
A quantum blockchain revolution?
Image via Bitcoin Magazine Gabriella Skoff Blockchain has been a […]...
The role of tech companies in achieving quantum supremacy
Image via The Intercept Gabriella Skoff In anticipation of the fifth […]...
Space Force and quantum: the next chapter of the space race
Six potential logos for the US Space Force, created by […]...
Facial Recognition in Democracy
Smart contact lens based facial recognition, one possible future. Glasses […]...
Quantum Computing and the New Space Race
As the race for quantum supremacy heats up, the question […]...
Collective Intelligence: DeepMind’s AI plays Quake 3
Alexander Vipond British AI firm DeepMind has a penchant for […]...
Google and the Ethics of AI Development
In Westworld, Dr Robert Ford ponders the artificial intelligence products […]...
The United States in the Quantum Race?
Alexander Vipond Chrysostomos Loizos Nikias, President of the University of […]...
A Bright Quantum Future: France and Australia join forces
Alexander Vipond Australia and France will come together to develop […]...
Quantum Theory and the International
Meshon Center Conference on Quantum Theory and the International. Left: […]...
QC3I: 4th Annual Q Symposium
The fourth annual Project Q symposium (Q4), held 15-17 February, […]...
Peace and Security in a Quantum Age
Susannah Lai & Alex Vipond This panel was moderated by […]...
Quantum Intelligence: Plant, Animal and Machine
Susannah Lai & Alex Vipond This panel was moderated by […]...
Quantum Communication: Alice, Bob and Micius
Susannah Lai & Alex Vipond This panel was moderated by […]...
Quantum Control: Of What by Whom and How?
Susannah Lai & Alex Vipond This panel was moderated by […]...
Quantum Computing: Y2Q, Y2K or HAL?
Susannah Lai & Alex Vipond This panel was moderated by […]...
The Quantum Now: Hardware, Software and Wetware
Susannah Lai & Alex Vipond Moderated by James Der Derian […]...
‘Strange Physics: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, drones, artificial intelligence and quantum computers’
Susannah Lai & Alex Vipond The 2018 Q Forum was […]...
The Security Threats of Quantum Computing
While much of the talk about the post-quantum future concerns […]...
The Quantum AI Revolution
Some 200 years ago, the Industrial Revolution drove workers from […]...
Quantum Economics
Photo by Martina Birnbaum/EyeEm/Getty published online by Aeon Twenty years […]...
The Race for Quantum Supremacy
When Project Q began its investigations into quantum innovation in […]...
Microsoft intensifying its presence in the higher education research field
Last July, Microsoft and The University of Sydney announced a […]...
Carnegie Corporation announces major grant for Project Q
Who will benefit from and who will be harmed by […]...
Is uncertainty the defining feature of our contemporary experience?
This past month the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) […]...
The Cyber Age Demands a New Understanding of War — But We’d Better Hurry
Project Q Director, James Der Derian wrote an article for […]...
The future is quantum: solution to the world’s critical problems
Quantum physicist and professor from the University of Bristol, Jeremy O’Brien […]...
A sneak preview of ‘Project Q: The Question of Quantum’
At a special roundtable at the International Studies Association […]...
Project Q highlighted in new piece on ‘quantum philanthropy’
Program director for international peace and security at the Carnegie […]...
Foundations are joining the forefront to support research in quantum physics
The Simons Foundation recently announced the formation of the Center […]...
Are open-source softwares a step forward in our quest for quantum computers?
In the race to develop and build quantum computers, D-Wave […]...
Is 2017 the year of the quantum computer?
With computing giants such as Google and Microsoft, along with […]...
Project Q interviews leading figure in Microsoft’s new quantum computing initiative
Image: From left, Leo Kouwenhoven and Charles Marcus attend the […]...
The Quantum Brain
Quanta Magazine recently published this article describing a new, groundbreaking […]...
Singaporean telco Singtel joins forces with National University of Singapore in the name of cybersecurity
Yesterday, the National University of Singapore announced their partnership with […]...
Quantum Leap: China’s satellite and the new arms race
Q3 speaker Taylor Owen recently wrote a piece for Foreign […]...
China launches first quantum communications satellite
China has successfully launched the world’s first quantum-communications satellite, which [&he...
Q3 Symposium Highlight Video with Project Q Announcement
Watch the highlight video of the 3rd annual Q Symposium (Q3), […]...
Q3 Provides Chance to Reflect on Project Q’s Progress
While progress towards a meaningful quantum computer has yet to […]...
Watch the final roundtable from Q3 Symposium
The final roundtable from the third annual Q Symposium held […]...
Is it time for a quantum leap in climate change?
Professor Karen O’Brien from the University of Oslo joined the […]...
Q3 Symposium featured in latest SSPS Review magazine
The latest issue of the SSPS Review, a digital magazine published by […]...
Europe announces plan to launch billion dollar project in quantum technologies
The European Commission has announced plans to launch a €1 billion […]...
The quest for quantum on Future Tense
Project Q’s Director, Professor James Der Derian was recently featured […]...
Watch the Quantum Moment and Matter panels from the Q3 Symposium
View the full recordings of the Quantum Moment and Matter […]...
The Q3 Symposium: Quantum Metaphysics panel
In opening the panel on quantum metaphysics, Dr. Jairus Grove […]...
Sydney University quantum lab receives multimillion dollar grant from US intelligence
The Quantum Control Lab, led by Q3 Speaker, Associate Professor […]...
Malcolm Turnbull pledges support for quantum innovation
Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull today attended the launch of a […]...
The University of Sydney launches world-leading nanoscience institute
This week, the University of Sydney launches the Australian Institute for Nanoscale […]...
Canadian Prime Minister ducks question about ISIL, but nails quantum
Justin Trudeau visited the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo last week to […]...
The Q3 Symposium: Quantum Mind panel
Following on from the Quantum Moment and Quantum Matter panels […]...
New research in photon technology may hold the key to unhackable communication
A research team from the University of Sydney’s School of Physics […]...
Alexander Wendt’s animated lecture on ‘Quantum Mind and Social Sciences’ goes live
Last June, the Project Q team travelled to Ann Arbor […]...
Watch: ‘Terrorism in an Age of Quantum Insecurity’
If you missed out on the Q Keynote Lecture during […]...
Sydney University to open the Nanoscience Hub for the quantum technologies of the future
The University of Sydney is set to open its one […]...
The Q3 Symposium: Quantum Matter panel
In February 2016, Q participants gathered to hear about the […]...
The Q3 Symposium: Quantum Moment panel
The inaugural panel for Q3 began with the observation that, […]...
Spooky action is closer than you think: Jairus Grove discusses quantum insecurity on ABC’s Radio National
Project Q’s co-investigator Dr. Jairus Grove (Center for Futures Studies, […]...
It seems life really does have a vital spark: Quantum mechanics
For centuries philosophers have grappled with the question of what […]...
The Guardian profiles Australian quantum computing research
Yesterday’s Guardian ran a quick profile on Michelle Simmons, director of the UNSW’...
The Way of the Future? Communication Encoded in Singular Photons
Today’s communication is already reliant on light as its workhorse, […]...
Einstein vs. Schrödinger: Collaboration, competition and uncertainty
“Neither Schrödinger nor Einstein liked what they found in the […]...
NSA on Quantum Cryptography: Sooner Rather than Later?
Neal Koblitz and Alfred J. Menezes have just released an […]...
Quantum theory to quantum biology
Professor of Physics Jim Al-Khalili from the University of Surrey presented […]...
Australian quantum security firm wins global award
Australia-based quantum security firm QuintessenceLabs has won a major international […]...
‘The Probable Universe’
The Terminator meets Twin Peaks in this eerie interactive audio-visual installation, […]...
The Politics of Physics
The New York Times recently published this piece that describes implications of […]...
Promising Research in Quantum Gravity
Yesterday, international science journal Nature published a fascinating overview of recent resear...
Re-Remembering War and Peace in Uncertain Times
In Thursday’s Q Lecture, Mckenzie Wark focused on the gaps […]...
Crucial hurdle overcome in quantum computing
A team of Australian engineers have built a quantum logic […]...
Time: Historical, Representational and Relative
Saturday morning’s panel on “Time: Historical, Representational, and Relative” continued [&hel...
Space: States, Subjects, Simulation and a Screening
With Friday’s opening panel on The Space-time of War and […]...
Q2’s First Morning Touches on Memory, Space-Time, and War
As Q2’s attendees assembled to catch a ferry to Q […]...
McKenzie Wark Opens Q2 with Lecture on the Labor Behind Climate Change Science
If one were asked to choose one word to describe […]...
100 Years Later, Q2 Looks to WWI and Quantum Turn
Wars and atoms have, as it were, a conjugated history. […]...
Global Security: Challenge and Opportunity in Change
Each of the Q Symposium’s Global Security panel on Saturday […]...
Q1: Power and Information
Allison Bashford’s presentation for the biosecurity panel mentioned a mid-20th […]...
Q1: Biosecurity from Quarantine to Quantum
After the first day of panels, complex conversations carried over […]...
Geosecurity Panel: Maritime Power, Non-State Security Issues, and Comprehending China
If Friday’s opening Q Effect panel opened the theoretical possibilities […]...
Q Effect Panel: Towards Complementarity
After welcomes and opening remarks set the tone, Friday’s first […]...
Q1: A Ferry Ride, a Welcome and the Q Vision
Friday morning saw of the best minds of a generation […]...
Q Symposium Kicks Off with 7th Annual Michael Hintze Lecture in International Security
After flights spanning continents and oceans and the International Date […]...
IR Enters a Quantum World at the Q Symposium
From the discovery of fission in 1939 to the detonation […]...