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Blueprint to organize a quantum computing workshop

May 2, 2023 May 2, 2023 05/2/23

Fabrice Frachon

For many people, learning a new skill is easiest when it's a shared experience. Quantum computing workshops offer an interactive, structured and co-operative forum to jump start your quantum learning. But how do organize such an event? The Azure Quantum team frequently receives questions on how to organize quantum computing workshops, so ...

Azure Quantum introduces sessions to accelerate your research with variational algorithms

April 24, 2023 Apr 24, 2023 04/24/23

Lucas Enloe

To take full advantage of an Interactive Hybrid architecture, many popular algorithms such as the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) and the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) require tight integration between the cloud provider and the quantum hardware manufacturer. Today, Azure Quantum is introducing ...

Azure Quantum unlocks the next generation of Hybrid Quantum Computing

March 8, 2023 Mar 8, 2023 03/8/23

Fabrice Frachon

Today, Microsoft announced a significant quantum advancement and made our new Integrated Hybrid feature in Azure Quantum available to the public. Quantum computing is inherently hybrid. The key to unlocking impactful, commercial applications at scale will be deep integration between classical computing capabilities including HPC and AI with...

Azure Quantum Winter Learning Opportunities

January 10, 2023 Jan 10, 2023 01/10/23

Matt Zanner (HE/HIM)

Want to pursue your interests in quantum computing? Start today and sign up for great winter learning opportunities with Azure Quantum.

Developing and using Azure Quantum assignments for quantum computing courses

December 20, 2022 Dec 20, 2022 12/20/22

Hal Owens

In this blog post Hal Owens writes about his internship project at Microsoft Quantum - developing quantum programming assignments with Q# and bringing them to the classroom at Purdue.

λ-Q#: Understanding and Evolving the Q# Programming Language

December 15, 2022 Dec 15, 2022 12/15/22

Kartik Singhal

λ-Q# is an idealized version of Q# aimed at providing it a formal language definition, placing the language on a solid mathematical foundation, and enabling further evolution of its design and type system.

Teaching Quantum Computing with Q# and Azure Quantum at Northeastern University

December 2, 2022 Dec 2, 2022 12/2/22

Mariia Mykhailova

This fall I taught "Introduction to quantum computing" at Northeastern University. In this post, I share my experience teaching it and describe the kinds of programming assignments the course offered.

Automate Resource Estimation with QIR

December 1, 2022 Dec 1, 2022 12/1/22

Mathias Soeken

Learn how to automate physical resource estimation jobs using the Azure Quantum Resource Estimator and the Azure Quantum Python library.

Q# Holiday Calendar 2022

November 7, 2022 Nov 7, 2022 11/7/22

Mariia Mykhailova

Q# Holiday Calendar is a yearly blogging event in which every day in December one awesome community member writes a blog post about Q# and/or Azure Quantum. Check out the previous years' blogs and join the 2022 edition!

Quantum Development Kit adopts .NET6 and supports Visual Studio 2022

June 8, 2022 Jun 8, 2022 06/8/22

Ricardo Espinoza

In March we migrated the Quantum Development Kit to .NET 6.0 and added support for Visual Studio 2022. Learn more here in this post!