The competition, designed to encourage innovation and creativity in the field, will award prizes and international recognition to the world's leading quantum software developers
The start-up company classiq Tel-Aviv, a world leader in software development for quantum computers, announced today the first international competition of its kind - Classiq Coding Competition – to develop software for quantum computers. The company will award prizes to developers who develop the most efficient quantum circuits that will help solve real problems the world is facing. Quantum computers currently have limited resources and therefore it is critical to develop compact and optimal solutions that will make the most of these resources.
Classiq was founded in 2020 by Nir Minrabi, who serves as the company's CEO, Amir Noah, VP of Product, and Dr. Yehuda Noah, the chief technologist. The company, which employs the world's leading development team in the field of quantum software, employs over 40 people in Tel Aviv and the USA. The team consists of researchers with advanced degrees from leading universities in Israel and the world, including ten Talpiot graduates and senior software engineers. Classic, which plans to double its development team in the coming year, has raised $51 million in the two years since its inception, including a $36 million B round that was recently joined by strategic investors HSBC, NTT Finance, and Neva SGR from the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group.
"Building efficient algorithms for quantum computers combines engineering and art. The competition is a call to the entire community of software developers for quantum computers to demonstrate their knowledge and prove that computers of this type can lead humanity to new heights," said Nir Minrabi, co-founder and CEO of Classiq.
The competition will include four problems that require solutions and the winners will receive 17 cash prizes. In some problems, the winners will be those who build a working quantum circuit with the smallest number of double qubit gates, while others will strive to minimize the depth of the electrical circuit. The first place winners in solving the 4 problems will each receive $3,000 while the second and third place winners in each problem will receive $1,500 and $500 respectively. Classiq will also award several prizes worth $1,000 to the creators of the most innovative solutions as well as the most promising young participants under the age of 18. The profiles of the first place winners will be published on the leading website of the quantum world The Quantum Insider .
The jury for the competition includes notable figures from the worlds of quantum computing: Nir Minrabi, co-founder and CEO of Classiq, Josiah Beauregard, High Performance Computing and Quantum Computing, Amazon AWS, Dr. Sebastian Senge, Accenture's Quantum Computing Incubator Europe, Bob Sorensen , principal quantum computing analyst at Hyperion Research, and Ross Payne, director of Corporate Fuel Partners.
"It's surprising to discover what can be achieved using compact and efficient electrical circuits," Minerbi explains. "The computer installed in the Apollo 11 spacecraft brought man to the moon using only 72 kilobytes of ROM memory. Quantum computing has begun and the need to build elegant and efficient algorithms will continue in the coming years. Organizations that succeed in adapting available computers to solve larger problems will sooner enjoy the benefits inherent in quantum computing. The competition will encourage among the participants the creativity and ingenuity required for this to happen and illuminate the art of the possible in creating compact and efficient circuits."
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