Eye Spy - May 2018

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EYE SPY INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE 115 2018 47


Advanced Research, said Russia had started
work on the creation of a quantum computer-
based superconductor, with “the technology
that the project aims to create [allowing] our
country to take a decent spot in the race to
create the computer of the future.” He also
referenced the ‘Quantum Arms Race’: “All
leading countries are aiming to be the first to
create such machines.”

Two leading Russian
quantum computing
research institutes -
the Russian
Quantum Centre and
the MISiS National
University of
Science & Technol-
ogy, also announced
the creation of a
joint project known
as Quantum Centre,
which aims at
combining their efforts to create quantum
computers.

Sergey Kiriyenko, head of Rosatom.
Ironically, during his Communist
days, he was known as the ‘little
human computer’. Kiriyenko said he
“recognises the implications of
quantum computers”

Support structure for installation of
the D-Wave Vesuvius processor -
NASA Quantum Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (QuaAIL)

Logo of the All-
Russia Research
Institutes of Auto-
matics (VNIIA)

IBM cyber security specialists engage in a
simulated counter-cyber attack operation

MISiS
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