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In 2025, IBM researchers released a paper titled “Tour de gross” that proposed a modular fault-tolerant architecture for these devices. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these devices for which IBM introduced a cloud platform in 2016. These devices achieve quadratic speedup over their classical counterparts through Grover’s algorithm.
ANSWER: quantum computers [or quantum processors; accept quantum processing units or QPUs]
[10h] In 2017, IBM released this open-source Python-based software for quantum programming. Users of this software construct quantum circuits and then execute on an IBM superconducting quantum computer.
ANSWER: Qiskit (“KISS-kit”) [or Quantum Information Software Kit]
[10m] One Qiskit add-on implements networks of these objects to study many-body quantum systems. Google developed a deep learning library named for these objects.
ANSWER: tensors [accept TensorFlow]
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BrownGeorgetown100010E
CambridgeVanderbilt1001020EM
Chicago ANYU A1001020EM
Columbia AToronto A10101030EHM
Columbia BBruin10101030EHM
CornellSwarthmore100010E
Georgia Tech BRutgers10101030EHM
Illinois BPurdue1001020EM
Johns HopkinsGeorgia Tech A100010E
MITToronto B1001020EM
Maryland AHarvard10101030EHM
MichiganPenn State100010E
NYU BOhio State1010020EH
North CarolinaNorthwestern B100010E
PittsburghTexas100010E
Stanford BVirginia1010020EH
UC Berkeley BUC Berkeley A10101030EHM
UCFMaryland B100010E
UCLAGeorgia Tech C10101030EHM
Virginia TechNorthwestern A100010E
WashUIllinois A100010E
WaterlooChicago B1001020EM

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