量子コンピュータ

こういった中の1人に日本人研究者も選ばれているというのは誇らしいな、と思って
見ていたら、研究テーマは量子コンピュータらしい。

量子コンピュータ、、、、完成したら実現できるだろうこと・やろうとしていることというのは
以前調べていたときにある程度理解できたのだが、
どうも本当にそんなものができあがるのか、イメージが沸かない。

量子暗号化とかもそう。

量子力学、、、ちょっと興味深い。



http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/080814xa.html
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HP Selects 41 Professors for Innovation Research Awards
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 14, 2008
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HP today announced the 41 professors it has selected to receive its HP Labs Innovation Research Awards, which fund strategic joint research projects between academic research institutions worldwide and HP Labs, the company’s central research arm.

As part of a newly announced open and competitive process that reviewed more than 450 proposals from 200 universities in 28 countries spanning the globe, HP selected 41 projects at 34 institutions. Selected professors represent U.S. institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, while selected international institutions include Germany’s Technische Universitaet Muenchen, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Indian Institutes of Technology and China’s Tsinghua University.

“Today, no one has locked up the really good ideas. To stay competitive, the technology industry has to have internal and external innovation paths,” said Henry Chesbrough, author of three books on open innovation and executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley. “Industry-academia collaboration is an open innovation example that can provide competitive advantage to companies that know how to leverage the enormous creative potential of university researchers.”

Awardees will work with HP Labs researchers on speculative and potentially game-changing research, the results of which are expected to generate the next set of technology breakthroughs in the areas of information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability.

HP will work with the world’s leading academic researchers and project topics cover a wide range of challenging technical problems, including nano-photonic quantum systems research (High-Speed Hybrid Silicon Lasers), social computing and how it relates to the diffusion of knowledge (Diffusion of Good Ideas Among Mega-Regions), and the development of sustainable IT ecosystems (Modeling Tools for Data Center Energy Performance and Sustainability).

“Deepening HP Labs’ strategic collaboration with those in academia, government and the commercial sector ensures HP’s research endeavors result in high-impact research that meets the scientific and business objectives of HP and its partners,” said Prith Banerjee, senior vice president, Research, HP, and director, HP Labs. “The professors’ deep technical expertise, HP Labs researchers’ domain and industry knowledge, and governments’ abilities to fund innovative research will come together to address the world’s most complex IT challenges.”

HP Labs Innovation Research Awards provide project funding of up to $100,000 for one year to each academic institution and are renewable for a total of three years based on research progress and HP business requirements. These awards include support for one graduate student researcher, who is also eligible to apply to the HP Labs internship program. The next request for proposals is planned for spring 2009.

2008 HP Labs Innovation research program winners by region:

Americas

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Dr. Greg Ganger – USA
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Ga.), Dr. Karsten Schwan and Dr. Biing Hwang Juang – USA (two awards)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.), Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson and Dr. Thomas W. Malone – USA (two awards)
Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.), Dr. Elias I. Franses – USA
Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, N.Y.), Dr. Frank Cost – USA
Stanford University (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dr. Brian A. Wandell and Dr. Hideo Mabuchi – USA (two awards)
State University of New York at Buffalo, Dr. Venu Govindaraju – USA
University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy and Dr. Van P. Carey – USA (two awards)
University of California, Davis, Dr. Kwan-Liu Ma – USA
University of California, San Diego, Dr. Amin Vahdat – USA
University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. John Bowers – USA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Narendra Ahuja – USA
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dr. Kang G. Shin and Dr. Stephane Lafortune – USA (two awards)
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, Calif.), Dr. Alan E. Willner – USA
University of Toronto, Dr. Ming Hu – Canada
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Mikko H. Lipasti – USA

Asia Pacific

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Dr. Soumen Chakrabarti – India
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Dr. Anurag Mittal – India
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Dr. Anwitaman Datta – Singapore
National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo), Dr. Kae Nemoto – Japan
Peking University, Dr. Xiaoming Li – China
Tsinghua University, Dr. Jianhua Feng – China

Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Bilkent University (Ankara), Dr. Alper Sen – Turkey
Konstanz University, Dr. Essor Daniel A. Keim – Germany
Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Dr. Maxim Grinev – Russia
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa), Dr. Ron Y. Pinter – Israel
Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Dr. Alfons Kemper – Germany
Universidade do Minho (Braga), Dr. Antonio Luis Pinto Ferreira De Sousa – Portugal
University of Bath, Dr. John Philip Collomosse and Dr. Guy McCusker – England (two awards)
University of Bristol, Dr. Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas and Dr. Robert M. Richardson – England (two awards)
University of Edinburgh, Dr. Alan Bundy – Scotland
University of Leeds, Dr. Ming Ronnier Luo – England
University of Saint-Petersburg, Dr. Boris Novikov – Russia
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dr. Frank Van Harmelen – Netherlands

More information about the awards and selected proposals is available at www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp.



http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20080818/156459/

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HP社が日本人を含む41人の大学教授に共同研究資金を提供2008/08/18 01:42
　具体的には，米Hewlett-Packard Co.が全世界の41人の大学教授に対して「HP Labs Innovation Research　Awards」と呼ぶ共同研究資金を拠出すると発表した（発表資料）。それぞれの教授に対して，特定のテーマについてHP社傘下の研究開発部門HP Labsとの共同研究開発を行う目的で1年間に10万米ドルまでの金額を与える。「この41人を選ぶために，我々は世界28カ国に存在する200以上の大学から寄せられた400以上の提案を12週間かけて検討した」（同社，HP Labs，Open Innovation Office，DirectorのRich Friedrich氏）という。

　41人の教授の中には，国立情報学研究所の根本 香絵氏も含まれる。今回選ばれた同氏の研究は量子コンピューティングに関連する「Distributed Quantum Information Processing and Hybrid Quantum Devices」という題名の研究である。「量子コンピューティングのこれまでの研究を見ると，現実的な成果を出している技術は少なかった。根本氏の研究は，真の量子コンピューティング・アプリケーションを実現できる可能性がある。この研究に資金を提供できることに私も喜んでいる」（HP社のFriedrich氏）。根本氏は英ブリストル市や米パルアルト市にいるHP社の研究者と共同で研究を進めるという。

　このほか，米Rochester Institute of Technologyの教授を務めるFrank Cost氏が進める「An automated framework for collecting, tagging, transforming, and publishing web repository content to unified print layouts」と呼ばれる研究も，今回HP社から資金提供を受ける研究テーマの一つである。この研究テーマはブログなどのオンライン媒体を，本や雑誌，電子ブックなどの媒体に変える技術という。

　知的財産権の扱いについては，共同研究を始める前にHP社と大学が保有する知的財産権はそのまま残す。共同で開発した知的財産権はHP社と大学が共同で保有することになる。