IBM doubles down on quantum tech with U of I – Crain’s

IBM and U of I’s Grainger College of Engineering at Urbana-Champaign launched a decade-long, $200 million research partnership called IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute in 2021, focused on artificial intelligence, supercomputing and materials research. Since then, IBM has collaborated with U of I to launch the National Quantum Algorithm Center, which will be a tenant at of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago that’s being built at the former US Steel factory site on the Far South Side. IBM plans to build a team of up to 50 researchers in Chicago.

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Fed Up Taxpayer
6 months ago

IBM is using Illinois because they know everyone in the state can be bought.

Irish Patriot
6 months ago

IBM the world’s most stale IT company decides to invest in Illinois. IBM income is mostly derived from maintaining the decades old legacy systems for dying companies that can’t afford to invest in upgraded technology.

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