NIST Works To Bring More Everyday Understanding To Quantum Science
Nextgov/FCW, Monday, May 19th, 2025
The agency is celebrating 2025 being designated as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology with an educational campaign.
Quantum science, and especially its most popular offshoot, quantum computing, have come a long way in a fairly short period of time. Back when Nextgov/FCW first started reporting on quantum computing advances in government, a lot of people would write in and ask what quantum computing actually was, and quite a few articles and columns at the time attempted to explain how it all worked. There was even some degree of skepticism about whether a functioning quantum computer could actually ever be created