R+T Park Living Lab: The Buoyant Foundation
At the University of Waterloo’s R+T Park, an innovative project is tackling climate change-induced flooding head-on. Led by Professor Elizabeth…
“The main way we secure the internet today, and most of our information and communication technologies, is using a mathematical tool that will be broken once we have large scale quantum computers,” says Michele Mosca, Deputy Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.
“So this is no longer just a hypothetical problem, it’s a medium-term threat. And the clock is ticking on fixing this catastrophe; preventing this catastrophe.”