The EMiT@CIUK 2017 workshop was held at the Manchester Central Convention Complex on the 13th of December 2017 as part of the Computing Insight UK 2017 conference.
The workshop consisted of a morning of talks around two hot topics: novel computing architectures and AI/Machine Learning, followed by an afternoon session providing a technical and hands on introduction to quantum computing via the IBM Research quantum experience platform.
Presentations and workshop material can be downloaded below!
Wednesday 13th December 2017
| Introduction to EMiT and the workshop (09:30-10:00) | ||
| Dr Michael Bane | High End Compute | Introduction to the EMiT series |
| Dr Stephen Longshaw | STFC | Welcome to the EMiT@CIUK Workshop |
| Session 1 – Novel Computing Technologies (10:00-11:00) | ||
| Dr Stefan Filipp | IBM Research | Perspectives on quantum computing with near-term devices |
| Dr Andrew Smith | University of York | A Ball Computer |
| Dr Nicholas Chancellor | Durham University | Local Search: Using the algorithms we already have on quantum annealers |
| Break (11:00-11:30) |
| Session 2: AI & Machine Learning (11:30-12:30) | ||
| Dr Atanas Atanasov | Intel | AI Developments at Intel |
| Dr Oscar Déniz Suárez | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha | The Hardware and Software that will bring Deep Learning Everywhere |
| Dr Edward Pyzer-Knapp | IBM Research | Teaching AI to optimize AI – a (very) brief introduction to Bayesian Optimization |
| Lunch (12:30-13:30) |
| Quantum Computing Workshop (13:30-16:00) | ||
| Dr Marc Ganzhorn | IBM Research | (20 minutes) Introduction to Quantum Computing |
| IBM Research & EMiT Committee | IBM Research & EMiT | (40 minutes) Hands on with Cloud based Quantum Computing (practical session) |
| Break (30 minutes) | ||
| IBM Research & EMiT Committee | IBM Research & EMiT | (60 minutes) Quantum programming (practical session) |
