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) |