A new initiative is bringing business and academia together to build up Ireland’s quantum computing power, but will the technology truly break out of the lab

Dr Andrew Mitchell is director of C-QuEST, University College Dublin’s centre for quantum computing research

C-QueST has been created in a bid to make the university a leader in quantum research and support spin-out businesses in the field

The next revolution in computing promises to change fundamental concepts that have been with us since the days of punched cards. What will quantum computing mean for us as it moves from research to reality