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Theoretical work on quantum computing (QC) is advancing in many ways. Meanwhile, industries are enlisting existing QC technology to address specific near-term problems. Over the past few years, for instance, the automotive industry has been tapping QC companies for help in optimizing electric vehicle (EV) battery chemistry. Companies such as VW, Daimler-Benz, Toyota and Hyundai […]

This month, NTT Research made its debut on television with two commercials exploring the value of foundational research as a cornerstone of NTT’s innovation mission. In “Viral,” we tell the story of how decades of basic research into respiratory viruses enabled the rapid development of a vaccine against the coronavirus—and posits that today’s basic research

NTT Research President and CEO Kazuhiro Gomi and Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab Research Scientists Logan Wright and Tatsuhiro Onodera discussed physical neural networks on July 19 during the VentureBeat Transform 2022 event held in San Francisco. The innovative research of Drs. Wright and Onodera and colleagues at Cornell University, published earlier this year in

By Kazuhiro Gomi, President and CEO, NTT Research, Inc.  What an exciting and productive three years it has been! NTT Research was formally launched in a grand opening ceremony on July 8, 2019; and here we are, with more than twice as many employees, in a fantastic new facility, and with tremendous momentum. Let me

A recent paper co-authored by NTT Research Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab Senior Scientist Mark Zhandry provides a new approach to verifying quantum advantage or proving quantumness. Discussed by Dr. Zhandry in a workshop at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing on June 13, the paper was described as a “breakthrough” by

Marc Jankowski joined NTT Research as a research scientist in 2020. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and explores the intersection of nonlinear dynamics with optical systems, particularly nanophotonic devices. Dr. Jankowski’s work with the NTT Research PHI Lab addresses such questions as: What are the ultimate limits, in terms of

Dr. Al Emondi, an experienced organizational and technology leader, joined NTT Research in March 2022 as Head of Partner Strategy. In that role, Dr. Emondi became part of the NTT Research leadership advisory team, with responsibilities that include growth and research partner opportunities, strategic project and program support, partner enablement and value, and research investments.

On top of the many practical questions about how to deploy artificial intelligence (AI), a new set of concerns have arisen about its external costs and energy efficiency. The problem is that AI, especially in its machine learning (ML) and deep neural network varieties, is quickly becoming environmentally unfriendly. Computer science practitioners are looking for