How close is quantum computing to threatening existing cryptosystems? Where do we stand on the development of defenses? And what can we do now? The good news is that the kind of quantum computing that could pose a threat is not close to the required scale and that there are viable post-quantum candidates. The bad […]
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Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto is the director of the NTT Research Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab and a professor of Applied Physics & Electrical Engineering, emeritus, at Stanford University. He has led research laboratories focused on quantum optics and quantum information processing for more than 30 years. Dr. Yamamoto’s current research interests are in the areas
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NTT Research works on a lengthy time horizon. Not bounded by quarterly earnings, we can set long-range goals. We tend to broker multi-year agreements with universities that enjoy similar freedom; and in the case of our Medical & Health Informatics (MEI) Lab, we recently announced an agreement with a semi-independent national institution, Japan’s National Cerebral
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Nano-scale bio-sensors, a niche domain in the field of materials science, are poised to play a leading role in advanced health informatics and related futuristic applications, such as bio digital twins. Requirements for these microscopic and (likely) implantable technologies include conductivity, flexibility, non-toxicity, connectivity, economy and precision. Medical device and health strategists are already thinking
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Dr. Jon Nels Peterson joined the NTT Research Medical & Health Informatics (MEI) Lab in November 2020. A biomedical engineer with both academic and medical device industry experience, Dr. Peterson will provide technical expertise and leadership in advancing the bio digital twin development strategy. Most recently, he was principal clinical systems engineer at Micro Systems
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Dr. Kei Karasawa joined NTT Research at its inception and serves as its vice president of strategy. From 2015–2019, he worked with the R&D planning department at NTT, where he built cooperative relationships with NTT operating companies around the world to deploy NTT R&D technology to global markets. He led applied R&D at NTT EAST
Last month’s Neural Information Procession Systems conference (NeurIPS 2020), which took place (virtually) from December 6-12, 2020, was another occasion for Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab Senior Research Scientist Hidenori Tanaka to advance work that he has undertaken with Stanford University colleagues on the dynamics of neural networks. In a previous blog post, we discussed
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When basic research presses against boundaries of existing bodies of knowledge, new multi-disciplinary fields of study and breakthrough applications can arise as a result. That appears to be happening in an area of quantum computing associated with the Coherent Ising Machine (CIM). While it takes an expert to follow this research in detail, business leaders
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Dr. Go Yamamoto is a senior scientist in the NTT Research Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab, where he is a member of the blockchain research group. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Mathematical Sciences and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Tokyo. He joined NTT in 2002 and recently obtained an
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Few people know much about cryptography. What the public learns, from headlines and advertisements that often exploit those headlines, is that existing cryptosystems seem to break fairly often. In his latest article for Forbes, NTT Research President and CEO, Kazuhiro Gomi, points to three counter examples of cybersecurity actually tightening: 1) a breakthrough in “indistinguishability
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Dr. Jess Riedel joined NTT Research as a senior research scientist in the Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab in October 2019. He previously held post-doctoral fellowships at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Waterloo, Ontario and at IBM Research, in Yorktown Heights, NY. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara
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By NTT Staff Our PHI Lab is focused on solving the most difficult computational problems ever conceived. To do so, they are employing a novel computing system called a Coherent Ising Machine (CIM). Three years ago, PHI Lab Director Yoshihisa Yamamoto and seven colleagues introduced the basic concept of the CIM and its quantum feature
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