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January 2019 Issue

Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti, Professor of Information Technology in the A.K.Choudhury School of Information Technology
at the University of Calcutta presented the book on “Centre of Competence on Quantum Computing” to Shri Debashis
Sen, IAS, Addl. Chief Secretary, DITE.

Lighting of the inaugural lamp Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti presenting book to Shri Debashis Sen, IAS

Shri Sen informed about the decision of the Government to propose a Centre of Excellence on Quantum Computing to
be set up with the IT Department of Kolkata University, School of IT which Dr. Chakrabarti is heading along with an
absolutely amazing international team and the Govt. of West Bengal is happy to partner with them to create a Centre
of Excellence on Quantum Computing in Kolkata.

In his key note address Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti explained that the need of quantum computing is not only minimising
size of electronic circuits, but there is tremendous potential in quantum computing if the quantum mechanical
phenomena can be exploited and the algorithms can be mapped to those particular phenomena and utilise those
phenomena to have better execution time compared to the classical.

Shri Shesha S Raghunathan, Q Ambassadors & Leader IBM gave a special address on Quantum Computing and IBM Q.
he said that Quantum Computing may provide a new path to solve some of the hardest or most memory intensive
problems in business and science.

Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti delivering speech Shri Shesha S Raghunathan delivering speech

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