IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Emergent Technologies Technical Committee

Task Force on Quantum Computing

Historically, classical computer concepts and underlying technologies have been invented by mathematicians and physicists rather than engineers. It was engineers, however, who took basic concepts and ideas and created the practical powerful and inexpensive computers of today. We believe that the same will happen in case of quantum computing. Currently there are several research groups and conferences in the field of quantum computing, quantum circuits and quantum information that are addressed to physicists, mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists. Although quantum computing is still in its nascent days, there have been experiments that successfully perform quantum computation on a small number of qubits. There is a growing group of researchers with engineering background who pursue active research in the area of what will become quantum computer engineering and there are universities who already teach "quantum engineers".

The Quantum Computing Task Force was established by the Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). The main purpose of the ETTC is to "track, identify, promote, and nurture new and emergent approaches, concepts, and areas" (such as Quantum Computing) "in tangible ways such as sponsorship of conferences, symposia, and educational activities".

Task Force Committee

Xiaoyu Song, Portland State University, USA (Chair)
William N. N. Hung, Synopsys, USA (Vice Chair)
Marek Perkowski, Portland State University, USA
Guowu Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Organized or Related Events

IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Special Session on Evolutionary Techniques in Nanotechnology and Quantum Computing, 2008
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Special Session on Quantum Computing, 2006

Related Publications by Task Force Members

Journal Publications

Guowu Yang, Xiaoyu Song, William N. N. Hung, Marek Perkowski, and Chang-Jun Seo, "Synthesis of Reversible Circuits with Minimal Costs", Calcolo, Accepted, 2007
Guowu Yang, Xiaoyu Song, Marek Perkowski, William N. N. Hung, and Chang-Jun Seo, "Minimal Universal Library for nxn Reversible Circuits", Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Accepted, 2007
Guowu Yang, Xiaoyu Song, William N. N. Hung, and Marek A. Perkowski, "Bi-directional Synthesis of 4-bit Reversible Circuits", The Computer Journal, Vol. 51, No. 2, March 2008, pp. 207-215.
Guowu Yang, Xiaoyu Song, Marek A. Perkowski, William N. N. Hung, Jacob Biamonte and Zhiwei Tang, "Four-level realization of 3-qubit reversible functions", IET Computers and Digital Techniques, Vol. 1, No. 4, July 2007, pp. 382-388.
William N. N. Hung et al, "Optimal Synthesis of Multiple Output Boolean Functions using a Set of Quantum Gates by Symbolic Reachability Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 25, No. 9, September 2006, pp. 1652-1663.
Guowu Yang, William N. N. Hung et al, "Majority-Based Reversible Logic Gates", Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 334, No. 1-3, April 2005, pp. 259-274.

Conference Publications

Guowu Yang, Fei Xie, Xiaoyu Song, William N. N. Hung, and Marek Perkowski, "A Constructive Algorithm for Reversible Logic Synthesis", IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), July 2006.
Guowu Yang, Xiaoyu Song, William N. N. Hung, Fei Xie and Marek Perkowski, "Group Theory Based Synthesis of Binary Reversible Circuits", Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC06), May 2006.
Guowu Yang, Xiaoyu Song, William N. N. Hung, and Marek Perkowski, "Bi-direction Synthesis for Reversible Circuits", IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Tempa, Florida, May 2005.
Guowu Yang, Xiaoyu Song, William N. N. Hung, and Marek Perkowski, "On Realization of 3-qubit Reversible Circuits with the minimum number of non-linear gates", 7th International Symposium on Representations and Methodology of Future Computing Technologies (RM2005), Tokyo, Japan, September 2005.
Guowu Yang, Xiaoyu Song, Marek Perkowski, and William N. N. Hung, "Minimal Universal Library for nxn Reversible Circuits", 7th International Symposium on Representations and Methodology of Future Comp uting Technologies (RM2005), Tokyo, Japan, September 2005.
Guowu Yang, William N. N. Hung, Xiaoyu Song and Marek Perkowski, "Exact Synthesis of 3-qubit Quantum Circuits from Non-binary Quantum Gates Using Multiple-Valued Logic", IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Munich, Germany, March 2005.
Guowu Yang, Xiaoyu Song, William N. N. Hung and Marek Perkowski, "Fast Synthesis of Exact Minimal Reversible Circuits using Group Theory", IEEE/ACM Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), January 2005.
William N. N. Hung, Xiaoyu Song, Guowu Yang, Jin Yang and Marek Perkowski, "Quantum Logic Synthesis by Symbolic Reachability Analysis", 41st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Diego, California, June 2004.
Guowu Yang, William N. N. Hung, Xiaoyu Song and Marek Perkowski, "Majority-Based Reversible Logic Gate", 6th International Symposium on Representations and Methodology of Future Computing Technologies (RM2003), Trier, Germany, March 2003.

E-mail Contact: william_hung@alumni.utexas.net
Last Modified: May 24, 2008

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Emergent Technologies Technical Committee