Acceleration of Quantum Sciences & Engineering, & Technology Transfer
In the wake of the Human Genome Project, biologists and medical researchers in hundreds of subdisciplines were confronted by vast quantities of data associated with entirely new experimental technologies. To link the results of rapid advances with traditional life science concerns, a biological metascience was devised. It is based on a suite of evolving controlled vocabularies, called “ontologies,” that describe both traditional and novel data consistently across species and disciplines. The suite also includes ontologies that describe experiments, equipment, settings, and results. The reach of this new biological metascience thereby extended well beyond basic sciences to encompass procurement, construction, engineering, facilities and product life-cycle management. The underlying approach has been standardized as ISO/IEC 21838.
We are now developing a quantum metascience, based on ontologies appropriate to quantum information science and technology (QIST). QIST encompasses mathematics, quantum sciences (both physics and the quantum information sciences), communications, engineering and – increasingly – finance and investment. QIST deploys a wide range of technologies and protocols that are also evolving rapidly and engages aspects of human and institutional infrastructure like those encountered in the genomics era. Development of common terminologies and understandings can both advance progress in QIST and enhance access by customers, suppliers and new entrants to the field.
We solicit interest/engagement in this enterprise from all members of the QIST community.
Objectives
Bridge the large gap between quantum physicists/engineers and the stakeholders/users, as well as other disciplines
Accelerate quantum technology advancement, in the great quantum race. Our aim is to create a resource for quantum subject matter experts and stakeholders/users, who we believe will accelerate quantum science, technology, engineering and application to high value use cases
Make it understandable to all
SME Contributions
We seek volunteers who have some expertise in some area of quantum science or engineering to do small tasks, for the good of the whole and themselves. We believe that small contributions by large numbers of volunteers will evolve a comprehensible, common language and resource, understandable by potential stakeholders/users and across all of the sub-fields of quantum, including: quantum computing, communications, sensing, engineering, quantum research, practice, applications, education, training, quantum programming with the various languages and software engineering methods/tools; hybrid quantum-classical computing, architectures & algorithms, benchmarking & performance metrics/measurement, hardware engineering, architectures/designs, & topologies, and applications including chemistry, physics, biology, optimization techniques and quantum machine learning.
Watch a 7 minute video clip below, from one of the QMI community, in-person and virtual, interactive engagements.
Collaboration
We collaborate with the quantum sciences and engineering community in a) understanding the problems that hinder quantum progress, and b) the quantum metascience approach to solving these problems. We seek to accelerate advancement across Quantum Sciences and Engineering (S&E), and to bridging that large gap between the multiple disciplines which comprise Quantum S&E. This large gap is mainly due to technical language/lingo differences between the various Quantum S&E disciplines, and the language that the potential stakeholders/funders/users of Quantum Technology can understand. We invite you to participate in our quantum metascience Initiative, which we believe will eventually result in many benefits to the Quantum Community at large, including 1) improved access to quantum knowledge, efficient browsing, comprehensive research works retrieval based on precision query/search across the many of Quantum S&E fields, including some of the stakeholders’ application domain use cases, 2) augmentation of quantum subject matter experts’ discovery, insight and invention of quantum devices and software, 3) management of Quantum Research and Development (R&D) portfolios, 4) Quantum advancement strategy, roadmapping and gap analysis, 4) the initiation of Quantum R&D to fill the gaps, and 5) others.
The challenge with the way present day queries are performed relates to the substantial gap of not being able to easily navigate and track what researchers are doing across all of the Quantum S&E disciplines, such that we a) avoid duplication of effort and duplication of funding of identical R&D projects, unless duplication of results is warranted, b) understand the most important gaps in our Quantum R&D portfolio, such that those key gaps are prioritized for new R&D initiatives, c) collaborate with shared, collegial scientific argument on the most important Quantum S&E issues, and d) push breaking Quantum S&E news to the community. The foremost and initial goal of this initiative, a Quantum Ontology, is aimed to be developed for dialog in a common language across the diverse disciplines, by mapping and using the terms/synonyms understood respectively by the various quantum subject matter experts and potential stakeholders/users.
Benefits to volunteers consist of having their input included at the beginning stages of this quantum metascience Initiative. For example, you should join if you are interested in creating a synoptic view of quantum technology, as described above, and/or keeping abreast of it as it evolves. We get together at conferences and symposia to discuss opportunities and recruit volunteers for contributing their expertise in fragments of a Quantum Ontology that is currently underway.
GLOSSARY
Physics Ontology
Study of nature & properties of the world; the knowledge of reality as applied to physics
Physics Epistemology
The theory of knowledge, as applied to physics, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope; the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.
Ontology
The core of metascience; provides common language for data integration, precision query, etc.
Mathematical Physics
The development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics; mathematical formulation of physical theories
Metascience of Physics
Use of scientific methodology to study science itself, in this case physics; goals include increasing quality of scientific research, while reducing inefficiency seeks here a bird’s eye view of science: Quantum (Q) physics, Q mechanics, Q computing, Q communications, Q sensing, Electrodynamics…