MIT graduate student Riyam Al-Msari and alumna Francisco Vasconcelos are recipients of the 2024 P.D. Soros Fellowships for New Americans. The fellowship provides funding for graduate studies to immigrants and the children of immigrants.
The practicality of quantum computing hangs on the integrity of the quantum bit, or qubit. Qubits, the logic elements of quantum computers, are coherent two-level systems that represent quantum information. Each qubit has the strange ability to be in a quantum superposition, carrying aspects of both states simultaneously, enabling a quantum version of parallel computation.…