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Happy Birthday to Beatrice Worsley, a Canadian computer scientist who was awarded the first Ph.D. in what would become the field of computer science in 1954 for her thesis with the title "Serial Programming for Real and Idealised Digital Calculating Machines".

Beatrice Worsley - Wikipedia Beatrice Helen Worsley (18 October 1921 – 8 May 1972) was a Canadian computer scientist who was the first female computer scientist in Canada. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge with Maurice Wilkes as adviser, the first Ph.D. granted in what would today be known as comp...

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Did Google achieve Quantum Supremacy 3 years ago? At the time, yes, but recently a team of researchers in China was able to accomplish the same task Sycamore (Google's quantum computer) did with classical computation in a similar timeframe. Still, the race is on!

Ordinary computers can beat Google’s quantum computer after all Superfast algorithm put crimp in 2019 claim that Google’s machine had achieved “quantum supremacy”