IBM Corp. is looking to make enterprise workloads deployed on its public cloud resistant to tomorrow’s encryption-breaking quantum computers.
As a first step to that end, the company today introduced “quantum-safe cryptography” capabilities for three services in IBM Cloud: Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, Cloud Kubernetes Service and Key Protect. Customers using the services can now secure data with an encryption algorithm that will have a better chance of withstanding future quantum attacks, according to the company. Read More
Daily Archives: December 1, 2020
AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
Proteins are essential to life, supporting practically all its functions. They are large complex molecules, made up of chains of amino acids, and what a protein does largely depends on its unique 3D structure. Figuring out what shapes proteins fold into is known as the “protein folding problem”, and has stood as a grand challenge in biology for the past 50 years. In a major scientific advance, the latest version of our AI system AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to this grand challenge by the organisers of the biennial Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP). This breakthrough demonstrates the impact AI can have on scientific discovery and its potential to dramatically accelerate progress in some of the most fundamental fields that explain and shape our world. Read More
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