The Airbus quantum computing challenge
The first-ever commercial passenger flight took off on January 1, 1914, from St. Petersburg to Tampa. It's now more than a century since that happened, but innovation in aviation and airlines has largely plateaued, if not stagnated. Apart from the more recent initiatives from Elon Musk, Sir Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos, that are focused on interstellar travel, we have hardly seen any major upgrades to air travel.
The airline industry has been mostly a loss-making endeavor, and just getting the business model right is hard enough for airline companies. Any research and development initiatives are few and far between in this industry.
This status quo might be changing, as Airbus is pioneering innovation efforts for the aviation industry. Their focus on quantum computing initiatives is especially interesting. They have set up a quantum computing application center in Newport, Wales. They have partnered with the Welsh government...
