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⚡ 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄: Jane Goodall Institute, FormationQ Launch Quantum Computing Research Partnership - $IonQ(IONQ.US)

👉 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:

➤ 𝐉𝐆𝐈 𝐔𝐒𝐀 and 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐐 launch a two-year research partnership.

➤ Program will use 𝐈𝐨𝐧𝐐's trapped-ion quantum computing platform.

➤ Study explores why 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐞𝐬 and 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐬 display contrasting intergroup behavior.

➤ Research marks a 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭-𝐨𝐟-𝐢𝐭𝐬-𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 quantum application in behavioral ecology.

➤ Project combines 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦-𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 modeling with classical computing.

➤ 𝐁𝟑𝐆𝐄𝐓 model will simulate primate behavior across artificial landscapes.

➤ Researchers will study how 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 influences cooperation and conflict.

➤ Findings aim to improve 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 strategies and habitat protection.

➤ Partnership launched on 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲, marking 66 years since Jane Goodall's Gombe research.

👉 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:

𝐃𝐫. 𝐋𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐚, Vice President of Conservation Science at the Jane Goodall Institute and Principal Investigator:

"Dr. Jane Goodall spent over 65 years building the most comprehensive ongoing record of wild chimpanzees. That legacy of patient, rigorous observation is now meeting the frontier of quantum science. Understanding the ecological conditions that drive how chimpanzees interact with their habitats and neighbors is also relevant to understanding why populations thrive or decline, and where conservation action will matter most.

"This partnership embodies exactly what the Jane Goodall Institute's scientific work stands for: strategically bringing the most powerful technology tools available to bear on the questions that matter most for chimpanzees, for conservation, and for our understanding of what it means to be human. This programme is one of the last that Jane and I worked on together. Launching it today, on the 66th anniversary of her first day at Gombe, is deeply meaningful to me."

𝐍𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, Founder and CEO of FormationQ:

"This programme starts with a profound scientific question, decades of extraordinary field research and a sophisticated model built to understand a deeply complex natural system. FormationQ's role in this partnership is to bring those elements together with IonQ's frontier quantum computing capabilities and build a research programme around a question that has never before been approached in this way.

"We believe the real promise of quantum will emerge when world-leading domain expertise, data and models are connected to the technology in ways that allow researchers to ask new questions. There could be few more meaningful places to begin than with Jane Goodall's extraordinary scientific legacy and what it can still teach us about nature, conservation and ourselves."