How we learned to program with atoms in 24 hours flat

QuEra Computing, in collaboration with AWS, sponsored iQuHack 2023, the first-ever public hackathon with a neutral-atom quantum computer. Competing teams used QuEra's Aquila quantum processor on Amazon Braket to develop innovative solutions to the maximum independent set problem over a 24-hour period, with a group from Yale University, known as the "5-headed cat," winning the QuEra challenge first prize.