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AuthorDate: Fri Jan 24 14:20:57 2025 -0800

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+title: Mahout at FOSDEM: "Introducing Qumat"
+date:   2025-01-24 00:00:00 -0800
+category: news
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+## FOSDEM 2025, ULB Solbosch Campus
+## Feb 2nd, Brussels, Belgium
+[Introducing Qumat! (An Apache Mahout Joint)](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5298-introducing-qumat-an-apache-mahout-joint-)
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+There seem to be as many quantum computing languages as there are quantum computers. IBM’s qiskit attempts to address this by providing interfaces to multiple backends, but do we really want a vendor owning the coding ecosystem? What could go wrong? Lulz. Apache Mahout’s Qumat project allows users to write their circuits once and then run the same code on multiple vendors. In this talk we’ll discuss how Apache Mahout’s Samsara project introduced the idea of avoiding vendor lock-in by all [...]
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+### Presented by
+* Trevor Grant
+* Andrew Musselman