Rachel Johnson

WISER will collaborate with Valley Vision, Iff Technologies, and California education and industry partners to develop quantum curriculum aligned with emerging workforce needs. The Washington Institute for STEM, Entrepreneurship and Research (WISER) has joined Quantum Capital, a $750,000 workforce development initiative led by Valley Vision and supported through California's Workforce Accelerator Fund. The project brings together employers, investors, colleges, universities, and workforce...

By: Elijah Kim, September 2026 This year OpenAI published a 166-page paper claiming its internal AI system solved a version of the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. I spent the weekend reading it, and I keep coming back to it. A bit about where I'm coming from. My background spans in Machine Learning and leading RAG/LangChain projects from Microsoft. Plus with my graduate study in Quantum Computing, where my thesis framed the coordination of AI agent teams as a QUBO problem solved with...

Washington, D.C. and Kaiserslautern, Germany | September 15, 2026 The Washington Institute for STEM, Entrepreneurship and Research (WISER) and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence research centers, are pleased to announce a new strategic collaboration focused on advancing research, education, and workforce development at the intersection of artificial intelligence and quantum computing. The partnership brings...