International Business Machines Corporation

Jill Sherman

Joseph Anthony Russo

Jonathan Ralph

Christopher P Wilczak

Joshua Totte

Megan Arthur

Erin McPhail

Jennifer Anne Janechek

A quantum computing interface system is provided. The system presents a classical computing user interface (UI) element to represent a classical computing domain. An altered appearance of the classical computing UI element indicates a classical domain event occurring in the classical computing domain. The system presents a quantum computing UI element to represent a quantum computing domain. An altered appearance of the quantum computing UI element indicates a quantum domain event occurring in the quantum computing domain. The system presents a data connection UI element to represent a data connection between the classical computing domain and the quantum computing domain. An altered appearance of the data connection UI element indicates a data flow event related to data transition between the classical computing domain and the quantum computing domain.

Visual presentation of quantum-classical interface in a user experience

A recommender system and method to facilitate non-biasing search queries, social media feeds, and other platforms in which a user searches, scrolls, and engages with information and ideas so that a user can explore ideas outside of, or even contrary to, the ones with which they are aligned. Through a computer-implemented 'curiosity halo' recommendation engine and method, users are made aware of the existence of other notions centered around or connected to a topic. The users could also engage to be directed to adjacent notions and “lines of flight” around the topic, thereby broadening their perspective and strengthening their ability to think “outside the box”—or bubble. By adjusting a threshold based on curiosity level and tolerance for divergent thinking, the boundaries of the curiosity halo are continually redrawn in real time so that users can dynamically uncover topics and ideas outside of their day-to-day experience.

Inspiring divergent thinking and creativity via curiosity halo

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Northfield, IL, United States of America

Jill Sherman