Quantum optimization

How to optimize your calendar using quantum computing

This has probably happened to everyone, and to some people quite often. You receive a meeting invitation from your manager, but it conflicts with a meeting you already have with a colleague. So you try to move that meeting, but the colleague finds that your new proposal now conflicts with another meeting, meaning one of those meetings would need to move too. Finding an optimal schedule for meetings so that no conflicts remain is a very hard problem. Can a quantum computer help?

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