Opportunity for a motivated graduate student to assist with empirical studies of quantum annealing, using a 512-qubit D-Wave Two machine. Come spend an exciting summer in Arlington, Virginia, USA next to Washington, D.C., working for the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (USC ISI, http://www.isi.edu). ISI is a unit of USC’s Top 10 ranked Viterbi School of Engineering, and has an office in Virginia. The opening is in ISI's Reconfigurable Computing Group.