Frank Leymann, Johanna Barzen (Institute of Architecture of Application
Systems, University of Stuttgart)

Lecture Series: Introduction to Digital Humanities

The establishment of the Digital Humanities as a research field has shown that the use of computers as tools, but also the use of methods and techniques from computer science, can contribute enormously to research done in the Humanities. As quantum computers are becoming real and providers are offering access to them via the cloud the question occurs: Why not use the potential of this new technology to address existing or entirely new questions in the Digital Humanities? Therefore, questions like: Which applications are fruitful? Which algorithms can already be used today? or: Which quantum computing knowledge is required? needs to be investigated.

In this talk, we will give an introduction to the basic concepts and phenomena of Quantum Computing, followed by our first use case in the so-called area of Quantum Humanities. The use case is located in the field of quantum machine learning and explores how Quantum Computing can be used to better understand how costumes are used to communicate in movies.