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As with Lego, it seems Minecraft’s possibilities are limited only by the imagination, and also like Lego, the game has the potential to act as a powerful educational tool. The team at Google’s Quantum AI Lab, which explores the possibilities of quantum computing, put their heads together and figured out that the next generation of computer scientists could discover their talents in none other than Mojang’s vast, open, voxel-based world.
Together with MinecraftEdu, a group that partners with Mojang to bring Minecraft to schools, and scientists at California Institute of Technology’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Quantum AI Lab has built a Minecraft mod called qCraft that simulates quantum behaviors in the game.
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