High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Institute for Quantum Computing, or IQC, located in Waterloo, Ontario, is an affiliate scientific research institute of the University of Waterloo with a multidisciplinary approach to the field of quantum information processing. IQC was founded in 2002. It is currently located in the Research Advancement Centre at the University of Waterloo and is in the proccess of moving to Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre.