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-ARTIQ (Advanced Real-Time Infrastructure for Quantum physics) is an open source
-control system for laser-cooled trapped ion experiments. It is being developed for
-the Ion Storage Group at NIST its applicability reaches beyond ion trapping.
+ARTIQ (Advanced Real-Time Infrastructure for Quantum physics) is a
+next-generation control system for quantum information experiments. It is
+being developed in partnership with the Ion Storage Group at NIST, and its
+applicability reaches beyond ion trapping.
 
 The system features a high-level programming language that helps describing
 complex experiments, which is compiled and executed on dedicated hardware with