ICAM was founded in December 1998 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory with support from the University of California by experimental condensed matter physicist Zack Fisk and theoretical physicist David Pines, receiving support from the University of California Office of the Present, ICAM member branches all over the world, the US National Science Foundation from 2003-2013, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for QuantEmX Fellows from 2015–present.
ICAM was founded in December 1998 at Los Alamos National Laboratory with the assistance of the University of California, supported by Zack Fisk and David Pines. ICAM's global branches received backing from the US National Science Foundation from 2003-2013 and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for QuantEmX Fellows from 2015 to present.