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Septimana Mirabilis – Major Quantum Information Technology Breakthroughs
Update 3: Congratulations to D-Wave for their recent sale of the D-Wave Two machine to the non-profit Space Research Association – to be used collaboratively by Google and NASA. (h/t Geordie Rose) Update 2: Scott Aaronson finally weighs in, and as Robert Tucci predicted in … Continue reading
Posted in D-Wave, Quantum Computing, Quantum Cryptography
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Stretching Quantum Computing Credulity
Update: Corrected text (h/t Geordie) My interest in D-Wave prompted me to start this blog, and it is no secret that I expect the company to deliver products that will have a significant impact on the IT market. Yet, to this day, … Continue reading
The Dark Horse of Quantum Computing
Updated below. Recently, Science magazine prominently featured Quantum Information Processing on their cover: The periodical has a great track record in publishing on QIS, and this is the main reason why I subscribe to it. Unfortunatelly, reading this issue, … Continue reading
Posted in D-Wave, Quantum Computing
Tagged Jelena Stajic, Science Journal, Science Magazine
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Quantum Computing Hype Cycle and a Bet of my Own
The year 2013 started turbulent for the quantum computing field with a valiant effort by long time skeptic and distinguished experimentalist Michel I. Dyakonov to relegate it to the status of a pathological science akin to cold fusion (he does not use the … Continue reading
Big Bad Quantum Computer Revisited
A recent DefenseNews article again put Shor’s algorithm front and center when writing about Quantum Computing. Yet, there is so much more to this field, and with Lockheed Martin working with D-Wave one would expect this to be an open … Continue reading
Posted in D-Wave, Popular Science, Quantum Computing
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Quantum Computing Taxonomy
Quantum computers are not created equal. In this, they also differ drastically from their common classical counterparts. Since analog computers went the way of the dodo, our current digital devices can all be modeled as Turing machines. This means that from … Continue reading
Posted in D-Wave, Quantum Computing
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If Quantum Computing Makes a Splash and Nobody is Listening …
“If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” is a well known metaphysical toy question. What is less known is its business corollary: If a start-up makes a splash, … Continue reading
Posted in D-Wave, Quantum Computing
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Explaining Quantum Computing – Blogroll Memory Hole Rescue
So what is quantum computing? This is the most dreaded question for anybody involved with this field if posed by a friend or relative without a physics background. When I am too tired or busy to make an honest effort, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll Rescue, D-Wave, Quantum Computing
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Quantum Computing – So what is it good for? – Updated below
If anybody in the wider IT community has heard about Quantum Computing, it’s usually in the context of how it may obliterate our current industry standard encryption (e.g. RSA). Probably Peter Shore didn’t realize that he was about to define the … Continue reading
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Quantum Computing – A Matter of Life and Death
In terms of commercial use cases, I have looked at corporate IT, as well as how a quantum computer will fit in with the evolving cloud computing infrastructure. However, where QC will make the most difference -as in, a difference … Continue reading
Posted in D-Wave, Popular Science, Quantum Computing
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