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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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So You Want to Learn About Quantum Computing?
“Students will learn by inhabiting an alternate history where Alan Turing and Richard Feynman meet during World War II and must invent quantum computers to defeat Nazi Germany. As a final project, they will get to program a D-Wave One machine and … Continue reading
Posted in Quantum Computing, Quantum Mechanics, Uncategorized
Tagged CS191x, EdX, Umesh Vazirani
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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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Physics and Math – a Complicated Love Affair
Usually I restrict myself to physics on this blog. Not because I don’t love and adore pure math, but mostly because news from this field leaves most readers in about the same state as captured in this comic. Take the recent … Continue reading
Posted in Popular Science, Quantum Computing
Tagged linear equation solving, mathematics, prasad raghavendra
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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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What difference a few months can make. When writing in June about how Quantum Computing can be leveraged to execute and speed up Google’s Page rank algorithm wavewatching.net received a zero for this metric. After a couple of my posts have been picked … Continue reading
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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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