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By: oberleit

Has anyone actually seen the machine at the other end of the remote interface? Heh..

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By: bugmuncher

Back in 1994 or so, a friend of mine was trying to tell me that the next big thing was trinary memory...

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By: starkeffect

I went to school (at UC-Berkeley) with one of the board members, Gene Dantsker, who got his degree under John Clarke, an expert on SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference devices), which form the...

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By: polyglot

They're demoing it to a credulous public and performing the calculations remotely. "No really, there is a quantum computer at the other end of this cable, we promise!". I don't believe it for a second.

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By: seawallrunner

5) I've never heard of these guys before. they have been toiling away in vancouver for years. I attended a presentation by Geordie Rose about the technology back in 2002 when he presented to NewMIC....

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By: mr_crash_davis

"This will only be true and actual when Apple does it. Product names, anyone? My bet's on iQube." iDunno.

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By: Rumple

thanks mr_roboto. My understanding though is that a patent can be pretty vague: "a novel way to wire the doohickies together while maintaining suspension in substances rich in silcon and myrrh"....

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By: mr_roboto

Which is not to say that I think this is phony; I'm in absolutely no position to judge that. It just all very strange.

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By: mr_roboto

Rumplewrites"Would they publish if it meant they lost their head start of unique intellectual property? Publishing really matters to academics, and I understand it can be important for credibility, but...

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By: Rumple

Would they publish if it meant they lost their head start of unique intellectual property? Publishing really matters to academics, and I understand it can be important for credibility, but equally I...

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By: weston

This will only be true and actual when Apple does it. Product names, anyone? My bet's on iQube.

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By: cgs06

Boatmeme, TBone -- thanks much. Dobie -- that's a shame, because the scientific community in Canada has been extremely savvy about where they spend their limited resources. For example, the Sudbury...

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By: jeffamaphone

The smartest guy I know in the field is Dave Bacon. Granted, he is also the only guy I know. I took his Quantum Computing class at the UW. Here is what he has to say on the topic. In short: He's...

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By: BoatMeme

cgs06 - I bought your book for my girlfriend to explain some of the complex ideas that I'm just poor at communicating. Picked it up last week and found myself sucked in. Nice work!

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By: dobie

cgs06 -The investing/venture capital market in Canada is tiny and extremely risk averse. Despite any nationalist rhetoric you might hear, there isn't really the climate of fostering innovation that...

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By: BoatMeme

...and with the oncoming energy crunch, nobody's going to be able to afford a computer that sucks up 1.21 gigawatts of power. 1.21 Gigawatts!?!?!!!

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By: metaplectic

Leonid Levin explains here why quantum computing cannot work as claimed, even in principle: The major problem is the requirement that basic quantum equations hold to multi-hundredth if not millionth...

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By: dobie

Is anybody else feeling all hot and bothered with all this talk of processing inputs? I need to take a cold shower...

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By: Mister_A

Can I play Diablo on it?

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By: George_Spiggott

The beauty of a quantum computer is that while you don't necessarily get the right answer, in some of the universes that get forked off there is a version of you that does.

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