By: oberleit
Has anyone actually seen the machine at the other end of the remote interface? Heh..
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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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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...
View ArticleBy: 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.
View ArticleBy: 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....
View ArticleBy: mr_crash_davis
"This will only be true and actual when Apple does it. Product names, anyone? My bet's on iQube." iDunno.
View ArticleBy: 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"....
View ArticleBy: 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.
View ArticleBy: 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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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...
View ArticleBy: weston
This will only be true and actual when Apple does it. Product names, anyone? My bet's on iQube.
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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!
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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!?!?!!!
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: dobie
Is anybody else feeling all hot and bothered with all this talk of processing inputs? I need to take a cold shower...
View ArticleBy: 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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