Saturday, January 16, 2010

The bumpy road towards quantum computing

In a recent IEEE Spectrum article, various quantum computing researchers question the likelihood of success in D-Wave system's attempt to build a quantum computer.

To summarize, "D-Wave Systems' quantum computers look to be bigger, costlier, and slower than conventional ones".
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/loser-dwave-does-not-quantum-compute

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