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First Programmable Quantum Computer

2 December 2009 One Comment

A quick note on one of my favorite new technologies – quantum computers.  Quantum computers are coming into reality, and here’s a story about the world’s first programmable one…

Quantum computers can do a number of things exponentially faster than regular computers, such as searching through unsorted databases and factoring integers (which is useful for codebreaking).  While these applications are pretty limited, there are new algorithms that let quantum computers work on important useful problems…

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  • Multiple Universes?! Hooey!… | The Logic of Science said:

    [...] He’s a Dirac Prize winner and in important contributor to the field of quantum mechanics and quantum computation (a favorite subject of mine…).  However, I just don’t buy into this poppycock of multiple universes – it’s [...]

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