Science &... » quantum computer http://www.micfarris.com Mashup of science, business, technology, and channeling inner geekness! Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 First Programmable Quantum Computer http://www.micfarris.com/2009/12/first-programmable-quantum-computer/ http://www.micfarris.com/2009/12/first-programmable-quantum-computer/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:18:35 +0000 Mic Farris http://www.micfarris.com/?p=166

(Read More...)]]> 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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