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February 9, 2007 at 07:56 AM
jaqui

Quantum Computing, is it a Pipe Dream?

by jaqui . Updated 19 years, 4 months ago

Not according to D-wave systems in Burnaby British Columbia, Canada.

They have a free webcast scheduled for February 13 of a demonstration of their quantum cpu.

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D-Wave Systems, a hardware developer headed by 34-year-old theoretical physicist Geordie Rose, has issued an open invitation to all technophiles to become “an eye witness to history” at the live-link, Feb. 13 launch of the company’s “16-qubit” Orion supercomputer. And the demonstration of D-Wave’s “technological first” will take place at a site equal to the company’s portentous claims — the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley

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The news article:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b32107b1-b4c2-4312-b92f-75aa048f7655&k=73484

editing to bump the thread yet again.

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