IBM Research Announces New Advances in Quantum Computing

Quantum computing has been a Holy Grail for researchers ever since Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, in 1981, challenged the scientific community to build computers based on quantum mechanics. For decades, the pursuit remained firmly in the theoretical realm. But now IBM scientists believe they're on the cusp of building systems that will take computing to a whole new level.

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[JazevoAudiosurf]

einstein disliked it ^^

[Martin Craft]

There is no Graphic card on Quantum Computers.

[CamiloSanchez1979]

The quantum computer is the H-bomb of our time, if the US doesn't make it first either the Europeans or the Chinese might come up with it. So IBM hurry up!

[sdasds sadsd]

if i am having problems with my rational equation homework will i have any hope in learning to create quantum computers?

[Bibit Waluyo]

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[tarcal87]

The question here is *how* computations are done technically. Whether it's a traditional CPU or a quantum one, the same computations are done (but much faster), and a programmer just uses the hardware the same way (except now it's just faster).

Parallel programming is a different thing, just like programming to multicore CPUs now, but it's nothing a programmer couldn't adapt to...

Why wouldn't average consumers be targets? It's all about speed, nothing else

[MichaelArronBerger]

LOL I wonder how many people got this. though i personally agree with einstein =/

[Ignacio Reyes]

why?

[Carbosful]

fuck no....conventional computer programmers would be useless..

With the release of more powerful computers comes EVERYTHING.

The speed of a computer is never "enough"...

I don't understand what you even mean by "conventional computers being enough"

[Kazverb]

We can find another star nearby until then.

[aryesegal1988]

by dumping the conventional pc and upgrading to a quantum computer? once this technology will become available for the army/government, it's not very long after that it'll be available for us, the home users, as well... i think hackers would still have trouble, because you have the same processing power in both ends: the end trying to hack, and the end who's encrypting the data, so... it'll become like nowadays -- a cat and mouse chase...