Comments on: Episode 176: Quantum Computing with Martin Laforest http://www.se-radio.net/2011/06/episode-176-quantum-computing-with-martin-laforest/ The Podcast for Professional Software Developers Tue, 14 May 2013 01:48:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: quantium cracking « Invalidmagic's Blog http://www.se-radio.net/2011/06/episode-176-quantum-computing-with-martin-laforest/#comment-1470 quantium cracking « Invalidmagic's Blog Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:39:05 +0000 http://www.se-radio.net/?p=1074#comment-1470 [...] http://www.se-radio.net/2011/06/episode-176-quantum-computing-with-martin-laforest/ Like this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

]]> By: Mads Lindstrøm http://www.se-radio.net/2011/06/episode-176-quantum-computing-with-martin-laforest/#comment-1090 Mads Lindstrøm Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:51:46 +0000 http://www.se-radio.net/?p=1074#comment-1090 The discussion touched upon quantum computers relation to Turing machines. As I understood it, you have exponential blowup when you run a quantum program upon a Turing machine. Thus, I was wondering if quantum computers were equivalent to non-deterministic Turing machines?

]]> By: Frank http://www.se-radio.net/2011/06/episode-176-quantum-computing-with-martin-laforest/#comment-1069 Frank Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:48:01 +0000 http://www.se-radio.net/?p=1074#comment-1069 I think it’s the same as http://traffic.libsyn.com/omegataupodcast/omegatau-54-quantumComputing.mp3

]]> By: Bob Lauer http://www.se-radio.net/2011/06/episode-176-quantum-computing-with-martin-laforest/#comment-1058 Bob Lauer Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:08:24 +0000 http://www.se-radio.net/?p=1074#comment-1058 I was gonna ask the same question: D-Wave (the company behind the aforementioned quantum computer) has already mentioned a “breakthrough” in commercially available quantum computers a few years ago. They’ve had lots of venture captital from Germany and Canada, if I remember correctly.

So are they selling snake oil? Or is it just a computer that makes use of some quantum effects to run a bit faster, but not actually applying q-bit computation (which they claim to do)?

(see http://www.dwavesys.com/en/products-services.html for details)

]]> By: Jan http://www.se-radio.net/2011/06/episode-176-quantum-computing-with-martin-laforest/#comment-1057 Jan Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:45:22 +0000 http://www.se-radio.net/?p=1074#comment-1057 This was posted recently on SlashDot about quantum computing

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/27/1931247/Lockheed-Martin-
Purchases-First-Commercial-Quantum-Computer

Lockheed Martin actually buying such a system. I thought we were nowhere near commercial quantum computers yet. :-)

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