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Quantum Computing - a step nearer?
News Quantum computing, one of the 20th century's oddest ideas, has taken another step towards reality. If reality is the right word: quantum computing (QC), which promises massive performance gains over current computer designs, lives in the same...
[September 8, 1998, 11:44]
A Year Ago: Quantum computing - a step nearer?
News Quantum computing, one of the 20th century's oddest ideas, has taken another step towards reality. If reality is the right word: quantum computing (QC), which promises massive performance gains over current computer designs, lives in the same...
[September 8, 1999, 6:49]
A Solace for Quantum Computing
Blog A year on from a spectacular controversy in quantum computing, it looks like rationality is breaking out. The problem was that quantum computing is still at an early stage in the labs. But it was effectively a demo on a "black box" - and was...
[October 27, 2008, 8:36]
Scientists move closer to quantum computing
News According to some, unthinkable computing power and speed may not be far away if the quantum world can be harnessed. Scientists at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Colorado have moved a step closer to developing the...
[January 21, 2000, 16:26]
Big leap for quantum computing
News That situation makes quantum computers analogous to a traditional computing system that has very little useful software written for it. This speeds us computations exponentially - a question that would require a classical computer to take 1 million...
[May 25, 2000, 14:48]
A Year Ago: Scientists move closer to quantum computing
News According to some, unthinkable computing power and speed may not be far away if the quantum world can be harnessed. Scientists at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Colorado have moved a step closer to developing the...
[January 21, 2001, 6:03]
A Year Ago: Big leap for quantum computing
News That situation makes quantum computers analogous to a traditional computing system that has very little useful software written for it. This speeds us computations exponentially - a question that would require a classical computer to take 1 million...
[May 25, 2001, 6:28]
News Burst: Big leap for quantum computing
News Perhaps quantum computers can help. Construction of such machines is still impractical, but that hasn't stopped Luv Grover from writing quantum "software. A researcher at the famed Bell Labs, Grover Tuesday announced hed designed a program that...
[May 25, 2000, 14:04]
Subspace Computing With Inbuilt Web
Blog The advent of quantum computing and what that really means. They will be capable of faster than light communication and if much of quantum theory turns out to be correct you could just construct your platform here on earth and have mirror...
[January 7, 2009, 11:28]
Quantum dots lead to entanglement breakthrough
News It has many possible uses in encryption, communication, quantum computing, medical imaging and chip production. The latter means we can trigger the generation of entangled photons with an external clock signal, essential for many applications in...
[January 11, 2006, 17:45]
Start-up shows off quantum computer
News Quantum computing is the translation of those laws into a format that we can take. The qubits behave according to a certain set of rules," said founder and chief technology officer Geordie Rose, who likened quantum computing to trying to decipher...
[February 15, 2007, 8:02]
Google scientist to demo quantum computer
News Proposed by Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman and elaborated on by David Deutsch in the 1980s, quantum computing has made slow progress because of the difficulty of building systems with more than a few quantum bits, or "qubits", and then...
[November 9, 2007, 15:29]
The atoms went marching in one by one
News The new method, the institute said, is "likely to warm the hearts of researchers in fields ranging from nanotechnology to quantum computing to semiconductor processing. Kumar Wickramasinghe, an IBM fellow and manager of nanoscale and quantum...
[May 16, 2003, 9:19]
Quantum countersues in Imation tape spat
News Legal challenges are inflaming the otherwise staid tape backup industry, with Quantum filing a countersuit on Wednesday accusing Imation of misappropriating trade secrets. In the lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Santa Clara County...
[October 4, 2001, 10:15]
Future fibre networks to exceed light speed?
News One of the big promises has been quantum computing and we still don't have it. But two German physicists claim to have forced light to overcome its own speed limit using the strange phenomenon known as "quantum tunnelling".
[August 16, 2007, 13:39]
2001: The year of shrinking technology
News Barely a week went by without IBM, NEC or a host of university research labs announcing something new in carbon, yet more Alice in Wonderland stories from the far shores of quantum computing, or both.
[December 27, 2001, 6:31]
RSA namesakes win Turing honours
News However, in a later session, RSA's Shamir drew a parallel between the Iraq situation and quantum cryptography, drawing a parallel with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal -- a cornerstone of quantum physics.
[April 15, 2003, 10:22]
Quantum codes, deep space and utter geek delight
Blog The quantum world is a noisy world (which is why most quantum computing takes place in extremely cold devices, where much noise is hushed), and that places extreme limitations on what you can do with it outside the clean lines of mathematical...
[August 5, 2008, 0:27]
White House preps cybersecurity plan
News It says that the government should closely monitor progress in quantum computing, intelligent agents and nanotechnology: "For example, the development of intelligent nanodevices could cause massive growth in the numbers of connected devices on the...
[September 17, 2002, 15:19]
Spin doctors create quantum transistor
News It is especially significant for quantum computing, where spin state is an integral part of the equations at the heart of much of the work being done. According to a paper published in the American Physical Society's Physical Review Letters...
[July 8, 2002, 12:48]
