Ars Technica was at the launch of that Quantum Computer by D-Wave Systems last week & apparently was not very impressed. While A/T, it seems, did attend the event in body (they’ve got the pix to prove it), they weren’t there in spirit (they brought along a rebuttal witness). Ars’ analysis makes note of a number of D-Wave sci papers that have failed peer review, and they advise us of the skecticism of many, including one Professor Hans Hilgenkamp towards all this putative tomfoolery by D-Wave.
Countering all (er, some of?) the negativity is an article in EDN that describes how the D-Wave SQUID device works, how it was used to solve some Sudoku puzzles, and what the future might hold.
We’ve no idea what this all means, but while we patiently wait for our copy of “Quantum Computers for Dummies” to arrive, we’ll have to make do with this Wired interview, with David Deutsch, who is alleged to be the father of quantum computing.
D-Wave demonstrates quantum computer… or a black box in a fridge – Ars Technica, February 18, 2007
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Hans Hilgenkamp sounds like a tough adversary. I’m sure we’d all dread going up against Hans Hilgenkamp!