Comments on Next Big Future: Big News: Quantum computer demo dates announced

Quantum computer a dream,... a reality. I will be ...

2007-01-20T20:02:00.000-08:00

Quantum computer a dream,... a reality. I will be very interested to know more about this research team and the results.

Thanks for the compliment Sharene. If you look at ...

2007-01-20T12:27:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the compliment Sharene. If you look at some of my past articles, I reference some research papers that discuss the scalability of this type of analog quantum computer. It seems like it should easily go to several hundred qubits. Certainly Dwave can easily make 8X8, 16X16, 32X32 arrays.
As you point out we hopefully will see 8X8 by the end of the year.

Also, trapped ion and several other approaches to quantum computers are maturing quickly as well in case this approach stumbles. Or Dwave messes up on execution. I expect Dwave to get a lot more funding this year. Mainly government wanting to make a large scale system.

Brian: I very much enjoy reading your BLOG. You fo...

2007-01-20T04:16:00.000-08:00

Brian: I very much enjoy reading your BLOG. You focus on all the right things and this is one of them. Keep it up. I am still somewhat skeptical of what D-Wave is doing because it seems a bit too simple for others with more intellectual and financial capital to not be doing it also if there's something to it. We should know by the end of the year if this is the beginning of a major revolution in computing. I hope it is.

yeah, i have been waiting for this announcement fo...

2007-01-19T15:04:00.000-08:00

yeah, i have been waiting for this announcement for months now. very exciting.