• Technology

    Quantum Computing 2017

    Quantum computers may soon be the most powerful data center hardware. Here I review quantum computing concepts, and highlight recent innovations from IBM, D-Wave Systems, Google, Microsoft, Intel and Alibaba. Websites, press releases and articles referred to in the video are as follows: IBM Q online quantum computer: https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix…. IBM cloud quantum computer press release, May 2016: https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pr… IBM Q press release, March 2017: https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pr… Latest IBM quantum processors press release, May 2017: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pre… “Physical Review X” technical article on D-Wave 2X performance (1 August 2016): https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract… “Nature” article by Google Quantum AI Lab engineers (March 2017): https://static.googleusercontent.com/… Microsoft Station Q: https://stationq.microsoft.com/ “MIT Technology Review” article on Intel silicon-based quantum…