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IBM's Test-Tube Quantum Computer Makes History
IBM Research News ^
| 12/20.01
| IBM
Posted on 12/20/2001 2:55:02 AM PST by Arkle
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I don't pretend to entirely understand this, but it sounds important.
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posted on
12/20/2001 2:55:02 AM PST
by
Arkle
To: Arkle
If they can split the atom, I can split the infinitive.
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posted on
12/20/2001 2:56:28 AM PST
by
Arkle
To: Arkle
I'm impressed....But will it run on Windows with out crashing?
To: Arkle
If I pretended to understand it, would I sound important?
To: Arkle
Bump for later read
To: scully
bump!
To: Arkle
I don't pretend to entirely understand this, but it sounds important.it does sound important. but i don't pretend to understand it at all. wtf are these people talking about? they get paid to do this? why? how do i, the consumer, benefit from this?
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posted on
12/20/2001 3:08:40 AM PST
by
johnboy
To: Arkle
Will it make cheese?
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posted on
12/20/2001 3:09:24 AM PST
by
ofMagog
To: Arkle
I bet the RAM is going to be expensive as anything on that one.
To: Tarzantheape
I'm impressed....But will it run on Windows with out crashing? If it can do that, then I will be impressed!
To: johnboy
how do i, the consumer, benefit from this? It will do functions before you think of them. It will post cheese threads here on it's own.
To: Arkle
The factors of fifteen...
Well, not counting 1 and 15 itself, that leaves 13 numbers to try. I think I can do that with a pencil and piece of paper. Mebbee not as fast, but one hell of a lot cheaper.
Congrats, IBM, impressive achievement nonetheless!
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posted on
12/20/2001 3:20:09 AM PST
by
djf
To: ofMagog
Will it make cheese?
No, but it might make a moose bite your sister.
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posted on
12/20/2001 3:21:55 AM PST
by
wasp69
To: johnboy; arkle
"Now we have the challenge of turning quantum computation into an engineering reality," said Isaac Chuang, leader of the research team and now an associate professor at MIT. "If we could perform this calculation at much larger scales -- say the thousands of qubits required to factor very large numbers -- fundamental changes would be needed in cryptography implementations." A practical result of the above would be that current cryptology implementations would probably become obsolete i.e. Pretty Good Privacy/PGP and others. So the government could read any and all encrypted email, if they can't already.
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To: Tarzantheape
I'm impressed....But will it run on Windows with out crashing? Sorry, but the scientists in my head tell me it only runs Linux, and not "legacy operating systems" like Windows.
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posted on
12/20/2001 3:26:47 AM PST
by
The Duke
To: Arkle
TERMINATOR 666
To: djf
Cryptographers understand. It will soon be time to go back to the drawing board.
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posted on
12/20/2001 3:27:51 AM PST
by
gaspar
To: djf
Cryptographers understand. It will soon be time to go back to the drawing board.
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posted on
12/20/2001 3:28:07 AM PST
by
gaspar
To: Arkle
These quantum computers will be on sale at Wal-Mart on December 26th for $89.95 (made in China, of course)
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