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Silicon chips for optical quantum computing

UK researchers at Bristol University have shown that it is possible to control single photons on a silicon chip. The team developed 'the world's smallest optical controlled-NOT gate -- the building block of a quantum computer.' As said the lead researcher, 'This is a crucial step towards a future optical...

Tags: Optics, Abstract, Silicon Chip, Computing, Quantum Corp., Chip, Quantum Computing, Quantum Computer, Quantum Technology, Quantum Circuit, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-30

D-Wave demonstrates latest quantum computer prototype at SC07

D-Wave demonstrates latest quantum computer prototype at SC07Other researchers aren't convinced...It's good to see there was someone from ZDNet at the demo - I've been watching D-Wave from the UK for a while, and put something up earlier in the week, based on the publicity, and the reactions of the...

Tags: D-Wave, quantum computer, patent

Discussion threads 2007-11-15

D-Wave demonstrates latest quantum computer prototype at SC07

The words "paradigm shift" don't do justice to the potential of quantum computing. Everyone agrees it's coming, and it's going to turn the industry, if not the entire world, on its ear. Well, it's here now, says D-Wave founder Geordie Rose, who demonstrated his company's latest...

Tags: Patent, Computer, D-Wave, Quantum Computer, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-11-14

D-Wave's quantum computer ready for latest demo

D-Wave's quantum computer ready for latest demore: or maybe..."Maybe they are just trying to be a little more gentle in saying that this is proprietary technology so back off."Yeah - when's the last time that worked? How many people are really going to "back off" because some company wants a...

Tags: quantum computer, D-Wave

Discussion threads 2007-11-09

Start-up demos quantum computer

Start-up demos quantum computerFascinating...a new kind of brainSkynet!Hasta la vista babydont run windoze on itsorry, couldn't resist.I doubt it.I doubt it. Yeah, it's a new way of computing, but that doesn't mean it's going to be intelligent in the same way humans are. Like its silicon counterparts, it still relies...

Tags: quantum computer

Discussion threads 2007-02-14

Another step toward quantum computers

Another step toward quantum computersNice but ...... I think that more resources should be devoted to research in overcoming the problem of NP completeness. Now, nobody knows if there are algorithms in polynomial time to solve all the NP-complete problems but discovering only one (as you know from your theory...

Tags: Engineering, algorithm, quantum computer

Discussion threads 2006-11-20

Another step toward quantum computers

One day, we might use super fast computers based on quantum physics. But how these computers will read data? An international team from Germany and the U.S. has just shown that its possible to read data stored as nuclear spins. This new way of reading the spin of thousands of...

Tags: Computers &, Internet, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2006-11-20

Quantum computing without computing

What would happen if you powered up your computer and it gave you some results before opening any program? You would probably think that some kind of malware has infested your system. But with the optical quantum computer designed by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC, this...

Tags: quantum computer, algorithm

Blog posts 2006-02-23

Intel shows test chips made on future processes

Intel shows test chips made on future processesThe Future is nowor even yesterday.Just get the ones you are doing now right!Prediction 22nm is itIf InHell ever gets 22nm to work, it will be the last iteration of Moore's Law IMHO.For normal CPUs, but then there's Quantum ComputingAnd that'll drive the...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, future process, computer, Intel Corp., chip, Quantum Computers, quantum computer

Discussion threads 2006-01-25

Feds mull regulation of quantum computers

Feds mull regulation of quantum computersNot possibleUsing the Shrodingers cat (that was dead and alive at the same time - related to quantum mechanics) analogy, this technology could exist in the US and somewhere else simultaniously - as long as you didn't look at it . . .Isn't this kind...

Tags: Regulations, quantum computer

Discussion threads 2005-11-10

Additional Resources

Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists

Yeah, they have been saying this same thing for years....and everytime, they find a way to make computers even faster. I don't think that they will EVER reach a limit for computer power. Not ever.FacinatingI always knew there would be a wall somewhere, but what will be needed with that...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists

A pair of physicists have shown that if processors continue to accelerate in accordance to Moore's Law, we'll hit the wall of faster processing in roughly 75 years. The curtain will eventually come down for silicon in today's manufacturing methods once engineers can no longer further shrink...

Tags: Processor, Physicist, Speed, Computer, Moore, Productivity, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-10-15

OpenOffice users: Just say no to a Microsoft-like Ribbon interface

OpenOffice users: Just say no to a Microsoft-like Ribbon interfaceThey better follow Microsoft.Anyone who remember Jensen Harris' presentation at MIX08 knows that the Ribbon is the best thing to happen in user interface design in a long time. Lots of research went into it.OOo would be best-off using Microsoft's research...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Word processors, Microsoft Office, ribbon, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Seven post holes and one thought

Seven post holes and one thoughtFixed Flow RateMaybe my reasoning is not on form at the moment due to the copious amounts of beer I had last night but surely changing the diameter of the pipe doesnt make a difference. If you have a flow rate of 10 litres per...

Tags: quantum computing, post hole, Point-A

Discussion threads 2009-06-20

RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about money

RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about moneyRIAA is a dangerous criminal organizationThere is only one victim here, that poor woman, they destroyed her life, and for what?Of course she lied that her kids were the one, that she hadn't known etc. She was trying to get away...

Tags: CD, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

TomTom GO 740 Live

When we spoke with TomTom's representatives concerning the new GO 740 Live, the navigation device was described as offering a "God's-eye view" of the road. Now, the GO isn't omniscient, but it gets pretty close with its three-pronged approach to navigation data. Firstly and most importantly, a built-in wireless data...

Tags: bottom edge, TomTom Map Share, TomTom, GO 740 Live

Product reviews 2009-05-27

Nanowires, nanoribbons and 'graphane' among materials that'll revolutionize computers

Architects of the next generation of computers are developing a variety of nanostructures to meet the demand for increasingly smaller features for semiconductors, microprocessors, and other components. These tiny building blocks are quite extraordinary-some even self-assemble. And they'll help overcome many of the limitations of today's microelectronics...

Tags: Nanotube, Carbon Nanotube, Computer, Chip, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Material found in pencils may hold key to faster computer chips

Move over silicon because graphene, the sheet-like form of carbon found in graphite pencils, may hold the key to smaller and faster electronics. In a paper published in the journal Advanced Materials, engineers at Ohio State University describe a technique for stamping many graphene sheets onto...

Tags: Silicon, Computer Chip, Electronics, Sheet, Computer, Chip, Nitin Padture, Graphene Sheet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Google

GoogleThe future is hybrid."For several years, I?d been hearing the folks at Google talk about life in the cloud, about how a computer that wasn?t connected to the Internet was a computer that wasn?t really working."Which frankly is a terrible attitude IMHO.We'll never have 100% always up internet. Sorry. Hasn't...

Tags: Google Inc., Internet, network

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Hologram technology: the sub-atomic future of storage?

I was recently talking to some folks at Google about storage, specifically the amount of data that's being stored on the cloud as users upload things like photos and YouTube video clips. Gigabytes. Terabytes. Petabytes. I couldn't help but wonder, as we talked about all of this...

Tags: Hologram, Stanford, Beam, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-04