Scott Aaronson on Google's new quantum-computing paper
Monday, December 14, 2015 - 06:51
in Mathematics & Economics
In 2010, a Canadian company called D-Wave announced that it had begun production of what it called the world's first commercial quantum computer, which was based on theoretical work done at MIT. Quantum computers promise to solve some problems significantly faster than classical computers—and in at least one case, exponentially faster. In 2013, a consortium including Google and NASA bought one of D-Wave's machines.