Quantum Computing
| As Time's Lev Grossman demonstrates, quantum computers make use of bizarre effects like quantum superposition and quantum entanglement, to function. These features may have the potential to unlock massive amounts of processing power, and to solve problems and jump-start artificial intelligence breakthroughs. |
Recently writing for Time Magazine, Lev Grossman covered the quantum computer era being ushered in by Burnaby, B.C.'s D-Wave. D-Wave has so few customers so far and its computer is so radical and strange, that people are still trying to figure out what it's for and how to use it.
It could represent an enormous new source of computing power according to Grossman, with the potential to solve problems that would take conventional computers centuries. The D-Wave Two and next generation offerings from the company may have revolutionary consequences for fields ranging from cryptography to nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals to artificial intelligence.
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Rose's ambitious approach to building quantum computing technology has received coverage in MIT Technology Review magazine, The Economist, New Scientist, Scientific American and Science magazines, and one of his business strategies was profiled in a Harvard Business School case study. He has received several awards and accolades for his work with D-Wave, including being short-listed for a 2005 World Technology Award.
Rose holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of British Columbia, specializing in quantum effects in materials. While at McMaster University, he graduated first in his class with a BEng in Engineering Physics, specializing in semiconductor engineering.
"If it succeeds it will be as revolutionary as the microprocessor," says Grossman. "You have to imaging the whole field of computing starting over, and we're starting a new story."
Grossman also discussed his article with Charlie Rose:
SOURCE Bloomberg, Time via Geordie Rose
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