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Quantum computing for solving quantum problems

Impact: Quantum Physics    January 24, 2010
Sooner rather than later (a few years as opposed to decades) there will be a functional quantum computer. The definition of such a computer is loose. The first quantum computers will not be anything like a personal computer or even a supercomputer. They won’t look like ‘normal’ computers and they won’t compute like them either. [...]
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Quantum computing and image recognition

Impact: Computer Power    December 14, 2009
One of the many things that’s easy for (adult) humans and very difficult for computers is image recognition. Take twenty thousand pictures of a street, half with cars and half without. A human being will separate car pictures from non-car pictures with about 100% accuracy (if not falling asleep from boredom). Not so for computers, [...]
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