MIT And HP Announce Joint Quantum Computer Project

MetaCow writes: "CNN is running this article which describes a joint effort between MIT and HP to build a quantum computer. Nothing expected any time soon, though: 'Quantum computing research is farsighted, and it may take 10 years to develop a fully operational quantum computer ...'"

They may or may not succeed.

[SpanishInquisition]

Someone will have to observe them to get a definitive answer.

This is progress?

[Glock27]

It seems that a quantum computer could calculate every possible double answer simultaneously, given a 64 qubit processor. The only problem is that, if the answer is read out, its guaranteed to be wrong! ;-)

This is something of a drop from conventional computer performance, in which the answer is merely often wrong.

Somehow I think this article 'dumbed things down' a bit too much...

186,282 mi/s...not just a good idea, its the law!

Re:This is progress?

[UberLame]

Err, I thought it was only wrong if you tried to read the answer before the computation was done.

Scheduling challenges

[isomeme]

The project, announced last week, is part of a $25 million, five-year alliance launched in June 2000.

Of course, we won't know if the project worked or not until someone looks inside the lab in 2005.

Re:only $25 million in funds?

[Anonymous Coward]

years 0-7: pizza, beer, sleep till 3pm every day.
year 8: go see what CMU has done with Quantum computing
year 9: reimplement & call press conferences to upstage CMU, cuz we're MIT dammit