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Re:On Leaving Academia by alextp on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @11:44PM (#4289264)
Regarding finding the higgs boson, regardless of whether you agree that it's what they're actually doing, the main people actually building the first quantum computer are D-Wave, a private company.
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Re:On Leaving Academia by gcr on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @11:59PM (#4289295)
citation please? First, what does quantum computers have to do with finding the higgs boson? Second, is D-wave not standing on the shoulders of decades of academic research in designing their computer?
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Re:On Leaving Academia by lmm on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @11:06AM (#4291252)
D-Wave are making more exaggerated press release claims. Universities have better working quantum computers (i.e. any at all)
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Re:On Leaving Academia by neutronicus on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:47AM (#4289853)
They've got some serious-business Quantum Computing experiments at NIST, as well.
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