If excitement was a necessary and sufficient criteria to reach higher quantum levels, they certainly must have been achieved yesterday morning in room 374 of the Rotman School of Business here in...
http://wavewatching.net/2017/09/06/the-creative-destruction-lab-reaches-a-new-quantum-level/
This blog is most emphatically not about politics, and although it has often been observed that everything is political, this exaggeration actually has become less true the more it is raised. Whe...
http://wavewatching.net/2017/02/12/lets-aspire-to-be-more-than-just-a-friendly-neighbour/
There’s been a lot of buzz recently about Quantum Computing. Heads of state are talking about it, and lots of money is being poured into research. You may think the field is truly on fire, but ...
Really Would Like to Get That Raclette Cheese. Last summer I had to ship a crate of maple syrup to Matthias Troyer at the ETHZ in Switzerland. The conditions we had agreed on for our performanc...
http://wavewatching.net/2015/12/13/d-wave-fast-enough-to-win-my-bet/
Update: Thanks to everybody who keeps pointing me to relevant news (Ramsey, Rolf, Sol and everybody else my overtired brain may not recall at this time). There is no doubt that D-Wave is on a r...
D‑Wave had to break new ground in many engineering disciplines. One of them was the cooling and shielding technology required to operate their chip. To this end they are now using ANSYS sof...
http://wavewatching.net/2015/05/08/will-super-cool-squids-make-for-an-emerging-industry-standard/
The proliferation of social networks seems unstoppable now. Even the big ones you can no longer count on one hand: Facebook, LinkedIn, GooglePlus, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Snapchat ...
http://wavewatching.net/2015/04/22/how-many-social-networks-do-you-need/
Qubit spin states in diamond defects don’t last forever, but they can last outstandingly long even at room temperature (measured in microseconds which is a long time when it comes to computing)...
http://wavewatching.net/2015/04/16/quantum-computing-road-map/
Are We There Yet? That’s the name of the talk that Daniel Lidar recently gave at Google (h/t Sol Warda who posted this in a previous comment). Spoiler alert, I will summarize some of the most i...
http://wavewatching.net/2015/03/08/quantum-computing-coming-of-age/
Usually, I like to start a new year on an upbeat note, but this time I just cannot find the right fit. I was considering whether to revisit technology that can clean water – lauding the effort...