http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/ Engadget Comments for Google working with D-Wave on what may or may not be quantum computing http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
Will the LHC will help us understand Elementary particles and there interaction via Higgs mechanism and also particles wave–particle duality .

Understanding the above is a key to build a quantum computing IMO.

Now, If only someone can prevent the Higgs boson from getting back in time to hide it very existing.]]>Dec 16th 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
Touche...

The weird part is when you start to consider the question of "Would they already have a quantum computer if we weren't looking?"

Actually, the more I think about it, I think Steorn is a QC, I mean, It obviously works, unless we observe it...

(please excuse my shady puns, it's been a while since I took physics, I might be rusty...)]]>Dec 16th 2009 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Let him out! He's so cold!]]>Dec 16th 2009 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
Is this evidence that Engadget already has a quantum computer?]]>Dec 16th 2009 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
I mean, we need to consider this, this device can identify objects, not via any way we are used to pattern recognition (we usually program key patterns directly into the software, it is how we tell the software what features are important and relevant, and what features are confounding), but by LEARNING from OBSERVING...

This means the device is capable of observing a scene, registering all the complex features of the scene, observing another scene, and determining the relationship of the two scenes and what makes the "Car" object it is looking for. In subsequent scenes it is then able to determine all of the relating features, ignoring irrelevant ones and reassigning relevant ones...

Sounds a lot like LEARNING to me. One small step, 2 years to complete the process. The next step is to give them arms, so once they have identified the car, they can pick it up and hurtle it at the pedestrians they were also able to identify...

I am suddenly of the firm belief that Google will have something to do with 2012... Something I think Hollywood should look into...]]>Dec 16th 2009 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
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Er, I mean, have a nice day!]]>Dec 16th 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
That is actually funny, I have a friend tell me I need to read Michael Crichton, something about a Brave New World? New World? Something like that.

Anyway, sounds like I am going to have to get on that...]]>Dec 16th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
Brave New World is Aldous Huxley.

P.S. You need to stop reading these articles 5 minutes after you get high as balls. ]]>Dec 16th 2009 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
Cheers]]>Dec 16th 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
It doesn't scare me, but I am afraid that by the time I graduate college (for the second time), all the fun areas of computer science that I want to work on will be figured out already. :(]]>Dec 16th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
The Michael Crichton book you're referring to is called "Prey", and it examines the potentially disastrous combination of artificial intelligence and nanorobots. I thought it was an excellent book. Somewhat implausible, but still a fun story. Highly recommended.]]>Dec 16th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
Perhaps the reason we cannot find any evidence of alien civilizations is they build stuff like the LHC or Q-Bit computers or some such zany shit, it gets out of hand and kills them off.

..perhaps intelligence is self-limiting.]]>Dec 16th 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
The day Skynet was born...]]>Dec 16th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
@TimStevens Why are the critics supposed to be "shutting up" just because Google signs on? Just because Google is staffed by smart people doesn't mean they can't ever be bamboozled. Or Google is just signing on for a particular capability and it doesn't matter whether the capability operates by a particular means, but that it performs a certain function?]]>Dec 16th 2009 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Nuclear fusion is only 10 years away, and has been for the past 40 years...]]>Dec 16th 2009 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Nuclear fusion is only about 15 years away, and has been for 50 years...]]>Dec 16th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/

Couldn't decide on tense?]]>Dec 16th 2009 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Dec 16th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
Or maybe John Henry?
"John Henry, portrayed initially by computer equipment and Garret Dillahunt as of the end of "Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point", is a sentient computer built by Catherine Weaver's Babylon team at ZeiraCorp. His initial hardware and software were the Turk chess computer built by Andrew "Andy" David Goode. He is named John Henry by his psychologist, Dr. Boyd Sherman, after the mythical steel driving John Henry of American folklore. John Henry is given complete control over the building's electrical service at Weaver's insistence, so that he can route electrical power to his servers as necessary to develop his mind. Input is provided electronically at first, and later through voice recognition. Initially, he has no textual output, and can express himself only with visual imagery. Once connected to Cromartie's T-888 body, however, he speaks in the voice of the late George Laszlo. John Henry can see through the lab's security cameras."]]>Dec 16th 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/Google working with Steorn or what may or may not be free energy.
It could happen, immediately after March.]]>Dec 16th 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/google-working-with-d-wave-on-what-may-or-may-not-be-quantum-com/
Steorn on the other hand....they were complete BS. Never had any real concrete research done and made unbeleivable promises. Also they were working on a zero-energy device, which all sane people know cannot exist. This is far far far away from what D-Wave is doing with Quantum computing.

D-Wave does not claim to "invent" quantum computing. They simply are smart enough and passionate enough about it to relentlessly try and tame the elusive qubit, which my friends has existedfor a very long time. The trouble is how to you squeeze the information out of them without breaking down the system, and with Adiabatic Quantum Computing, for certain types of problems and situations, D-Wave has been successful. Read up a little! Hope this sheds some light...Comparing D-Wave to Steorn is like comparing the brainwaves inside the US pres. Obama's head to G.dub Ya's...c'mon people!! :-\]]>Dec 16th 2009 11:24PM