D-Wave: Canucks On a Roll
Looks like some hometown entrepreneurs are making waves with their quantum computer, and getting plenty of coverage to boot. Alas, I wasn’t able to score an invitation to the party at the Computer History Museum, but The Register covered it nicely (I especially like the quote “the management’s mix of enthusiasm and frank realism made the pitch all the more believable” – something uniquely Canadian).
Way to go guys!
More comments are rolling in, first on BoingBoing, as well on The J Curve (Steve Jurvetson is one of D-Wave’s investors).
I’m kind of curious why some of the commentary is underestimating D-Wave’s accomplishment…sure the Sudoku demo is a bit throwaway, but the other demonstrations (both fairly difficult problems from a traditional computer science perspective) should not be so easily dismissed. Funny, given how much people go ga-ga over some of the trivia shown at DEMO 2007 this year.