A detour into the strange world of quantum computing
2/12/2007 12:16:26 PM, by John Timmer
On Tuesday, a startup company called D-Wave is going to publicly demonstrate a quantum computing system that they call Orion. Is this the dawn of a new era of computing or simply an exercise in hype? It's hard to say prior to the announcement, but my guess is a little of both. To fully appreciate why, we'll have to take a detour into the strange world of quantum computing.

they claim to have a working 16 bit quantum computer...even if its extremely limited in its applications I'm very excited to see this technology moving forward so quickly...

UPDATE:
so I just heard from someone that was at the demo, it apears to have worked as advertised...pretty amazing...

UPDATE - A detour into the strange world of quantum computing