IP: IBM's Test-Tube Quantum Computer Makes History

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Rohan Amin" <rohana () gradient cis upenn edu>
> To: "Dave Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: IBM's Test-Tube Quantum Computer Makes History
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011219/tc/tech_ibm_quantum_dc_1.html
>
> http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20011219_quantum.shtml
>
> SAN JOSE, Calif., December 20, 2001 - Scientists at IBM's Almaden Research
> Center have performed the world's most complicated quantum-computer
> calculation to date. They caused a billion-billion custom-designed molecules
> in a test tube to become a seven-qubit quantum computer that solved a simple
> version of the mathematical problem at the heart of many of today's
> data-security cryptographic systems.
>
> <snip>

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