Hi there!, sorry for my absent… I’m back again 
During past two weeks there was a lot of buzz about Quantum Computing, as D-Wave promised to demonstrate the first commercial Quantum Computer. It was expected to be the first really working Quantum Computer but considering the complexity of the system and the almost total lack of information about it, there was a lot of skepticism around the event…
the stakes are high, and if it really works as promised, in the near future it can outperform the actual digital computers power in such a way that almost all cryptographic algorithms will be obsolete!
The demo took place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on February 13, 2007, were D-Wave showed some applications running over Orion, the so-called 16-qubit Quantum Computer. But it turns out that it really wasn’t enough for the scientific community as scientists were skeptical about D-Wave achievements.
…well, I haven’t been there, so one way to find out what happened is to read this article from Ars Technica about the demonstration. As far as I understood the show is not over, and there is still a lot to explain about the Orion system… is it really a true Quantum Computer? or just a Quantum flop? anyway, we must take into account that this is still an experimetal system and as such we must wait and see what the future reserve to us (to follow up in future posts).
There is also a nice interview at Wired with David Deutsch, the “father” of Quantum Computing.
cheers!
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