Topic: Google Demonstrates Quantum Computer Image Search

[sam]

http://search.slashdot.org/story/09/12/13/1358250/Google-Demonstrates-Quantum-Computer-Image-Search?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)

s reader sends along this quote from New Scientist: "Google's web services may be considered cutting edge, but they run in warehouses filled with conventional computers. Now the search giant has revealed it is investigating the use of quantum computers to run its next generation of faster applications. Writing on Google's research blog this week, Hartmut Neven, head of its image recognition team, reveals that the Californian firm has for three years been quietly developing a quantum computer that can identify particular objects in a database of stills or video (PDF). Google has been doing this, Neven says, with D-Wave, a Canadian firm that has developed an on-chip array of quantum bits — or qubits — encoded in magnetically coupled superconducting loops

[Simon]

Google WILL take over the world!

[sam]

already happened.

[Simon]

 

[Clive]

I for one welcome our new GoogleLords.   

[sam]

I for one welcome our new GoogleLords.   

are you suggesting that some giant bugs are going to take over google?

[Clive]

You don't mean.......swine flu?   

[sam]

 

[Simon]

I'm sure I've just had that! 

[sam]

I'm sure I've just had that! 

knocks ya out doesnt it... hope you are feeling better.

[Simon]

90% better than before the weekend, thanks. 

[sam]

90% better than before the weekend, thanks. 

just dont rush back in a heavy workload.

[Simon]

Can't really avoid it. It will be my busiest week of the year, but it's only four days, then I break up for two and a half weeks. 

[sam]

Can't really avoid it. It will be my busiest week of the year, but it's only four days, then I break up for two and a half weeks. 

 

[Rik]

He's as bad as an MP, isn't he, Sam.