{"id":1335,"date":"2015-09-03T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=261039"},"modified":"2015-09-03T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:56:08","slug":"intel-invests-us50-million-in-quantum-computing-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2015\/09\/03\/intel-invests-us50-million-in-quantum-computing-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel invests US$50 million in quantum-computing research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_261047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 427px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/intel-invests-us50-million-in-quantum-computing-research\/quantum_computing\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-261047\"><img class=\" wp-image-261047 \" title=\"Quantum_Computing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Quantum_Computing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">Think of classical physics as a coin. It can be either heads or tails. If it were a bit, it would be 0 or 1. In quantum physics, this coin is best thought of as a constantly spinning coin. It represents heads and tails simultaneously. As a result, a qubit would be both 0 and 1 and spin simultaneously up and down. (credit: Intel)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/homepage.html\" >Intel<\/a> announced today (Thursday Sept. 3) an investment of $50 million and &#8220;significant engineering resources&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_computing\" >quantum computing<\/a> research, in a 10-year collaborative relationship with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tudelft.nl\/en\/\" >Delft University of Technology<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tno.nl\/en\/about-tno\/organisation\/\" >TNO, the Dutch Organisation for Applied Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A fully functioning quantum computer is at least a dozen years away, but the practical and theoretical research efforts we&#8217;re announcing today mark an important milestone in the journey to bring it closer to reality,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/newsroom\/assets\/bio\/CorpOfficers.htm\" >Mike Mayberry<\/a>, Intel vice president and managing director of Intel Labs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/newsroom\/archive\/Quantum_Computing.png\" >Infographic: Quantum Computing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/newsroom\/archive\/promise_of_quantum_computing.pdf\" >The Promise of Quantum Computing By Intel CEO Brian Krzanichg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel announced today (Thursday Sept. 3) an investment of $50 million and &ldquo;significant engineering resources&rdquo; in quantum computing research, in a 10-year collaborative relationship with the Delft University of Technology and TNO, the Dutch Organisation for Applied Research. &ldquo;A fully functioning quantum computer is at least a dozen years away, but the practical and theoretical [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,43,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersinfotechui","category-news","category-quantum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}