The next generation of D-Wave’s adiabatic quantum computer technology is called Vesuvius, and it’s going to be a very interesting processor. It will have 512 qubits and the system is scheduled for release late in 2012. The testing and development of this new generation of quantum processor is going well. Originally Dwave had talked about …
Dwave has sold a $10 million 128 qubit quantum computer systems and services to Lockheed and will also install another system at USC Currently the devPortal is being tested within D-Wave, however they are hoping to open it up to many developers in a staged way within the next year. Dwave should have 512 qubit …
Technoverseblog has a summary of the Singularity Summit 2011 Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal, investor, and Singularity Institute board member) railed against the general public’s distrust and discomfort with technology. And Steve Job’s making technology accessible and friendly? Said Thiel: “… a large part involves designing technology in order to hide it. And so the …
Steve Omohundro is a computer scientist who has spent decades designing and writing artificial intelligence software. He now heads a startup corporation, Omai Systems, which will license intellectual property related to AI. In an interview with Sander Olson, Omohundro discuss Apollo style AGI programs, limiting runaway growth in AI systems, and the ultimate limits of …
Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) has entered into an agreement to purchase a quantum computing system from D-Wave Systems Inc. Lockheed Martin and D-Wave will collaborate to realize the benefits of a computing platform based upon a quantum annealing processor, as applied to some of Lockheed Martin’s most challenging computation problems. The multi-year contract includes …
Scott Aaronson has commented about the Dwave paper that was published in Nature. (Quantum annealing with manufactured spins) In the new work, they apply an annealing operation to eight coupled qubits arranged in a 1D chain, then plot the probability of a particular basis state as a function of time, by running the experiment over …
Dwave has had their 128 qubit adiabatic quantum computer chip for some time It is a 4×4 array of 8-qubit unit cell Just a few days ago Dwave published a peer reviewed article in the prestigious journal Nature that confirms that their 8 qubit unit cells are leveraging quantum effects. So proving the 8 qubit …
Partha Ranganathan is Hewlett Packard’s Principal Investigator for HPs exascale datacenter project and is an expert on data center design. Modern data centers are not nearly as efficient as they could be and waste prodigious amounts of energy. Unless these inefficiencies are addressed, exascale supercomputers and data centers will never be feasible. In an interview …
The artificial general intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel is a major proponent of anti-aging research. In H+magazine, Goertzel interviews one of the foremost authorities on the subject, Jao Pedro de Magalhaes. Magalhaes is confident that with sufficient funding, anti-aging treatments could be in use by mid-century. Aubrey de Grey’s Key to Longevity If you liked this …
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In an interview with Sander Olson, Cornell engineer and researcher Hod Lipson discusses adaptive, evolving robots. Lipson’s robots compete and learn, and acquire new skills in movement. Lipson uses simulators to co-evolve both simulators and robots. Lipson’s has already demonstrated a robot that can compensate for losing a limb by modifying its movement. Hod Lipson …