An article by Jason Pontin of MIT criticizing the D-Wave's Quantum Computer: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/business/yourmoney/08slip.html
D-Wave has provided little to no insight of the inner workings of their Quantum Computers. Dr. Scott Aaronson, a critic of the D-Wave's Quantum Computer, says D-Wave should give some proof of their claims rather then talking like this: "The system we are currently deploying, which we call Trinity, is a capability-class supercomputer specifically designed to provide extremely rapid and accurate approximate answers to arbitrarily large NP-complete problems … Trinity has a front-end software interface, implemented in a combination of Java and C, that allows a user to easily state any NP-complete problem of interest. After such a problem has been stated the problem is compiled down to the machine language of the processors at the heart of the machine. These processors then provide an answer, which is shuttled back to the front end and provided to the user. This capability can of course be called remotely and/or as a subroutine of some other piece of software." Dr. Rose of D-Wave Dr. Scott Aaronson translated: "Not only have we built a spaceship capable of reaching Pluto in a few hours, our spaceship also has tinted windows and deluxe leather seats!" If I were them, I'd focus more on the evidence for their core technological claims, given that those claims are very much what's at issue. Read more at: http://scottaaronson.com/blog/ _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
