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Hmm. A couple days after the reports of Lockheed Martin becoming the first buyer of a commercial quantum computer: http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/05/25

by zzen 15y ago

Hmm. A couple days after the reports of Lockheed Martin becoming the first buyer of a commercial quantum computer: http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/05/25/d-wave-sells-quantum-computer-to-lockheed-martin/ http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/05/25/d-wave-sells-qu... Perhaps coincidence. Still, interesting.

bdhe 15y ago
Perhaps coincidence. Still, interesting. Almost certainly a coincidence. RSA was under an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) a while back in March, which might have lead to compromising the security of the SecurID tokens. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222522/rsa_warns_securid_customers_after_company_is_hacked.html http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222522/rsa_war... http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3872 http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3872
hugh3 15y ago
Certainly coincidence especially since (as I tire of reminding people every time D-Wave claims that their devices are "quantum computers") the "quantum computer" in question is not a quantum computer in the usual sense (and in particular can't break cryptography).
Estragon 15y ago
Very likely a coincidence. D-Wave is a bit of a joke. Do you think the method is scaleable up to the 128 qubits that D-Wave is claiming? Well, there’s no reason of principle why you couldn’t scale to a larger number of qubits! But given the history here, I’d be skeptical of claims by D-Wave to have done so already, and would want to see the evidence. (As usual, the burden is on D-Wave to prove that they’ve done something, not on everyone else to prove that they haven’t!) http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/05/24/q-and-a-with-prof-scott-aaronson-on-d-waves-quantum-computer/
- rbanffy 15y ago
  Many times, the success of a project in a company large enough to buy and operate a D-Wave computer has more to do with the amount written in the check than with attaining measurable results. Success will be defined according to what was achieved and the worst possible outcome is the person responsible for the project accepting a position on the vendor.

by zzen 15y ago

bdhe 15y ago

Perhaps coincidence. Still, interesting. Almost certainly a coincidence. RSA was under an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) a while back in March, which might have lead to compromising the security of the SecurID tokens. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222522/rsa_warns_securid_customers_after_company_is_hacked.html http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222522/rsa_war... http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3872 http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3872

hugh3 15y ago

Certainly coincidence especially since (as I tire of reminding people every time D-Wave claims that their devices are "quantum computers") the "quantum computer" in question is not a quantum computer in the usual sense (and in particular can't break cryptography).

Estragon 15y ago

Very likely a coincidence. D-Wave is a bit of a joke. Do you think the method is scaleable up to the 128 qubits that D-Wave is claiming? Well, there’s no reason of principle why you couldn’t scale to a larger number of qubits! But given the history here, I’d be skeptical of claims by D-Wave to have done so already, and would want to see the evidence. (As usual, the burden is on D-Wave to prove that they’ve done something, not on everyone else to prove that they haven’t!) http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/05/24/q-and-a-with-prof-scott-aaronson-on-d-waves-quantum-computer/

rbanffy 15y ago
Many times, the success of a project in a company large enough to buy and operate a D-Wave computer has more to do with the amount written in the check than with attaining measurable results. Success will be defined according to what was achieved and the worst possible outcome is the person responsible for the project accepting a position on the vendor.