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Re: June 1998 SciAm articles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sun May 24 16:55:05 1998
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 21:01:31 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: "P. J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
CC: cryptography@c2.net
P. J. Ponder wrote:
>
> The June issue of Scientific American has an article about recent advances
> in quantum computing and the online edition has links to Lucent's 50th
> anniversary of Shannon's paper 'A Mathematical Theory of Communciation'.
>
> http://www.sciam.com
>
> Quantum Computing with Molecules:
> http://www.sciam.com/1998/0698issue/0698gershenfeld.html
>
> Happy Shannon Day:
> http://www.sciam.com/bookmarks/index.html
>
> Crypto, especially factoring, is often cited in the article, and there are
> links in the online edition to a site at Stanford that describes Shor's
> algorithm: http://feynman.stanford.edu/qcomp/NMRQC/talk/sld031.htm
A recent New Scientist has an article about quantum computers that
produce answers without even being switched on!
And this week's Nature has some actual quantum computers in it.
Cheers,
Ben.
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