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Vesuvius: A closer look – 512 qubit processor gallery

The next generation of D-Wave’s technology is called Vesuvius, and it’s going to be a very interesting processor. The testing and development of this new generation of quantum processor is going well....

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Videos from the NASA Quantum Future Technologies Conference

There are a bunch of cool videos available online from presentations at the recent NASA Quantum Future Technologies conference. In case you don’t want to watch all the talks (there are a lot!), I’ll...

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Physics World blog article featuring D-Wave

On Friday Hamish Johnston from Physics World visited D-Wave to have a look round and investigate the ‘inside’ of the D-Wave box. Read his report here! Physics World Blog >> Inside the box at...

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The dreams of spiritual machines

When I was in middle school, every year we had to select a project to work on. These projects came from a list of acceptable projects. The projects were typical science-ish projects you’d expect a...

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D-Wave Ones in their native habitat

Here is a nice shot of two D-Wave OneTM systems being tested in the lab!

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USC Viterbi articles about their D-Wave One install

USC Viterbi’s latest magazine has several articles describing their experience to date with their D-Wave One system, including an introduction by Dean of Engineering Yannos Yortsos, and an interview of...

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Scaling of qubit count over the past 8 years…

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Good article on D-Wave in the Globe and Mail… with extra video goodness

A pretty decent article on D-Wave in the Globe and Mail today. In addition to the article there are a couple videos of me dropping mad science on fools for real.

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Video from USC install

Here is a presentation I gave at USC when the first D-Wave One was installed there. Thanks to Buck Nasty for the link!

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Experimental signature of programmable quantum annealing

Some new science from users of the D-Wave One at USC ISI. Here’s the arxiv link. Here’s the abstract: Quantum annealing is a general strategy for solving difficult optimization problems with the aid of...

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USC researchers discuss experiences with their D-Wave One

The conclusions are at 1:14:36 if you’d like to skip forward.

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Dr. Daniel Lidar talking about experiments on the D-Wave One at USC

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Lockheed Martin piece about D-Wave technology

Here is a short piece describing what Lockheed Martin and scientists at USC think about D-Wave technology. Here is a great quote from the piece. It’s a game changer for the corporation, it’s a game...

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Sparse coding on D-Wave hardware: setting up the problem

Sparse coding is a very interesting idea that we’ve been experimenting with. It is a way to find ‘maximally repeating patterns’ in data, and use these as a basis for representing that data. Some of...

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Sparse coding on D-Wave hardware: finding weights is a QUBO

In my last post, I set up an optimization problem that we need to solve to do a particularly interesting kind of sparse coding. Solving this problem requires several steps. Some of these are easy and...

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Sparse coding on D-Wave hardware: some results

Last week I described two variants of sparse coding. One, which is commonly used, attempts to find a dictionary of atoms which can be used to sparsely reconstruct data, where the reconstructions are...

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Sparse coding on D-Wave hardware: things that don’t work

Ice, ice baby. For Christmas this year, my dad bought me a book called Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing. It is a true story about folks who survive incredible hardship for a...

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Some new Rainier science

Here is a short break from the sparse coding mayhem. A recent paper by some interesting folks appeared today on the arxiv. They ran some experiments on the Rainier-based system at USC. Here is some of...

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Sparse coding on D-Wave hardware: structured dictionaries

The underlying problem we saw last time, that prevented us from using the hardware to compete with tabu on the cloud, was the mismatch of the connectivity of the problems sparse coding generates (which...

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First ever head to head win in speed for a quantum computer

Update 5/9/2013: Here is an article about the result from Quentin Hardy at the New York Times. Here’s one from Tom Simonite at MIT Technology Review. One from Nicola Jones at Nature. Jacob Aron at New...

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