In a Q&A in Popular Science, SFI External Professor and Science Board member Seth Lloyd talks about the inner workings and future capabilities of quantum computers.
Lloyd is Director of MIT’s Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory.
Today's quantum computers feature close to a dozen "qubits." Tomorrow's could help model much more complex problems that is currently possible, he says -- or search vast data stores quickly and with complete security and anonymity: a sort of quantum Googling.
Read the Popular Science interview (Nov. 4, 2011)