Quantum Computation (the most massively parallel processor?)
Dr John Snowdon
Wednesday 14 March 2001. 6.45pm
Apex European Hotel, Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh
NB Changed Venue & later start
Quantum computation has been hailed both as a method of
unimaginably increasing computing resources and as a means of
understanding certain aspects of he quantum theory itself. As a
means of computation there are both theoretical and technological
problems in abundance. It is difficult to build and operate quantum
gates (especially in any manner that appears scalable) and it is
not easy to see how such gates can give a large performance
increase over anything other than a small range of problems.
Despite this, interest in the subject is high, and the possibilities for
demanding new research are good in both the engineering and
computer science communities.