Lockheed Martin wants to use a quantum computer to develop radar, aircraft systems

Reblogged from GigaOM:

Lockheed Martin(s lmt) is looking at several challenging applications for the quantum-computing hardware it has purchased from from D-Wave Systems, the New York Times reported Friday. The use of quantum computing is a big deal because as we depend more on computing, we're going to need different types of processors. Lockheed's commercial use suggests that the probabilistic problem-solving approach and breakneck speed of quantum computing could be more widely adopted in the near future.

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