{"id":103438,"date":"2020-03-07T21:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/could-quantum-computing-help-beat-the-next-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-07T21:22:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T05:22:23","slug":"could-quantum-computing-help-beat-the-next-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/could-quantum-computing-help-beat-the-next-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Could quantum computing help beat the next coronavirus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-quantum-computing-help-beat-the-next-coronavirus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing isn\u2019t yet far enough along that it could have helped curb the spread of this coronavirus outbreak. But this emerging field of computing will almost certainly help scientists and researchers confront future crises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we compress the rate at which we discover, for example, a treatment or an approach to this?\u201d asks Dario Gil, the director of IBM Research. \u201cThe goal is to do everything that we are doing today in terms of discovery of materials, chemistry, things like that, (in) factors of 10 times better, 100 times better,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that, he says, \u201ccould be game-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computing isn\u2019t yet far enough along that it could have helped curb the spread of this coronavirus outbreak. But this emerging field of computing will almost certainly help scientists and researchers confront future crises. \u201cCan we compress the rate at which we discover, for example, a treatment or an approach to this?\u201d asks Dario [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}