{"id":13529,"date":"2015-02-22T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13529"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:02:01","slug":"how-nasa-uses-quantum-computing-for-space-travel-and-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/how-nasa-uses-quantum-computing-for-space-travel-and-robotics","title":{"rendered":"How NASA uses quantum computing for space travel and robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"by\"><span class=\"author-container\"><span class=\"vcard\"><a class=\"url fn\" title=\"Posts by Jonathan Vanian\" href=\"http:\/\/search.gigaom.com\/author\/jonathanvanian\/\" rel=\"author\">Jonathan Vanian<\/a><\/span><\/span> \u2014 GigaOM<\/div>\n<div class=\"by\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"by\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Quantum computing is still in its infancy, even though the idea of a quantum computer was developed some <a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2015\/02\/13\/how-nasa-uses-quantum-computing-for-space-travel-and-robotics\/:\/\/math.jacobs-university.de\/events\/Spring2003\/colloquium\/abstract-2003-03-17.html\">thirty years ago<\/a>. But there are a whole load of pioneering organizations (<a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/09\/02\/google-is-trying-to-build-its-own-quantum-computing-processors\/\">like Google<\/a>) that are exploring how this potentially revolutionary technology could help them solve complex problems that modern-day computers just aren\u2019t capable of doing at any useful speed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">One such organization is NASA, whose use of D-Wave Systems <a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2015\/01\/29\/quantum-computing-gets-some-love-with-d-wave-taking-in-29m\/\">quantum computing machines<\/a> is helping it research better and safer methods of space travel, air traffic controls and missions involving sending robots to far-off places, explained <a href=\"https:\/\/events.gigaom.com\/structuredata-2015\/speaker\/davide-venturelli\/?utm_source=data&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=intext&amp;utm_term=914746+how-nasa-uses-quantum-computing-for-space-travel-and-robotics&amp;utm_content=jonathanvanian\">Davide Venturelli<\/a>, a science operations manager at NASA Ames Research Center, Universities Space Research Association. I\u2019ll be speaking with Venturelli on stage at <a href=\"https:\/\/events.gigaom.com\/structuredata-2015?utm_source=data&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=intext&amp;utm_term=914746+how-nasa-uses-quantum-computing-for-space-travel-and-robotics&amp;utm_content=jonathanvanian\">Structure Data 2015<\/a> from March 18\u201319 in New York City and we\u2019ll be sure to cover how NASA envisions the future of quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2015\/02\/13\/how-nasa-uses-quantum-computing-for-space-travel-and-robotics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Vanian \u2014 GigaOM Quantum computing is still in its infancy, even though the idea of a quantum computer was developed some thirty years ago. But there are a whole load of pioneering organizations (like Google) that are exploring how this potentially revolutionary technology could help them solve complex problems that modern-day computers just aren\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64824,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529\/revisions\/64824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}