{"id":152385,"date":"2022-12-10T09:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T15:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/engineers-push-probabilistic-computing-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2022-12-10T09:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T15:25:58","slug":"engineers-push-probabilistic-computing-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/engineers-push-probabilistic-computing-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"Engineers Push Probabilistic Computing Closer to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-push-probabilistic-computing-closer-to-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large universal quantum computer is still an engineering dream, but machines designed to leverage quantum effects to solve specific classes of problems\u2014such as D-wave\u2019s computers\u2014are alive and well. But an unlikely rival could challenge these specialized machines: computers built from purposely noisy parts.<\/p>\n<p>This week at the IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee-iedm.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">IEDM 2022<\/a>), engineers unveiled several advances that bring a large-scale probabilistic computer closer to reality than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers are unrivaled for any algorithm that relies on quantum\u2019s complex amplitudes. \u201cBut for problems where the numbers are positive, sometimes called stochastic problems, probabilistic computing could be quite competitive,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ECE\/People?resource_id=3286&group_id=2571\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Supriyo Datta, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University<\/a> and one of the pioneers of probabilistic computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large universal quantum computer is still an engineering dream, but machines designed to leverage quantum effects to solve specific classes of problems\u2014such as D-wave\u2019s computers\u2014are alive and well. But an unlikely rival could challenge these specialized machines: computers built from purposely noisy parts. This week at the IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM 2022), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152385","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}