{"id":19305,"date":"2015-11-13T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T23:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/google-reportedly-planning-a-watershed-quantum-computing-announcement-for-december-8"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:24:22","slug":"google-reportedly-planning-a-watershed-quantum-computing-announcement-for-december-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/google-reportedly-planning-a-watershed-quantum-computing-announcement-for-december-8","title":{"rendered":"Google reportedly planning a \u2018watershed\u2019 quantum computing announcement for December 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-reportedly-planning-a-watershed-quantum-computing-announcement-for-december-8.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>According to Steve Jurvetson, venture capitalist and board member at pioneer quantum computing company D-WAVE (as well as others, such as Tesla and SpaceX), Google has what may be a \u201cwatershed\u201d quantum computing announcement scheduled for early next month. This comes as D-WAVE, which notably also holds the Mountain View company as a customer, has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/press-releases\/los-alamos-national-laboratory-orders-1000-qubit-d-wave-2x-quantum-computer\">sold<\/a> a 1000+ Qubit 2X quantum computer to national security research institution Los Alamos\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not exactly clear what this announcement will be (besides important for the future of computing), but Jurvetson says to \u201cstay tuned\u201d for more information coming on December 8th. This is the first we\u2019ve heard of a December 8th date for a Google announcement, and considering its purported potential to be a turning point in computing, this could perhaps mean an actual event is in the cards.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Google earlier this year <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2015\/09\/28\/google-nasa-quantum-computer\/\">entered a new deal<\/a> with NASA and D-WAVE to continue its research in quantum computing. D-WAVE\u2019s press release at the time had this to say:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/9to5google.com\/2015\/11\/11\/google-planning-a-watershed-quantum-computing-announcement-december-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting\u2026 According to Steve Jurvetson, venture capitalist and board member at pioneer quantum computing company D-WAVE (as well as others, such as Tesla and SpaceX), Google has what may be a \u201cwatershed\u201d quantum computing announcement scheduled for early next month. This comes as D-WAVE, which notably also holds the Mountain View company as a customer, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19305","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63705,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19305\/revisions\/63705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}