Sentences with phrase «conventional computers»

This allows them to far surpass conventional computers in certain tasks.

Conventional computer bits represent either a one or a zero.

Such a technology would perform calculations using the laws of quantum mechanics, making for computers much faster than conventional computers at certain tasks such as database searches and code - breaking.

It turns out that this quantum - mechanical way of manipulating information gives quantum computers the ability to solve certain problems far more efficiently than any conceivable conventional computer.

The trade - offs that have evolved in humans could not be more different from those that engineers made in designing conventional computers, however.

Conventional computers attack problems one step at a time.

He explains that by disguising data with number strings more complex than the 0s and 1s conventional computers use to operate, the generalized knapsack offers a viable security method for defending against quantum computing hacks.

Then, Emily Conover investigates the latest progress in the race toward «quantum supremacy,» the point, coming soon, when quantum computers will surpass conventional computers for solving certain types of problems.

This has led to Ethereum being described as «The World Computer» where just like with conventional computers the potential uses depend in part on the creativity of its users.

«One way to know is by understanding how electrons move around in these materials so we can develop new ways of manipulating them — for example, with light instead of electrical current as conventional computers do.»

Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure, said that the new microchip, called the Tensor Processing Unit, is built to handle a variety of machine learning tasks, but is not intended to replace more conventional computer chips like CPUs and GPUs.

Working, whether it's on a presentation for your boss or a paper for your professor, is very different on a tablet than it is on a more conventional computer.

Memristor circuits are different from conventional computer circuits because they contain materials that, when hit with a specific voltage, can re-arrange their internal atomic composition.

D - Wave has been criticized over the years by some academics who say its machines aren't true quantum computers, but high - performance conventional computers with some quantum characteristics.

The technology giant said Thursday that several companies and universities have joined its initiative to create practical uses for quantum computing, a nascent technology that researchers believe could eventually surpass conventional computers in speed and power.

Because quantum particles can exist in multiple states at the same time, they could be used to carry out many calculations at once, factoring a 300 - digit number in just seconds compared to the years required by conventional computers.

Unlike conventional computers» bits, which can be in states of only 0 or 1, quantum computers rely on quantum bits, or qubits, that can be teased into combinations, or «superpositions,» of both 0 and 1.

In experiments, the circuit quickly computed complex data from images and video using far less energy than in conventional computer circuits.

Rupak Biswas, deputy director of exploration technology at NASA Ames, likened the state of quantum computing to the early development of conventional computers during the 1930s and 40s.

Storing information — and storing light for longer intervals — will be essential for the advancement of quantum computing, which could process light - stored data far more efficiently than current conventional computers.

One such quandary is called computer vision, the process of programming machines to recognize objects in images, something conventional computers don't do very well.

Based in Burnaby, B.C., D - Wave is the world's first commercial quantum computing company, and Neven called Rose, the operation's chief technology officer, because quantum computers have important strengths conventional computers lack.

Senior author Jelena Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, has been working for years to develop various nanoscale lasers and quantum technologies that might help conventional computers communicate faster and more efficiently using light instead of electricity.

«Slime mould can be used to perform all the logic functions that conventional computer hardware components can do,» says Gale.

Unlike the silicon chips inside conventional computers, the Bristol team's chip uses light rather than electricity.

Using the quantum property of superposition, quantum computers will be able to find target items within large piles of data far faster than conventional computers ever could.

But because electron spins offer one of the most promising models for quantum bitsphysical states that can store far more information than conventional computer bitsscientists have sought ways around the coherence problem.

The group finally said good - bye to the pesky equations they had been compelled to run, for months and months, using unwieldy software on energy - hogging conventional computers.

This is often useful for subtle tasks that people take for granted but conventional computers find hard to perform: understanding language, reading handwritten notes or identifying a category of objects in a messy data set, such as spotting cats in YouTube videos.

The D - Wave computer, marketed as a groundbreaking quantum machine that runs circles around conventional computers, solves problems no faster than an ordinary rival, a new test shows.

In contrast to conventional computer vision methods, which require humans to manually label thousands or even millions of images, building video prediction models only requires unannotated video, which can be collected by the robot entirely autonomously.

Conventional computer algorithms rely on programmers entering reams of rules and facts to guide the system's output.

When it comes to recognizing complex patterns or to decoding encrypted messages, conventional computers reach their limits.

Conventional computers represent information as...

«Conventional computers use the starting and stopping of electric currents at gates to communicate.

Compared with conventional computers, EPEAT - registered computers contain reduced levels of cadmium, lead, and mercury, toxic substances harmful to humans and the environment.

This pioneering new technique could pave the way to new, more powerful computers that combine computing and storage functions in one element — a move away from conventional computers that treat these two functions as separate.

Using the developed network, the researchers examined an associative memory operation, which is not readily executed by conventional computers.

Unlike conventional computers, which store each piece of data as a single value (either zero or one), quantum processors can take on multiple values simultaneously, which is why they are so efficient.

Working, whether it's on a presentation for your boss or a paper for your professor, is very different on a tablet than it is on a more conventional computer.

That's a far cry from the Pentium, but it's at least a first step towards actually building quantum computers, which in theory could far surpass conventional computers in certain applications.

In theory, quantum computers will be able in the blink of an eye to crunch through problems that would bog down a conventional computer for hours.

If you're a conventional computer, you would walk to the outside wall and feel along, inch by inch, until you found the door.

(McGeogh cautions that comparing the D - Wave to conventional computers with traditional metrics isn't even apples to oranges — more like apples to fish.)

For example, Google published a paper on Monday claiming that it had been able to perform a calculation with the technology that was significantly faster than what a conventional computer could crunch.

Nevertheless, Google (GOOG) and NASA are studying the machine to calculate complex problems that conventional computers have trouble doing quickly.

Breakthroughs in quantum computing have produced a machine capable of solving a problem 3,600 times faster than a conventional computer.

Quantum computers theoretically could be billions of times faster than conventional computers.

Those results, Lukin and colleagues said, could shed light on complex quantum mechanical phenomena that are all but impossible to model using conventional computers.

«Conventional computer - generated holograms are too big for electronic devices but our ultrathin hologram overcomes those size barriers,» Gu said.