Sentences with phrase «of conventional computers»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

«The computer image is still created with conventional methods, then we modify it with our SSSS - technique, improving the appearance of the surfaces.»

«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.»

A team led by Shree K. Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, has developed a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that can not be taken with one or more conventional cameras.

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

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.

This would allow a universal quantum computer to be millions of times faster than any conventional computer when solving a range of important problems.

Studies that demonstrate embodied cognition seem to defy conventional wisdom, which paints thought as a set of computer - like algorithms that unfold entirely within the skull.

D - Wave system shows quantum computers can learn to detect particle signatures in mountains of data, but doesn't outpace conventional methods — yet

Furthermore, the conventional cameras mounted on drones work only when there is a high amount of light available, and the drone's speed has to be limited otherwise the resulting image is motion - blurred and can not be used by computer vision algorithms.

Now a team led by Matthias Troyer of ETH Zurich in Switzerland has tested a D - Wave Two computer against a conventional machine running an optimised algorithm — and found no evidence of superior performance in the quantum device.

Although still orders of magnitude slower than conventional computers, bubble logic can operate about 100 times faster than existing microfluidic chips, the researchers say.

Reporting in today's issue of Science, Gershenfeld and colleagues describe how they designed the new technology using the presence or absence of a sequence of bubbles as a substitute for the conventional «on» or «off» binary language of computer circuits.

Both of these computers use superconducting qubits built using techniques from the conventional computer chip industry.

So where a conventional computer uses 1s and 0s to make calculations, the fundamental units of a quantum computer could be 1s and 0s at the same time.

In conventional magnetic memory, such as that in a computer, or the magnetic strip of a credit card, the memory is read by «reading» the magnetization of the memory bit.

Intelligent Hybrid Systems is an edited collection of articles about computer systems that tries to combine the best of conventional programming with neural networks, genetic algorithms and other nonsymbolic methods.

«There is an enormous gap between demonstrating some kind of quantum effect in eight qubits, as they have done here, and saying that they have a 128 - qubit chip that can perform a computationally interesting task faster than a conventional computer,» he says.

«In contrast to conventional electronics, we developed an all - optical scheme for controlling individual quantum bits in semiconductors using pulses of light,» said David Awschalom, director of UCSB's Center for Spintronics & Quantum Computation, professor of physics and of electrical and computer engineering, and the Peter J. Clarke director of the California NanoSystems Institute.

SideWays uses a conventional video camera and a computer vision program the team developed, which finds your pupils by recognising the corners of your eyes and where they sit relative to your face.

In a conventional computer, information is made up of bits, composed of 0's and 1's.

Whereas a conventional telescope commonly has a mirror or lens shaped like a parabola to concentrate the light it gathers onto a point, the lens at Haystack is a 6 - foot - high stack of computers.

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.

Manufacturers build computer processors and most other conventional electronics from rigid wafers of crystalline silicon.

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.

Being able to study quantum systems with a large number of components — or «qubits,» as they are often called — also has important implications for future quantum technologies, as Carleo points out: «If we want to test quantum computers with more than a handful of qubits, that won't be possible with conventional means because of the exponential scaling.

According to first author Dr Rafael Alexander, engineering conventional interferometers that comprise hundreds or even thousands of optical elements is a daunting but important task that is essential to implementing fully - functional optical quantum computers.

So for decades engineers have tried to accelerate the pace of conventional, electricity - based computer chips by melding them with laser - based signal processors (like those used to send Internet data blazing through fiber - optic cables).

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 new chips have the potential to be orders of magnitude more efficient than a conventional computer, according to Rajit Manohar, an electrical and computer engineer at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and member of the DARPA collaboration.

«An analogy from conventional computing hardware would be that we have finally worked out how to build a transistor with good enough performance to make logic circuits, but the technology for wiring thousands of those transistors together to build an electronic computer is still in its infancy.»

The idea is that the film, when applied to different surfaces such as glass or brick, can produce solar energy more efficiently than conventional silicon wafer — based solar cells — which are made of materials similar to those used to fabricate computer chips.

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.

Using computer modeling, optimization software and complex algorithms, the team set out to build metadevices that could bend or focus millimeter waves but that avoided problems with conventional approaches, such low efficiency, narrow bandwidth and the bulkiness of the devices.

A more conventional setup consists of a long rectangular sensor bar containing lights and cameras placed in front of — or embedded in — a computer monitor that measures where and how long a person gazes at the screen.

Conventional computers can already use sophisticated algorithms to recognize patterns in images, but it takes lots of memory and processor power.

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.

Instead of using conventional computer - aided design (CAD) software to draw thousands of individual hairs on a computer — a step that would take hours to compute — the team built a new software platform, called «Cilllia,» that lets users define the angle, thickness, density, and height of thousands of hairs, in just a few minutes.

This can be done on a conventional computer using fancy math, but Severa's method uses the massively parallel nature of neurons to calculate all the possible shifts efficiently, he said.

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.

In one set of recent tests, the D - Wave One was slower than a conventional computer.

For these researchers, looking for ways to least delay decoherence — thereby preserving the state of superposition that makes quantum computers so much faster than their conventional counterparts — is a key goal.

Internet dating enables that you should eliminate all of the frantic conventional methods a couple of quick questionnaires and also the computer will pull - up an incredible choice of people it thinks is going to be suitable for.

Loosely based on Walter Isaacson's best - selling biography with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin («The Social Network»), Danny Boyle's («127 Hours») Steve Jobs is not a conventional biopic of the famous co-founder of Apple Computers but is more like an impressionist painting — short strokes of paint that capture the essence of the subject rather than...

Jonze's handling of his jump - off premise — a man falling in love with his computer operating system — defies anything movies train viewers to expect from such ripe - for - folly concepts.Yet in its heart where it matters, Her is also as conventional a movie romance as any.

isn't quite as other - worldly gorgeous as those two earlier films (they're the only two other features I've seen from Shinkai), its combination of hand - drawn, computer and rotoscoped animation is a little more conventional, just as its plot and approach to narrative is a little more familiar.