Microsoft Bets Big on Quantum Computing

Microsoft has hired several of the world’s foremost quantum computing experts, doubling down on the effort to build a machine that could solve complex problems much more quickly than a digital computer. Microsoft hardware guru Todd Holdmdahl will lead a research team focused on using a unit of quantum information called a topological qubit to…

Quantum Computing 101

Who needs a real quantum computer to start writing code?  While there is no working quantum computer in production, the belief that a working version will exist soon has prompted Microsoft Research’s QuArC team to build a new quantum computer simulator called LIQUi|>.  The researchers are hoping that, using LIQUi|>, computer scientists at Microsoft and other…