Quantum Computing Made Simple(r), IBM Research Closer To First 'Practical' Machine

Aliens landing from Mars might have trouble working out what IBM is. The firm’s ‘About Us’ pages are fond of talking about the ‘Smarter Planet’ and its IBM Research home page kicks off with ‘The World Is Our Laboratory’ no less. Maybe it’s all a ruse to convince the Martians that IBM is in fact in control of Earth. In fact, IBM is an IT company with a heritage in both mainframes and desktop computing manufacturing with a new outlook on services and cloud computing.