Behold your computer. Your computer represents the culmination of years of technological
advancements beginning with the early ideas of Charles Babbage (1791-1871) and …

Taking readers to the cutting edge of physics, mathematics, and computer science, Julian
Brown tells the dramatic story of the groundbreaking efforts to create a fundamentally new …

In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing
frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson …

This book about quantum computing is mostly addressed to non-specialists: physicists and
engineers, university and high school students, as well as to anybody who might be …

According to the paper, the device, in three minutes, had performed a highly technical and
specialized computation that would have taken a regular computer 10,000 years to work out …

For the last fifty years computers have grown faster, smaller, and more powerful—
transforming and benefiting our society in ways too numerous to count. But like any …

In classical computers, information is represented as the binary digits 0 or 1. These are
called bits. For example, the number 1 in an 8-bit binary representation is written as …

The word'quantum'comes from the Latin word quantus meaning'how much'. Quantum
computing is a fundamentally new mode of information processing that can be performed …

Computers today become faster by becoming smaller. By reducing the size of transistors,
engineers are able to fit more of them on a given size microprocessor, thus increasing the …