that actually has had the bravado to claim such a demonstration
is Canadian firm D-Wave Systems, Inc. which is based out of
Barnaby, British Columbia. The company has developed what it
claims to be working 16-qubit, 28-qubit, and 128-qubit quantum
computer chips. Each qubit is implemented with a magnetically
coupling superconducting loop called rf-squid flux. The company
has fabricated some of these chips at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Lab’s microdevices lab in Pasadena and NASA scientists who saw
the work firsthand back its credibility, despite widespread
doubts in the research community. Now D-Wave has received an
even bigger endorsement, from the world's largest internet firm:
Google. Google manager Hartmut Neven announced in a blog post
last week that his company had been working with D-Wave to
develop quantum computers to power a search of still images in a
database of images, video, and PDFs. The project has been
ongoing for three years according to Mr. Neven. elaborating,
"Over the past three years a team at