Daniel Lidar

Medieval hi-tech or the computing holy grail by Richard

Daniel build quantum computers, Yes the most complex ones. Daniel is professor of electrical engineering, chemistry, and physics and the Director and co-founder of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology, and holds four U.S. patents in the area of quantum computing...

Daniel Lidar

Daniel Lidar

Daniel Amihud Lidar is one of the smartest computer wizards in a pair of snickers, playing with some funky computers at the University of Southern California.

A classical computer stores a single “bit” of information. If the transistor is “on” it holds a “1” If it’s “off” it holds a “0” that's it. With quantum computer, information is held in a system that can exist in two states at the same time called “qubit”, thanks to what’s called the superposition principle of quantum mechanics. This “qubit” can store a “0″ and “1″ simultaneously. If you build two qubits, they can hold four values at once — 00, 01, 10, and 11. As you tack on additional qubits, you can fashion a machine exponentially more powerful than a classical computer.

Quantum computing may help solve some of the most challenging science problems... Google bought one.