Waiting for the great quantum leap forward
By GRANT BUCKLER
Special to The Globe and Mail. With files from AP
Thursday, October 14, 2004, Page B12
It
could revolutionize drug research and make the cryptographic codes used
to protect today's most sensitive information seem as easy to solve as
a child's crossword puzzle. For now, though, researchers just want to
get quantum computing past the laboratory stage and -- at least in the
private sector -- start making money from it.
