Oedipus explains the riddle of the Sphinx, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, c. 1805. Oedipus (US /Ëidáµ»pÉs/ or /ËÉdáµ»pÉs/ or UK /ËiËdáµ»pÉs/; Ancient Greek: Î¿á¼°Î´Î¯ÏÎ¿ÏÏ OidÃ­pous meaning swollen foot) was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.
The quantum computing technology developed by D-Wave gets ongoing scientific debate, but it's also getting money, $28 million last week, bringing its total funding to about $150 million. This Canadian company was started 15 years ago and is one of the most tenacious and longest-running tech start-ups around.
Quantum computers share theoretical similarities with non-deterministic and probabilistic computers. The field of quantum computing was initiated by the work of Paul Benioff and Yuri Manin in 1980, Richard Feynman in 1982, and David Deutsch in 1985. A quantum computer with spins as quantum bits was also formulated for use as a quantum spaceâtime in 1968.