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A Market Ready to Explode

Posted: February 28th, 2016

By Robert Ewald

Robert "Bo" Ewald is the President of D-Wave U.S. and also heads up global customer operations.  Ewald brings a long history with other pioneering technology organizations to D-Wave. He was at visualization and HPC leader SGI twice, most recently as CEO, and had a number of roles at supercomputing leader Cray Research including President, COO and CTO. Mr. Ewald has participated on many industry and government panels and committees, including being appointed by the White House to the President's Information Technology Advisory Council.

Quantum computing is poised to usher in a new era in computing by allowing access to unprecedented speed and new problem solving capabilities. The Cipher Brief spoke to Robert Ewald, President of D-Wave U.S. – the only company currently selling functional quantum computers. He said that the quantum computing market is ready to explode, and that it can change how we approach everything from bioinformatics to finance.

The Cipher Brief: Quantum computing may be a new concept to some of our readers, could you briefly describe how a quantum computer differs from a conventional computer?

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