Quantum computing will not deliver truly useful business results overnight, but the pace of progress is no longer linear; ...

What is quantum technology? Quantum technology can process an enormous amount of data and solve complex problems in seconds ...

Organizations responsible for data security cannot afford to wait for quantum to arrive before building their defenses.

In 1994, MIT professor of applied mathematics Peter Shor developed a groundbreaking quantum computing algorithm capable of factoring numbers (that is, finding the prime numbers for any integer N ...

Peter Shor: My motivation was to see what you can do with a quantum computer. An earlier quantum algorithm worked by using periodicity—the tendency of some number sequences to regularly repeat.

Scott Aaronson, quantum computer expert, explains the most famous quantum computer algorithm using minimal math. 1. Find a property that is shared by all of possible answers which can be compared. For ...

The problem with the paper published earlier this month was its reliance on Schnorr's algorithm (not to be confused with Shor’s algorithm), which was developed in 1994.

That idea was flipped on its head in 1994 when Shor, then working at Bell Labs, introduced an algorithm which proved that a quantum computer could factor quickly enough to break RSA cryptography.

A quantum computer made of five trapped ions has been used by physicists in Austria and the US to implement Shor’s factoring algorithm. While the system performed the trivial task of factoring the ...