A shortcut through time: the path to the quantum computer (Record no. 566459)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780375411939
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 004.1
Cutter JOH
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Personal name Johnson, George
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Title A shortcut through time: the path to the quantum computer
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc Alfred A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2003
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xv, 204 pages: illustrations; 22 cm
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code 1572.00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Publisher's description: The first book to prepare us for the next big--perhaps the biggest--breakthrough in the short history of the cyberworld: the development of the quantum computer. The newest Pentium chip driving personal computers packs 40 million electronic switches onto a piece of silicon the size of a thumbnail. It is dramatically smaller and more powerful than anything that has come before it. If this incredible shrinking act continues, the logical culmination is a computer in which each switch is composed of a single atom. And at that point the miraculous--the actualization of quantum mechanics--becomes real. If atoms can be harnessed, society will be transformed: problems that could take forever to be solved on the supercomputers available today would be dispatched with ease. Quantum computing promises nothing less astonishing than a shortcut through time. In this book, the award-winning New York Times science writer George Johnson first takes us back to the original idea of a computer--almost simple enough to be made of Tinkertoys--and then leads us through increasing levels of complexity to the soul of this remarkable new machine. He shows us how, in laboratories around the world, the revolution has already begun. Writing with a brilliant clarity, Johnson makes sophisticated material on (and even beyond) the frontiers of science both graspable and utterly fascinating, affording us a front-row seat at one of the most galvanizing scientific dramas of the new century."
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Quantum computers
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     General Book Symbiosis Institute of Business Management - Hyderabad Symbiosis Institute of Business Management - Hyderabad General 27/01/2016 World Book Links 1572.00 004.1 JOH SIBMH-B-4411 13/12/2023 Books