'Holy Grail' Of Computing

Scientists Hail Latest Quantum Computer As 'Holy Grail' of Computing (+Podcast, ~14 min.)

Elizabeth Hockman | March 29, 2016

Engineers and computer scientists are continually updating computers, making them faster, more powerful.
But a group of researchers have come up with new type of a quantum computer. It’s a device that harnesses the strange laws of physics to solve problems more complex than any our current computers are capable of tackling.
This quantum computer, according to a paper just published in the journal Science, is composed of just five atoms. And particularly exciting for researchers: they believe it is easily scalable to larger versions. 

MIT Scientist Developed A Scalable Quantum Computer. Source: http://www.albanydailystar.com/science/mit-scientist-developed-a-scalable-quantum-computers-anaheim-daily-science-17294.html

<more at http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-29/scientists-just-created-holy-grail-computing-first-quantum-computer; related articles and links: http://news.mit.edu/2016/quantum-computer-end-encryption-schemes-0303 (The beginning of the end for encryption schemes? New quantum computer, based on five atoms, factors numbers in a scalable way. March 3, 2016) and http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-just-developed-the-most-complex-quantum-computer-chip-so-far-out-of-light (Researchers have built the most complex light-based quantum computer chip ever. Bring on quantum computers that process data at the speed of light. March 14, 2016)>