On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote:
> On 11/29/2017 3:13 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > >> And so now IBM is pushing Cognitive computing, and talking about Quantum >> computing. >> > > > All those things you name were steps along the road. > > > You should take a look at Quantum Computing before you dismiss it. Do you have any _good_ web sites? I find it interesting, but it appears mainly to address highly parallel processing. I have trouble trying to figure out how it is going to allow payroll to run more efficiently (be that faster or cheaper). I can see it doing cryptography, or especially breaking same. Or protein folding. > > > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > universe > www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - > Carl Sagan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
