27 Milestones In The History Of Quantum Computing

This was later perceived as a rallying cry for developing a quantum computer, leading to today's rapid progress in the search for quantum supremacy. The race for quantum supremacy is on, to being able to demonstrate a practical quantum device that can solve a problem that no classical computer can solve in any feasible amount of time. Speed--and sustainability--has always been the measure of the jump to the next stage of computing. In 1944, Richard Feynman, then a junior staff member at Los Alamos, organized a contest between human computers and the Los Alamos IBM facility, with both performing a calculation for the plutonium bomb. For two days, the human computers kept up with the machines.