NRC has recently launched a new Applied Quantum Computing Challenge program, led by Phil Kaye. I attended a number of his talks on the subject over the summer and can say, based on what I saw, that quantum computing is (a) a real thing, and (b) potentially useful. This article highlights the commercial possibilities of quantum computing. "The biggest promise of such computers," write the authors, "lies in solving large combinatorics problems.... combinatorics problems ask the question 'how many ways can this set of objects be combined?'" Which (surprise!) takes us straight into graph theory. Now while this work is all beyond what I've studied thus far (an advanced degree in mathematics would be helpful) I am nonetheless led to speculated about the possibility of quantum learning theories in neural networks, and hence, new ways of looking at learning in general. Alas, I do not have a second lifetime to devote to this...
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