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System to be Installed at NASA's Ames Research Center, and Operational in Q3 BURNABY, British Columbia and PALO ALTO, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Wave Systems Inc., the world's first commercial quantum computing company, today announced that its new 512-qubit quantum computer, the D-Wave Two, will be installed at the new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a collaboration among NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). The purpose...
BURNABY, British Columbia and PALO ALTO, Calif., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Wave Systems Inc., the world's first commercial quantum computing company, today announced the formal launch of its U.S. business. Industry expert and supercomputing veteran, Robert "Bo" Ewald will lead the U.S. business as President and will head up global customer operations as the company's Chief Revenue Officer. New offices and R&D facilities have opened in Palo Alto, California and others are...
BURNABY, British Columbia and PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Wave Systems, Inc., the world's first commercial quantum computing company, today announced that Silicon Valley corporate technology leader, Steven M. Cakebread has accepted key roles with the company, as chief financial officer and chief administrative officer. "We are very pleased that Steve has chosen to join us," stated Vern Brownell, D-Wave president and chief executive officer. "He brings proven...
BURNABY, British Columbia and MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Wave Systems, Inc. today announced that it has closed a $30 million round of equity funding. Bezos Expeditions and In-Q-Tel (IQT) have joined the investment round. Bezos Expeditions is the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos. IQT is the strategic investment firm that delivers innovative technology solutions in support of the missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community. "We are pleased to have...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PiCloud, the leader in providing easy access to conventional computing power on the cloud, and D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in commercial quantum computing technology, have announced a formal development partnership. Projects are underway to integrate the two companies' technologies. "PiCloud is a cloud computing platform dedicated to giving every developer, scientist, and engineer in the world a supercomputer at their fingertips,"...
BURNABY, British Columbia and MILPITAS, Calif., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Wave Systems Inc., the world's first commercial quantum computing company, today announced that quantum computing expert Dr. Colin P. Williams has accepted a role with the company. Serving in a variety of capacities, his title will be Director, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships. Dr. Williams authored Explorations in Quantum Computing in 1999, one of the first textbooks on the subject....
MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Oct. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- USC; Lockheed Martin, Inc.; and D-Wave Systems, Inc. will officially unveil the first commercial and operational quantum computer academic center at USC Viterbi School of Engineering's WHAT: Information Sciences Institute. WHO: Dr. Ray Johnson, CTO, Lockheed Martin Dr. Daniel Lidar, Director, USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center Dr. Geordie...
BERKELEY, CA -- Researchers in the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have simulated the process by which a quantum computer could calculate to high precision an important basic property of two small molecules. Simulated quantum calculations of the ground-state energies of water (H 2O) and lithium hydride (LiH) are the first of this kind ever done for specific molecules. Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Anthony Dutoi, Peter Love,...
