coondoggie sends this excerpt from NetworkWorld: “The US Army Research Office and the National Security Bureau (NSA) are together looking for some answers to their quantum physics questions. … The Army said quantum algorithms that are developed should focus on constructive solutions [PDF] for specific tasks, and on general methodologies for expressing and examining algorithms tailored to specific problems — though they didn’t say what those specific tasks were … ‘Investigators should presuppose the existence of a fully functional quantum personal and think about what algorithmic tasks are particularly well suited to such a machine. A necessary component of this research will be to compare the efficiency of the quantum algorithm to the ideal existing classical algorithm for the same problem.’”
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