Microsoft's next big bet? Clue: it's just hired four top quantum computing scientists

#Microsoft has hired a handful of top scientists to accelerate its program to develop quantum computing, as it steps up competition in the field with #IBM and #Google. Microsoft has hired four top physicists to join a #quantumcomputing project being led by Todd Holmdahl, a Microsoft hardware veteran who's helped develop Microsoft's #Xbox and #Kinect gaming devices, and the soon-to-be-released augmented reality headset, $HoloLens. Holmdahl will be joined by quantum-computing leaders Leo Kouwenhoven from Delft University and Charles Marcus from the University of Copenhagen, as well as David Reilly, an experimental physicist from Sydney University, and Mattias Troyer, a professor of computational physics at ETH Zurich. Microsoft is betting on an approach to quantum computing known as topological design, centered on the topological qubit.

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