Technology Focus: Does Big Bucks Research Pay the Right Dividend?
One day earlier this year, a group of IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers proved for a millisecond that quantum computing is feasible. That experiment proved there will be quantum computers within our lifetime, IBM's Manager of Physics of Information said last week.
That researcher, physicist Mark Ketchen, and other members of the team must have felt somewhat like another group of physicists at Chicago's Stagg Field in December 1942, when they achieved the first self-sustaining chain reaction.