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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Demonstration of Blind Quantum Computing
<10> Originality: The first demonstration that quantum computers, besides offering substantial computation speedups, will also preserve the privacy of a computation.
Significance: Proves that quantum cloud is achievable in practice with current available technology i.e. basic quantum optical setting. More than fifty articles appeared in the media within a week of the publication of the paper, including http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16636580.
Rigour: The result has been described as “possibly the most exciting idea in quantum computing in the last 10 years,” in a March 2012 issue of PhysicsToday, and as “amazing” in a perspective article in Science in January 2012.