Quantum computing has been around for a while now. It’s been primarily a playground for physicists and computer scientists close to mathematics. The major issue was that the error rates and instability of the quantum bits prevented us from using this kind of paradigm on a larger scale (at least how I understand it).
Now, it seems that we are getting close to commercialization of this approach. Several companies are developing quantum chips that will allows us to use more of this technology in more fields.
The paper that I want to bring up today discusses what kind of challenges we, software engineers, can solve in quantum computing – and it is not programming. We need to work more on requirements, architecture, reuse of software and quality of it. So, basically the typical software engineering aspects.
BTW: On the 12th of December, we have a workshop on Quantum Computing in Software center – Reporting workshop: The end of Software Engineering – as we know it – Software Center
