Quantum Computing and Communications

Rating:
Summary: Pity about the typesetting
Review: A good book, but not professionally typeset,
which is a pity given that TeX has been around
for so long.
Good content, but not as perceptive as some
other books.

Rating:
Summary: Pity about the typesetting
Review: A good book, but not professionally typeset,
which is a pity given that TeX has been around
for so long.
Good content, but not as perceptive as some
other books.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best. A real intellectual treat.
Review: Michael Brooks does an excellent job of editing a summarization of quantum computing. It is by far the best book on none traditional computing I've read, and I've bought & read them all. The book is obviously intended for the public, it dispenses with deep mathematical formulae. Yet, it contains ample scientific information for the traditional computer scientist like myself.

If you enjoyed K. C. Cole's "The Universe and the Teacup" and/or "First You Build a Cloud", you will also enjoy "Quantum Computing and Communications".

He has distilled a vast amount of highly technical knowledge into an easily readable compilation; I enthusiastically read it during two flights and one airport delay. He presents the positive side but also gives due space to the pessimists of quantum computing. His inclusion of the economic perspective of quantum computing by R. Stanley Williams, Director of Basic Research for Hewlett Packard Laboratories, was a stroke of genius. When reading science literature I normally skip the economic "trivia" in favor of the more interesting "core". But this time I was so engrossed in what had already been read that I just kept right on reading and learned more than anticipated.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best. A real intellectual treat.
Review: Michael Brooks does an excellent job of editing a summarization of quantum computing. It is by far the best book on none traditional computing I've read, and I've bought & read them all. The book is obviously intended for the public, it dispenses with deep mathematical formulae. Yet, it contains ample scientific information for the traditional computer scientist like myself.

If you enjoyed K. C. Cole's "The Universe and the Teacup" and/or "First You Build a Cloud", you will also enjoy "Quantum Computing and Communications".

He has distilled a vast amount of highly technical knowledge into an easily readable compilation; I enthusiastically read it during two flights and one airport delay. He presents the positive side but also gives due space to the pessimists of quantum computing. His inclusion of the economic perspective of quantum computing by R. Stanley Williams, Director of Basic Research for Hewlett Packard Laboratories, was a stroke of genius. When reading science literature I normally skip the economic "trivia" in favor of the more interesting "core". But this time I was so engrossed in what had already been read that I just kept right on reading and learned more than anticipated.

Rating:
Summary: The best place to start...
Review: Michael Brooks's book is easily the best place to start if, like me, you want to more about quantum computing. There are good, basic introductions to mos aspects of the subject: the physics and the computer science. There are lectures by enthusiasts, and one by the sceptic, Rolf Landauer. In all, a very good thing for Michael Brooks to have done.