D-WAVE Quantum Computer. Photo: D-WAVE Systems, Inc. Quantum computing is on the verge of providing big data analysis for customers but exploration of the technology’s potential is still in progress, according to Brad Pietras, vice president for technology at Lockheed Martin [LMT]. The current state of quantum computing is akin to “looking at a transistor in 1950 and speculating about what an iPod would look like,” Pietras said in an interview yesterday. Quantum computing offers the possibility of processing big…
