Geordie Rose, whose company – D-Wave – built the world’s first commercial quantum computer, has been named to Foreign Policy Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list.
Also on this year’s list is Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX), Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Bezos not only shares the 2013 Top 100 Global Thinkers list with Rose, he also has a connection to D-Wave. Bezos is one of the company’s investors.
"The team at D-Wave has worked non-stop to make quantum computing a viable business solution,” said Rose, who is D-Wave’s founder and CTO. “This honor is a testament to the cross-disciplinary team we have at D-Wave, and I'm looking forward to another incredible year with the company."
Rose founded D-Wave in 1999. The company continues to face critics who question whether the $10 million computers D-Wave builds are actually using quantum computing.
But as detailed by Business in Vancouver, companies like Lockheed Martin, NASA and Google are taking the company seriously.
All have acquired D-Wave computers, which use principles of quantum physics for complex computations for things such as machine learning.
