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The article offers information on the research related to determine the advantages of using quantum computer devices instead of supercomputers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It mentions that the quantum computers are used to perform calculations of matters at very small scales. It states that in computer science the fundamental information, bit is expressed as 0 and 1.

Reports on the success of physicist from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the preservation of light pulse. Importance of the discovery in the creation of quantum computers; Details of the research; Plans to further the research.

Reports that researchers at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard University have succeeded in bringing practical quantum computers one step closer to reality. Plan of the research group; One aspect that will be an automatic fallout of total quantum information-processing systems; Factor that attracted the funding of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. National Security Agency.

Provides an update on technology as of October 1999. Prototype quantum computer developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute Information of Technology in Cambridge; Specification of the Secure Digital Music Initiative for the distribution of digital recorded music via the Internet and other electronic media; Findings of a study by the National Electronics Council Research Institute concerning Internet search engines.