UGA Scientists Get $2M Federal Grant

ATHENS, Ga.  – The University of Georgia has received a $2
million grant to work on designing a new computer that can more
rapidly solve problems in such fields as cryptography, mathematics
and physics.

UGA’s Michael Geller – along with two other UGA researchers and
John Martinis of the University of California, Santa Barbara – will
try to create the world’s first quantum computer. The money is from
the National Science Foundation.

It puts the scientists in the middle of an international race to
design and build the first quantum computer, which can break
complex codes and solve complicated mathematical and engineering
problems.