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This presentation will briefly introduce the ideas behind quantum mechanics and its possible application in quantum sensing, communication and computing. We’ll then discuss the ideas and principles that have enabled the world’s first quantum computers. We’ll briefly review the technologies and architectures, then dive a little more deeply into how the D-Wave quantum annealing computer works. We’ll survey the “proto-applications” that customers have been developing in areas of optimization, machine learning and material science that point the way to production use of quantum computers in the next few years. Finally, we’ll discuss some of the future directions of quantum computing.