Finance committee  Absolutely. We should. At the stage we are now at as a company, it's probably a little bit early for us, but it's absolutely the kind of organization or caucus that we would like to participate in.

Finance committee  I think part of it is the U.S. is home to global companies like Google, for instance, a customer of ours, and NASA, and organizations of that kind that had the scale and risk appetite for getting involved in technology very early. I think our economy, our industry and our commer

Finance committee  I think it is. I think it's also related to the fact that with regard to the researchers we tend to fund, a lot of it is theoretical and not practical in nature. Certainly those sorts of researchers are of paramount importance, but what we're asking for is more funding of applied

Finance committee  Warren is most familiar with the supercluster, so I'm going to turn it over to him.

Finance committee  Yes, you hit upon one of the most important application areas for our technology, and one I'm personally most excited about. It's the use of this for health care and bioinformatics. We've already done work with the Vancouver Prostate Centre on trying to come up with some intere

Finance committee  There are many universities across Canada that do fundamental research in quantum computing, and they're an extremely valuable resource for us. We're the only commercial company in the world, so we're the only company that has the capability to provide a quantum computer that can

Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. My name is Vern Brownell, and I'm the CEO and president of D-Wave Systems. I'm here with my colleague Warren Wall, who's our EVP of corporate affairs. Both Warren and I are delighted to be here today to discuss with you