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Google Announces Results From Two Years of Testing on Quantum Computers Made by Harris & Harris Group Portfolio Company, D-Wave Systems

NEW YORK, Dec. 09, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TINY ), an investor in transformative companies enabled by disruptive science, notes that yesterday NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) hosted a tour of the jointly run Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory located at the NASA’s Ames Research Center which houses one of D-Wave’s 1,097-qubit D-Wave 2X TM quantum computers.   At this event, Google announced that D-Wave’s quantum computer was able to find solutions to complicated problems of nearly 1,000 variables up to 10 8 (100,000,000) times faster than classical computers. 

You may read Google’s full discussion of these results at http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2015/12/whe...g-win.html .

We are also excited to note that Google’s announcement was profiled in multiple articles published online following the event.  The following link provides a list of such articles on Google’s news search platform: https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=dZiX84...cQqgIILDAB .

About Harris & Harris Group

Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital firm that is also a business development company.  Detailed information about Harris & Harris Group and its holdings can be found on its website at www.HHVC.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/harrisharrisvc and by following on Twitter @harrisandharrisgroup .

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