Feynman and computation : exploring the limits of computers
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Feynman and computation : exploring the limits of computers
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Perseus, c1999
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A tribute to Feynman and a new exploration of the limits of computers by some of todays most influential scientists.. }Richard P. Feynman made profoundly important and prescient contributions to the physics of computing, notably with his seminal articles Theres Plenty of Room at the Bottom and Simulating Physics with Computers. These two provocative papers (both reprinted in this volume) anticipated, decades before their time, several breakthroughs that have since become fields of science in their own right, such as nanotechnology and the newest, perhaps most exciting area of physics and computer science, quantum computing.The contributors to this book are all distinguished physicists and computer scientists, and many of them were guest lecturers in Feynmans famous CalTech course on the limits of computers. they include Charles Bennett on Quantum Information Theory, Geoffrey Fox on Internetics, Norman Margolus on Crystalline Computation, and Tommaso Toffoli on the Fungibility of Computation.
Both a tribute to Feynman and a new exploration of the limits of computers by some of todays most influential scientists, Feynman and Computation continues the pioneering work started by Feynman and published by him in his own Lectures on Computation. This new computation volume consists of both original chapters and reprints of classic papers by leaders in the field. Feynman and Computation will generate great interest from the scientific community and provide essential background for further work in this field. }
Table of Contents
- Feynmans Course On Computation
- Feynman and Computation (John J. Hopfield)
- Neural Networks and Physical Systems with Emergent Collective Computational Abilities (John J. Hopfield)
- Feynman as a Colleague (Carver A. Mead)
- Collective Electrodynamics I (Carver A. Mead)
- A Memory (Gerald Jay Sussman)
- Numerical Evidence That the Motion of Pluto Is Chaotic (Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom)
- Reducing The Size
- Theres Plenty of Room at the Bottom (Richard P. Feynman)
- Information Is Inevitably Physical (Rolf Landauer)
- Scaling of MOS Technology to Submicrometer Feature Sizes (Carver A. Mead)
- Richard Feynman and Cellular Vacuum (Marvin Minsky)
- Quantum Limits
- Simulating Physics with Computers (Richard P. Feynman)
- Quantum Robots (Paul Benioff)
- Quantum Information Theory (Charles H. Bennett)
- Quantum Computation (Richard J. Hughes)
- Parallel Computation
- Computing Machines in the Future (Richard P. Feynman)
- Internetics: Technologies, Applications, and Academic Fields (Geoffrey C. Fox)
- Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (W. Daniel Hillis)
- Crystalline Computation (Norman H. Margolus)
- Fundamentals
- Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links (John Archibald Wheeler)
- Feynman, Barton and the Reversible Schrdinger Difference Equation (Ed Fredkin)
- Action, or the Fungibility of Computation (Tommaso Toffoli)
- Algorithmic Randomness, Physical Entropy, Measurements, and the Demon of Choice (Wojciech Zurek).
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