Feynman and computation : exploring the limits of computers /
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Reading, Mass. :
Perseus Books,
[1999]
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Feynman's course oon 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
- Memory / Gerald Jay Sussman
- Numerical evidence that the motion of Pluto is chaotic / Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom
- pt. 2. Reducing the size
- There's plenty of room at the bottom / Richard P. Feynman
- Information is inevitabley physical / Rolf Landauer
- Scaling of MOS technology to submicrometer feature sizes / Carver A. Mead
- Richard Feynman and cellular vacuum / Marvin Minsky
- pt. 3. Quantum limits
- Simulating physics with computers / Richard P. Feynman
- Quantum robots / Paul Benioff
- Quantum information theory / Charles H. Bennett
- Quantum computation / Richard J. Hughes
- pt. 4. 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
- pt. 5. Fundamentals
- Information, physics, quantum: the search for links / John Archibald Wheeler
- Feynman, Barton and the reversible Schrödinger difference equation / Ed Fredkin
- Action, or the fungibility of computation / Tommaso Toffoli
- Algorithmic randomness, physical entropy, measurements, and the demon of choice / Wojciech Zurek.