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Ed Fredkin and the Physics of Information: An Inside Story of an Outsider Scientist
- Information & Culture: A Journal of History
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 51, Number 3, 2016
- pp. 419-443
- 10.1353/lac.2016.0017
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Abstract:
This article tells the story of Ed Fredkin, a pilot, programmer, engineer, hardware designer, and entrepreneur whose work inside and outside academia has influenced major developments in computer science and in the foundations of theoretical physics, and, in particular, in the intersection thereof, for the past fifty years.