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Richard P. Feynman made profoundly important and prescient contributions to the physics of computing, notably with his seminal articles ?There's 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 s
List of contents
I: Feynman's Course on Computation, 1: Feynman and Computation, 2: Neural Networks and Physical Systems with Emergent Collective Computational Abilities, 3: Feynman as a Colleague, 4: Collective Electrodynamics I, 5: A Memory, 6: Numercial Evidence that the Motion of Pluto is Chaotic, II: Reducing the Size, 7: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, 8: Information is Inevitably Physical, 9: Scaling of MOS Technology to Submicrometer Feature Sizes, 10: Richard Feynman and Cellular Vacuum, III: Quantum Limits, 11: Simulating Physics with Computers, 12: Quantum Robots, 13: Quantum Information Theory, 14: Quantum Computation, IV: Parallel Computation, 15: Computing Machines in the Future, 16: Internetics: Technologies, Applications and Academic Fields, 17: Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine, 18: Crystalline Computation, V: Fundamentals, 19: Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links, 20: Feynman, Barton and the Reversible Schrodinger Difference Equation, 21: Action, or the Fungibility of Computation, 22: Algorithmic Randomness, Physical Entropy, Measurements, and the Demon of Choice
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Richard P. Feynman made profoundly important and prescient contributions to the physics of computing, notably with his seminal articles ?There's 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 s
