• Norman H. Margolus (born 1955) is a Canadian-American physicist and computer scientist, known for his work on cellular automata and reversible computing...
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  • century later, Norman Margolus and Lev Levitin showed that the speed of evolution cannot exceed the mean energy, a result known as the Margolus–Levitin theorem...
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    dynamics to Conway's Game of Life, first described by Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus in 1987. Critters is defined on a two-dimensional infinite grid of...
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  • then MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, with Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus as primary figures. Digital physics suggests that there exists, at...
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  • Deutsch gate is a universal gate for quantum computing. The Margolus gate (named after Norman Margolus), also called simplified Toffoli, is very similar to a...
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  • Computronium is a material hypothesized by Norman Margolus and Tommaso Toffoli of MIT in 1991 to be used as "programmable matter", a substrate for computer...
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    the Margolus neighborhood, named after Norman Margolus, who first studied block cellular automata using this neighborhood structure. In the Margolus neighborhood...
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  • designed by Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus and is described at length in "Cellular Automata Machines", by Toffoli and Margolus (MIT Press, 1987). The card...
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    Adriano Barenco, Charles Bennett, Richard Cleve, David P. DiVincenzo, Norman Margolus, Peter Shor, Tycho Sleator, John A. Smolin, and Harald Weinfurter,...
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    be reversible. Such systems have been studied by Tommaso Toffoli, Norman Margolus and others. Several techniques can be used to explicitly construct...
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  • Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling, MIT Press (1987), with Norman Margolus. ISBN 0-262-20060-0. Billiard-ball computer Block cellular automaton...
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  • Adriano; Bennett, Charles H.; Cleve, Richard; DiVincenzo, David P.; Margolus, Norman; Shor, Peter; Sleator, Tycho; Smolin, John A.; Weinfurter, Harald (1995-11-01)...
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    Andrew Majda David Makinson Benoit Mandelbrot Michelle Manes Yuri Manin Norman Margolus Grigory Margulis Robert J. Marks II Marco Marra David B. Massey Varghese...
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  • founded the Information Mechanics Group at MIT, which united Toffoli, Norman Margolus, and Charles Bennett. This group created a computer especially designed...
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    Sutner (1991). Toffoli & Margolus (1987), section 12.8.2, "Critters", pp. 132–134; Margolus (1999); Marotta (2005). Toffoli & Margolus (1987), Section 14.5...
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  • Adriano; Charles H. Bennett; Richard Cleve; David P. DiVincenzo; Norman Margolus; Peter Shor; Tycho Sleator; John A. Smolin; Harald Weinfurter (1995-11-01)...
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    Technology (MIT) in 1999, where she worked with Mehran Kardar and Norman Margolus. After graduation, she worked in both the fundamental mathematics group...
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    geometry Lattice graph Pixel connectivity Chain code Toffoli, Tommaso; Margolus, Norman (1987), Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling...
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    Section 2.1, "Basic Definitions", pp. 5–6. Toffoli & Margolus (1990). Note however that Toffoli and Margolus refer to the transition function as the global...
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    Wolfram Media, pp. 437–440, 452, ISBN 1-57955-008-8. Toffoli, Tommaso; Margolus, Norman (1990), "Invertible cellular automata", Physica D, 45: 229–253, doi:10...
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  • Nivasch, Gabriel (2007), The photon/XOR system. Toffoli, Tommaso; Margolus, Norman (1987), "1.2 Animate-by-numbers", Cellular Automata Machines: A New...
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    Adriano; Bennett, Charles H.; Cleve, Richard; DiVincenzo, David P.; Margolus, Norman; Shor, Peter; Sleator, Tycho; Smolin, John A.; Weinfurter, Harald (1995-11-01)...
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  • Adriano; Bennett, Charles H.; Cleve, Richard; DiVincenzo, David P.; Margolus, Norman; Shor, Peter; et al. (1 November 1995). "Elementary gates for quantum...
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  • Programmable matter is a term originally coined in 1991 by Toffoli and Margolus to refer to an ensemble of fine-grained computing elements arranged in...
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    Adriano; Bennett, Charles H.; Cleve, Richard; DiVincenzo, David P.; Margolus, Norman; Shor, Peter; Sleator, Tycho; Smolin, John A.; Weinfurter, Harald (1995-11-01)...
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    high-period infinite growth, solving the open problem. Toffoli, Tommaso; Margolus, Norman (1987), "1.2 Animate-by-numbers", Cellular Automata Machines: A New...
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    University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-598-37798-2. Toffoli, Tommaso; Margolus, Norman (1987). Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling...
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    14 (1): 5–27. doi:10.1016/0167-2681(90)90038-F. Toffoli, Tommaso; Margolus, Norman (1987). Cellular automata machines: a new environment for modeling...
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