Edward Fredkin (October 2, 1934 – June 13, 2023) was an American computer scientist, physicist and businessman who was an early pioneer of digital physics...
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Fredkin gate (also controlled-SWAP gate and conservative logic gate) is a computational circuit suitable for reversible computing, invented by Edward...
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digital physics was coined in 1978 by Edward Fredkin, who later came to prefer the term digital philosophy. Fredkin encouraged the establishment of a digital...
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Briandais in 1959.: 336 The idea was independently described in 1960 by Edward Fredkin, who coined the term trie, pronouncing it /ˈtriː/ (as "tree"), after...
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Triadex Muse is an early sequencer-based digital synthesizer designed by Edward Fredkin and Marvin Minsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969...
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Fredkin's paradox reads "The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them—no matter that, to the same degree...
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decisions. The billiard-ball computer was first designed some years ago by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following...
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violations, and hence cannot explain the observed results of Bell tests. Edward Fredkin and Konrad Zuse pioneered the idea of a computable universe, the former...
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called transhumanism, has roots in Aldous Huxley and Robert Ettinger. Edward Fredkin argues that "artificial intelligence is the next stage in evolution"...
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mechanical computer based on Newtonian dynamics, proposed in 1982 by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli. Instead of using electronic signals like a conventional...
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worked on cellular automata and the theory of artificial life (with Edward Fredkin and others), and is known for the invention of the Toffoli gate. He...
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to the Deep Blue team, a prize created by computer science professor Edward Fredkin in 1980 for the first computer program to beat a reigning world chess...
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originated in the work of Konrad Zuse, and was popularized in America by Edward Fredkin. Automata also appear in the theory of finite fields: the set of irreducible...
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dissipating considerably less than kT of energy per logical step. In 1982 Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli proposed the Billiard ball computer, a mechanism...
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engine Kaissa, winning the match without losing a single game. In 1980 Edward Fredkin, computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, offered prizes...
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Paris X-Nanterre). Christy Dignam, 63, Irish singer (Aslan), cancer. Edward Fredkin, 88, American physicist, computer scientist and businessman. Lonnie...
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of Project MAC Robert Fano, 1963–1968 J. C. R. Licklider, 1968–1971 Edward Fredkin, 1971–1974 Michael Dertouzos, 1974–1975 Directors of the Artificial...
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which Vercoe designed a real-time digital synthesizer, Wiesner and Edward Fredkin personally procured a PDP-11 for the fledgling research program from...
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was an early computer technology company. The company was founded by Edward Fredkin in 1962 in Maynard, Massachusetts. It then moved (serially) to Santa...
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(born 1964) – professor of biomedical engineering at BU Randy Barnett Edward Fredkin John Cheever Paul Rosenstein-Rodan – pioneer of postwar development...
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Andrew Gleason (mathematics, Harvard) had only a bachelor's degree; Edward Fredkin (computer science, M.I.T.) and Erik Erikson (psychology, Harvard) did...
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venture capitalist and entrepreneur Edward Fredkin, digital physics pioneer, inventor of the trie data structure, the Fredkin gate and the Billiard-Ball Computer...
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naturally in spintronic quantum computers. The Fredkin gate (also CSWAP or CS gate), named after Edward Fredkin, is a 3-bit gate that performs a controlled...
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to the Deep Blue team, a prize created by computer science professor Edward Fredkin in 1980 for the first computer program to beat a reigning world chess...
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programmers who managed DEC systems. DECUS was founded in March 1961 by Edward Fredkin. DECUS was legally a part of Digital Equipment Corporation and subsidized...
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Amoroso, and Cooper he credits its observation to unpublished work by Edward Fredkin in 1981. Skyum, Sven (1975), "Confusion in the Garden of Eden", Proceedings...
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(1969–1975) of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (b. 1935) Edward Fredkin, 88, physicist, computer scientist and businessman (b. 1934) Lonnie...
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automaton is a type of reversible cellular automaton (CA) invented by Edward Fredkin where the state of a cell at time t depends not only on its neighborhood...
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Meaning in an Age of Information. HarperCollins, 1989. Profiles of Edward Fredkin, Edward O. Wilson, and Kenneth Boulding. Wikiquote has quotations related...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Edward Fredkin. He founded and was chief scientist for Permabit, an information storage...
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