Edward Fredkin (October 2, 1934 – June 13, 2023) was an American computer scientist, physicist and businessman who was an early pioneer of digital physics...

Fredkin gate (also controlled-SWAP gate and conservative logic gate) is a computational circuit suitable for reversible computing, invented by Edward...

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...

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...

Triadex Muse is an early sequencer-based digital synthesizer designed by Edward Fredkin and Marvin Minsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969...

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...

decisions. The billiard-ball computer was first designed some years ago by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following...

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...

called transhumanism, has roots in Aldous Huxley and Robert Ettinger. Edward Fredkin argues that "artificial intelligence is the next stage in evolution"...

mechanical computer based on Newtonian dynamics, proposed in 1982 by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli. Instead of using electronic signals like a conventional...

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...

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...

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...

dissipating considerably less than kT of energy per logical step. In 1982 Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli proposed the Billiard ball computer, a mechanism...

engine Kaissa, winning the match without losing a single game. In 1980 Edward Fredkin, computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, offered prizes...

Paris X-Nanterre). Christy Dignam, 63, Irish singer (Aslan), cancer. Edward Fredkin, 88, American physicist, computer scientist and businessman. Lonnie...

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...

which Vercoe designed a real-time digital synthesizer, Wiesner and Edward Fredkin personally procured a PDP-11 for the fledgling research program from...

was an early computer technology company. The company was founded by Edward Fredkin in 1962 in Maynard, Massachusetts. It then moved (serially) to Santa...

(born 1964) – professor of biomedical engineering at BU Randy Barnett Edward Fredkin John Cheever Paul Rosenstein-Rodan – pioneer of postwar development...

Andrew Gleason (mathematics, Harvard) had only a bachelor's degree; Edward Fredkin (computer science, M.I.T.) and Erik Erikson (psychology, Harvard) did...

venture capitalist and entrepreneur Edward Fredkin, digital physics pioneer, inventor of the trie data structure, the Fredkin gate and the Billiard-Ball Computer...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(1969–1975) of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (b. 1935) Edward Fredkin, 88, physicist, computer scientist and businessman (b. 1934) Lonnie...

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...

Meaning in an Age of Information. HarperCollins, 1989. Profiles of Edward Fredkin, Edward O. Wilson, and Kenneth Boulding. Wikiquote has quotations related...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Edward Fredkin. He founded and was chief scientist for Permabit, an information storage...