Ed Fredkin and the Physics of Information - An Inside Story of an Outsider Scientist

Information and Culture 51 (3):419-443 (2016)
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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 for the past fifty years.

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