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THE COMPUTATIONAL UNIVERSE: SETH LLOYD [10.24.02] Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information. Since I've been building quantum computers I've come around to thinking about the world in terms of how it processes information.
SETH
LLOYD is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT
and a principal investigator at the Research Laboratory
of Electronics. He is also adjunct assistant professor
at the Santa Fe Institute. He works on problems having
to do with information and complex systems from the
very small—how do atoms process information, how
can you make them compute, to the very large —
how does society process information? And how can we
understand society in terms of its ability to process
information?
His seminal work in the fields of quantum computation and quantum communications — including proposing the first technologically feasible design for a quantum computer, demonstrating the viability of quantum analog computation, proving quantum analogs of Shannon's noisy channel theorem, and designing novel methods for quantum error correction and noise reduction — has gained him a reputation as an innovator and leader in the field of quantum computing. Lloyd has been featured widely in the mainstream media including the front page of The New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Wired, The Dallas Morning News, and The Times (London), among others. His name also frequently appears (both as writer and subject) in the pages of Nature, New Scientist, Science and Scientific American. |
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