Book ID: CBB001180085

The bit and the pendulum: From quantum computing to M theory -- the new physics of information (2000)

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Siegfried, Tom (Author)


Wiley


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: vi + 281 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Description Contents: 1.; Beam up the goulash --; 2.; Machines and metaphors --; 3.; Information is physical --; 4.; The quantum and the computer --; 5.; The computational cell --; 6.; The computational brain --; 7.; Consciousness and complexity --; 8.; IGUSes --; 9.; Quantum reality --; 10.; From black holes to supermatter --; 11.; The magical mystery theory --; 12; The bit and the pendulum. (from WorldCat)


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Authors & Contributors
Chamberlin, D. D.
Cortada, James W.
Darwen, H.
Dourish, Paul
Ernst, Wolfgang
Fornes, Jordi
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Social Studies of Science
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Technology and Culture
Publishers
MIT Press
Yale University
University of California, Berkeley
IEEE
Johns Hopkins University Press
New York University Press
Concepts
Information technology
Computer science
Computers and computing
Technology
Technology and society
Databases
People
Hoelzer, Helmut
Hollerith, Herman
Plato
Von Neumann, John
Zuse, Konrad
Aiken, Howard Hathaway
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20th century
21st century
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International Business Machines Corporation
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Dartmouth University
Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium
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