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Jan 01, 1934 Los Angeles, California, United States 90 years old
American physicist and computer scientist, a pioneer of digital physics
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About Edward Fredkin
- Edward Fredkin (born October 2, 1934) is a distinguished career professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pennsylvania, and an early pioneer of Digital physics.Fredkin's primary contributions include his work on reversible computing and cellular automata.
- While Konrad Zuse's book, Calculating Space (1969), mentioned the importance of reversible computation, the Fredkin gate represented the essential breakthrough.
- In recent work, he uses the term Digital philosophy (DP). During his career, Fredkin served on the faculties of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Computer Science, was a Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech, and was Research Professor of Physics at Boston University, Massachusetts.
