Feynman and computation
Subtitle: exploring the limits of computers
By: edited by Anthony J.G. Hey.
Contributors: Hey, Anthony J. G.; Feynman, Richard Phillips.
Publisher: Perseus Books; CRC Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Reading, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
Subjects: Physics -- Data processing; Physics -- Computer simulation; Mathematical physics -- Data processing; Computers; Quantum computers
Notes: "Advanced book program."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Feynman and computation -- John J. Hopfield; title: Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities -- John J. Hopfield; title: Feynman as a colleague -- Carver A. Mead; title: Collective electrodynamics I -- Carver A. Mead; title: Memory -- Gerald Jay Sussman; title: Numerical evidence that the motion of Pluto is chaotic -- Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom; title: There's plenty of room at the bottom -- Richard P. Feynman; title: Information is inevitabley physical -- Rolf Landauer; title: Scaling of MOS technology to submicrometer feature sizes -- Carver A. Mead; title: Richard Feynman and cellular vacuum -- Marvin Minsky; title: Simulating physics with computers -- Richard P. Feynman; title: Quantum robots -- Paul Benioff; title: Quantum information theory -- Charles H. Bennett; title: Quantum computation -- Richard J. Hughes; title: Computing machines in the future -- Richard P. Feynman; title: Internetics: technologies, applications and academic fields -- Geoffrey C. Fox; title: Richard Feynman and the connection machine -- W. Daniel Hillis; title: Crystalline computation -- Norman H. Margolus; title: Information, physics, quantum: the search for links -- John Archibald Wheeler; title: Feynman, Barton and the reversible Schrödinger difference equation -- Ed Fredkin; title: Action, or the fungibility of computation -- Tommaso Toffoli; title: Algorithmic randomness, physical entropy, measurements, and the demon of choice-- Wojciech Zurek.