birth_place nationality name field work_institutions birth_date known_for residence prizes article_title citizenship alma_mater
los angeles usa edward fredkin computer science , physics . business , massachusetts , inc. . institute of technology carnegie mellon university capital technologies 2 october 1934 trie data structure , fredkin gate brookline , ma dickson prize in science 1984 edward fredkin
 usa -lrb- caltech -rrb-
edward fredkin

edward fredkin -lrb- born 1934 -rrb- is a distinguished career professor at carnegie mellon university -lrb- cmu -rrb- and an early pioneer of digital physics .
his primary contributions include his work on reversible computing and cellular automata .
while konrad zuse 's book , `` calculating space '' -lrb- 1969 -rrb- , mentioned the importance of reversible computation , the fredkin gate represented the essential breakthrough .
in recent work , he uses the term digital philosophy -lrb- dp -rrb- .
during his career fredkin also served on the faculties of mit in computer science , was a fairchild distinguished scholar at caltech , and research professor of physics at boston university .
