The physics of information technology cambridge series on. In the age of the internet, we use information technology in ways bush never imagined. Neil adam gershenfeld born december 1, 1959 is an american professor at mit and the director of mits center for bits and atoms, a sister lab to the mit media lab. Department of physical sciencesand engineering prince georges community college largo, maryland. The physics of information technology neil gershenfeld. The physics of information technology explores the familiar devices that we use to collect, transform, transmit, and interact with electronic information. In particular, the computing power of quantum computers is examined. Pdf the physics of information processing superobjects. Many such devices operate surprisingly close to very many fundamental physical limits. The physics of information technology is a physics text, not a work of popular science. Cambridge university press 9780521580441 the physics of information technology neil gershenfeld excerpt more information. This paper presents several observations on the connections between information, physics and computation. Modern information technology operates over a spectacular range of scales. Physics information recent changes mail additions to this list to you can also search for keyword on this server.
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