Seth Lloyd is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, principal investigator at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and the designer of the first feasible quantum computer. He has been featured in "The New York Times, "the" Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, "and" Wired, " among other publications. His name frequently appears (as both writer and subject) in the pages of "Nature, New Scientist, Science, "and" Scientific American." He lives in Cambridge, MA.
"Reassembling the bits of a shattered Newtonian apple of knowledge
into a quantum computer of the Universe, Seth Lloyd has unified the
sciences of physics, information, mechanics and complexity in a
prodigious book, incandescent with novel ideas and grand syntheses
that dare the reader to imagine that we have a new Feynman among
us."-George Gilder, author of "Microcosm," "Telecosm," and "The
Silicon Eye"
"This is a fascinating book. The author's message is that
information is at the core of everything. Weaving in his own
intellectual journey towards quantum computation makes it a very
exciting read. I was unable to put it down."-Anton Zeilinger,
Professor of Physics at the University of Vienna
"The modern version of the grand question 'Mind or Matter?' is
'Information or Physics?' Seth Lloyd has engaged it with enthusiasm
and persistence. In his vision, reached after hard study and
thought, the question is transcended: the deepest reality is
simultaneously information "and" physics."-Frank Wilczek, Herman
Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT, 2004 Nobel Laureate
"Seth Lloyd is one of the gurus of quantum and information theory,
and in this accessible book he presents an insightful new
perspective on the cosmos."-Sir Martin Rees, Professor of Cosmology
and Astrophysics, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Author
of "Just Six Numbers"
"What an astonishing book! Seth Lloyd, a quantum bit wrangler at
MIT, proves that not only is the universe really a computer, but
the universe is a computer we can program! He is not the first to
see the world this way, but he is the first to translate this
mathematical intuition into plain English. Lloyd is at the
forefront of a revolution in science that says everything that
exists (atoms, energy, space) is just bits of information. The
beauty of this book, and Lloyd's heroic achievement, is to
transform that utterly outrageous view into a reasonable idea that
anyone can begin to understand. A programmab
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