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Edward Fredkin

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American physicist and computer scientist, a pioneer of digital physics

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Edward Fredkin
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Physics
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According to Wikipedia, Edward Fredkin was an American computer scientist, physicist and businessman who was an early pioneer of digital physics. Fredkin's primary contributions included work on reversible computing and cellular automata. While Konrad Zuse's book, Calculating Space , mentioned the importance of reversible computation, the Fredkin gate represented the essential breakthrough. In more recent work, he used the term digital philosophy .

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