From: ugarft00@mcl.ucsb.edu (Tal Garfinkel)
Subject: Re: Technical Professionals and the humanities ( Was: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?)
Date: 1997/07/23
Date: 1997-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5r3j86$4ac@yuggoth.ucsb.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5qunom$ler$1@miranda.its.deakin.edu.au
: >
: > [On Richard Feynman]
: >
: > >OK, he wasn't a computer scientist, but it's interesting anyway.
: >
: > Actually he was, in later years. He did some consulting for Thinking
: > Machines. I saw a TV programme where one of the people at TM talked
: > about Feynman's work with them. Apparently Feynman proposed an
: > improved architecture for the machine after doing some maths that
: > involved the number of 1s in the computer.
Feynman also taught a class at CalTech on the limits of computation(dealing
with issues of quantum physic's, not complexity).Also for an awsome
synthesis of a lot of stuff you learned as an undergraduate plus stuff
from Feynman's class on the limits of computation check out the "Feynman
Lectures on Computation". They were published just last year and are a
wonderful read(as is nearly anything he wrote).
Tal
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1997-07-21 0:00 Technical Professionals and the humanities ( Was: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?) Peter Horan
1997-07-23 0:00 ` Tal Garfinkel [this message]
1997-07-29 0:00 ` Ian Nelson
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