13 tech luminaries we lost in 2023
Remembering the technology giants on whose shoulders we stand.
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Remembering the technology giants on whose shoulders we stand.
Computational rules might describe the evolution of the cosmos better than the dynamical equations of physics — but only if they are given a quantum twist. Computational rules might describe the evolution of the cosmos better than the dynamical equations of physics — but only if they are given a quantum twist.
Jeremy Bernstein’s 1981 Profile of the artificial-intelligence pioneer.
An influential M.I.T. professor and an outside-the-box scientific theorist, he gained fame with unorthodox views as a pioneer in digital physics.
Professor Fredkin charged through an endlessly mutating career that could appear as mind-warping as the iconoclastic theories that made him a force in both computer science and physics.