Edward Fredkin
Edward Fredkin · Technology & Engineering
Pioneer of reversible computing; devised the Fredkin gate.
1934, Los Angeles, California, United States — 2023, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
United States
Edward Fredkin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Pioneer of reversible computing; devised the Fredkin gate.
Edward Fredkin, an American computer scientist of Jewish background, was a pioneer of reversible and conservative computing, devising the Fredkin gate that performs logic without dissipating information. He advanced digital physics, the idea that the universe can be understood as a computational process.
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Pioneer of reversible computing; devised the Fredkin gate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
