Seth Lloyd

Seth Lloyd ( born August 2, 1960) is an American computer scientist and physicist and professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge (Massachusetts ). He is primarily concerned with the information-theoretical aspects of physics, computer science and quantum physics of complex systems.

Lloyd studied at Harvard (Bachelor 1982) and at Cambridge University ( Master's degree 1984). In 1988 he was at the Rockefeller University in Heinz Pagels doctorate ( Black Holes, daemons and the Loss of Coherence: How complex systems get information, and whatthey do with it ). After that, he was a post-doc at Caltech and 1991 to 1994 he was a post-doc at Los Alamos National Laboratory. From 1994 he was assistant professor, associate professor from 1998 and from 2002 professor at MIT. In between, he was in 1979, scientists at SLAC, 1980 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1981 at the Institut Laue -Langevin in Grenoble and 1982 at CERN. From 1987 he was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He worked as a consultant for Hewlett Packard and Microsoft (from 2000).

In 1981 he received the Sargent Prize at Harvard, 1985, he was awarded the Dirac Prize in Erice, 2001 Edgerton Price and 2012 the International Quantum Communication Award.

His area of ​​research is the interaction of information with complex systems, in particular quantum systems. He made ​​significant contributions to the field of quantum computer science, designed the first feasible construction plan of a quantum computer, and proved some quantum mechanical analogues to the Shannon - Hartley Act.

In his book Programming the Universe, Lloyd believes that the universe is a quantum computer, in the course of his program run everything we see, and brings us even. Once we have the laws of physics completely understood, Lloyd, we will be with the help of quantum computers will be able to fully understand the universe. Similar considerations have also Konrad Zuse and Stephen Wolfram made.

In his essay The Computational Universe calculated Lloyd computing power and information content of the universe and comes to a number of logical operations that would have since the world can be carried out, and bit of information.

Publications

  • Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2006, ISBN 1400040922
  • Seth Lloyd: Ultimate physical limits to computation. In: Nature. 406, August 31, 2000, pp. 1047-1054 (PDF).
  • The Computational Universe ( 2002)
  • About Seth Lloyd: The Universe - the first quantum computer. In: Images of science 8 /2007.
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