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The physical basis of computability

Computing in Science & Engineering, 2002
Simulations work in practice because they exploit higher-level organizing principles in nature. Good code writing requires faithfulness to these principles and the discipline not to exceed their limits of validity. An important exception is the use of simulation to search for new kinds of emergence.
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Physical limitations of a computer

ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 1993
This article introduces the physical limitations of a computer and describes limiting architectural impact of the laws of physics on computer hardware design and shows how imaginative application of skills of a computer architect and artistic management of the circuitry may override some of these limitations.
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A computing architecture for physics

Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Computing frontiers, 2005
In this paper, we show how a computing architecture, called "Salt", might be able to implement the workings of a particular Discrete Space-Time-State model of Physics (DSTSP). While what is presented is certainly not a correct model of fundamental processes in physics, it illustrates how such models could give us insights into new methods of modeling ...
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Physics of computing as an introduction to computer engineering

2013 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2013
This paper describes a new required course in the Georgia Tech computer engineering curriculum, ECE 3030, Physical Foundations of Computer Systems. Traditional introductory courses take a constructive approach to logic design and computer organization. 3030, in contrast, introduces the major physical concepts underlying computation.
Marilyn Wolf, Saibal Mukhopadhyay
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Physical computing for everyone

2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training Track (ICSE-SEET), 2017
Thanks to Moore's Law, embeddable microcontroller-based devices continue to get cheaper, faster, and include more integrated sensors and networking options. In 2016, the BBC and a host of technical partners, including Microsoft, delivered such a physical computing device, the micro:bit, to every 5th grader in the UK.
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The computational status of physics

Nat. Comput., 2009
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Computability in Analysis and Physics

1989
Since their inception, the Perspectives in Logic and Lecture Notes in Logic series have published seminal works by leading logicians. Many of the original books in the series have been unavailable for years, but they are now in print once again. In this volume, the first publication in the Perspectives in Logic series, Pour-El and Richards present the ...
Marian Boykan Pour-El, Jonathan Ian Richards   +1 more
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The physics of computed radiography

Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2002
Cassette-based computed radiography (CR) systems have continued to evolve in parallel with integrated, instant readout digital radiography (DR) systems. The image quality of present day CR systems is approaching its theoretical limits but is significantly inferior to DR. Further improvements in CR image quality require improved concepts.
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Computation and Fundamental Physics

The Computer Journal, 2012
‘What is computation?” is not mere taxonomy, nor simply an aid in our anthropocentric obsession with explaining our thinking process. Instead it is relevant to some of the deepest questions in the nature of the physics of our universe. Understanding what computation is may be more essential to us than we might have imagined.
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Physics and Computation

1993
Various issues in theoretical physics can be fruitfully analyzed by Kolmogorov complexity. This is the case for physical aspects of information processing, and for application of complexity to physics issues. Physicists have used complexity arguments in a variety of settings like information distance, thermodynamics, chaos, biology, and philosophy.
Ming Li, Paul Vitányi
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