MAS 862
The Physics of Information Technology
Neil Gershenfeld
with Joe Jacobson, Seth Lloyd, Ike Chuang, Ben Vigoda, Yael Maguire


text: The Physics of Information Technology

students

2/13 statistical mechanics, information theory
2/21 fields and waves
2/27 models of computation, computational complexity and universality
3/06 circuits and antennas
3/13 device physics, scaling
3/20 circuit and system design principles, analog logic
4/03 thermodynamics of computation, low-power logic
4/10 error correction, fault tolerance, threshold theorems
4/24 error correction in fabrication, fabricational complexity
5/01 cellular automata models and machines
5/08 quantum information and computation
5/15 computation in nature, computation and cosmology
5/22 final projects


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