informal lunch talk

[Joyce Berggren <jib MIT EDU>]

Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12 noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor seminar room


Please join us for this informal  lunch talk:
> Salt
> Ed Fredkin
> CMU & MIT

(Dr. Fredkin is a distinguished computer scientist and was a good 
friend of Feynman, and he made important contributions to the 
foundations of quantum computing ("Fredkin gate"). )

> The architecture of a NaCl crystal is extremely simple but not too 
> simple.  We have found ways to take advantage of the Salt spatial 
> architecture in order to create new kinds of theoretical 
> computational models.  This work leads in 2 directions: towards the 
> possibility of new kinds of molecular computers that resemble 
> massive 3D FPGA's (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and towards even 
> more speculative semi-classical discrete models of a subset of 
> theoretical physics.



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Ms. Joyce Berggren                     email : berg lns mit edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology          jib mit edu
Center for Theoretical Physics
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