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Seth Lloyd

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August 02, 1960

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http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/SethLlo...

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Seth Lloyd is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic".
His research area is the interplay of information with complex systems, especially quantum systems. He has performed seminal work in the fields of quantum computation and quantum communication, including proposing the first technologically feasible design for a quantum computer, demonstrating the viability of quantum analog computation, proving quantum analogs of Shannon's noisy channel theorem, and designing novel methods for quantum error correction and noise reduction.

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Books by Seth Lloyd

Average rating: 3.73 · 244 ratings · 30 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos 3.73 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Uchū O Puroguramusuru Uchū: Ikanishite Keisansuru Uchū Wa Fukuzatsuna Sekai O Tsukuttaka by Seth Lloyd, 水谷淳 (翻訳) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Quantum Computers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.”
― Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

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