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Seth Lloyd is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a principal investigator at the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He is also adjunct assistant professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His seminal work in the fields of quantum computation and quantum communications has gained him a reputation as an innovator and leader in the field of quantum computing. He has written numerous articles for Nature, New Scientist, Science and Scientific American. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Programming The Universe

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 5 April 2007
      ISBN-13 9780099455370
      978-0099455370
      ISBN-10 0099455374
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      Cosmology and the universe Science: general issues

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Seth Lloyd is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a principal investigator at the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He is also adjunct assistant professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His seminal work in the fields of quantum computation and quantum communications has gained him a reputation as an innovator and leader in the field of quantum computing. He has written numerous articles for Nature, New Scientist, Science and Scientific American. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts

      Trade Review

      Seth Lloyd is an authoritative and often funny guide to this head-bending stuff...startlingly novel -- Stephen Poole * Guardian *
      Lloyd does an excellent job of explaining all this in clear, accessible language... I urge you to buy the book -- John Gribbin * Independent *
      Visionary and fun * New York Times *
      His excellent book explains the science in terms as simple as one could hope for -- Andrew Crumey * Scotland on Sunday *
      Lloyd thinks he has found a new way to explain one of the most basic questions in science: Why is the world so complex?... Fascinating and profoundly comforting... Seth Lloyd certainly gives his readers a lot of bang for their buck * The New York Times Book Review *

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