Edward Fredkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Edward Fredkin

American physicist and computer scientist, a pioneer of digital physics

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1934

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession: computer scientist, physicist, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Edward Fredkin (born October 2, 1934) is a distinguished career professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pennsylvania, and an early pioneer of Digital physics.Fredkin's primary contributions include his work on reversible computing and cellular automata.
While Konrad Zuse's book, Calculating Space (1969), mentioned the importance of reversible computation, the Fredkin gate represented the essential breakthrough.
In recent work, he uses the term Digital philosophy (DP). During his career, Fredkin served on the faculties of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Computer Science, was a Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech, and was Research Professor of Physics at Boston University, Massachusetts.