Programming The Universe

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 *
Lloyd is one of the gurus of quantum and information theory, and in this accessible book he presents an insightful new perspective on the cosmos – Sir Martin Rees, University of Cambridge
Renowned for his innovative conflation of pure physics and computation, Lloyd is well positioned to hack his way into space-time and come back with answers * Seed *
What an astonishing book! Lloyd is at the forefront of a revolution – Kevin Kelly, Editor-at-Large * Wired *

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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