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The laws and methodology of physics are starting to provide powerful insights into the nature and dynamics of computation. This book contains a number of articles that illustrate how fields ranging from quantum mechanics to statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics can help elucidate the nature of computation.Contents: Quantum Limits on Information Transmission for Single and Many Channels Architectures (M Schiffer) Algorithmic Randomness, Physical Entropy, Measurements, and the Second Law (W H Zurek) Cooperative Problem Solving (S H Clearwater, T Hogg & B A Huberman) Directed-Graph Epidemiological Models of Computer Viruses (J O Kephart & S R White) The Use of Physics Concepts in Computation (G C Fox) Readership: Computer scientists and physicists.

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