Rolf Landauer
Rolf Landauer (1927-1999) was an IEEE fellow and member of the IBM
Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., USA.
In 1995, he received the 1995 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics
Prize from the American Physical Society.
He has proposed methods that would allow communication to occur without
the requirement of expending energy.
His most recent research interest, the "Kinetics of small structures"
involves the study of mesoscopic transport, particularly noise; traversal
time in tunneling and fundamental physical limits of computation.
Here is his obituary
by Seth Lloyd from Nature400:720
(19 August 1999).
References related to Computational Limits
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R. Landauer, "Energy needed to send a bit",
Proc.
Royal Society of London, Series A 454(1969):305-311 (8 Jan.
1998).
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R. Landauer, in Proceedings of the Drexel-4
Symposium on Quantum Nonintegrability: Quantum-Classical Correspondence,
D. H. Feng and B.-L. Hu (eds), International Press, Boston, ~1996.
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R. Landauer, "Minimal Energy Requirements
in Communication", Science272(5270):1914-1918
(28 June 1996).
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R. Landauer, "Is quantum mechanics useful?",
Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A 353(1073):367-76
(15 Dec 1995).
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R. Landauer, "Statistical physics of machiner:
forgotten middle ground", Physica A 194(1-4):551-562 (1993).
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R. Landauer, in Proceedings of the Workshop
on Physics and Computation: PhysComp '94, IEEE Computer Society Press,
Los Alamitos, CA (1994), pp 54-59. [Conference
Program]
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R. Landauer, in Selected Topics in Signal
Processing, S. Haykin (Ed.), Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ), pp 18-47
(1989).
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R. Landauer, "Dissipation and noise immunity
in computation and communication", Nature335:779,
(October 27 1988).
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R. Landauer, "Energy Requirements in Communication",
Appl.
Phys. Lett. 51(24):2056-2058 (1987).
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R. Landauer, "Reversible Computation"",
Der
Informationsbegriff in Technik und Wissenschaft, O. G. Folberth and
C. Hackel (Eds.), R. Oldenbourg, Munich (1986), pp 139-158.
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R. Landauer, "Computation and Physics:
Wheeler's meaning circuit?", Foundations of Physics 16:551-564
(1986).
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C. H. Bennett and R.
Landauer, "The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation", Scientific
American, 48-56 (July, 1985).
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R. Landauer, "Fundamental Physical Limitations
of the Computational Process", Chapter 12 in Sixth International Conference
on Noise in Physical Systems, P. H. E. Meijer, R. D. Mountain, F. J.
Soulen Jr., (eds), Nat. Bur. Stand.,
Publ. SP-614 (1981).
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R. Landauer, "Uncertainty Principle and
Minimal Energy Dissipation in the Computer", Int.
J. Theoretical Physics 21(3/4):263-273 (1982).
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R. Landauer, "Fundamental limitations of
the computational process", Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für
Physikalische Chemie 80:1048-1059 (1976).
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R. Landauer and J. W. F. Woo, "Cooperative
phenomena in data processing" in Synergetics, H. Haken (ed.) B.
G. Teubner, Stuttgart (1973).
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R. Landauer and J. W. F. Woo, "Minal Energy
Dissipation", Journal of Applied Physics 42:2301-2308 (1971).
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R. W. Keyes and R.
Landauer, "Minimal Energy Dissipation in Logic", "IBM
Journal of Research and Development 14:152-157 (1970).
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R. Landauer, "Wanted: A Physically
Possible Theory of Physics", IEEE
Spectrum 4(9):105-109 (1967).
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R. Landauer, "Irreversibility
and heat generation in the computing process," IBM
Journal of Research and Development 5:183-191 (1961).
Other References
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R. Landauer, "Fluctuations in Bistable
Tunnel Diode Circuits", J. Appl. Phys. 33:2209-2216 (1962).
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R. Landauer and J. A. Swanson, "Frequency
Factors in Thermally Actiated Process", Phys. Rev. 121:1668-1675
(1961).
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