Norman Margolus

Keywords/Interests: cellular automata, multiprocessors, parallel computation, physical simulation, physics of computation

Address:

NE43-793
A I Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Books

• Norman Margolus and Tommaso Toffoli, Cellular Automata Machines, Addison-Wesley, 1990. [Not in Amazon?]
• Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus, Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987. (ISBN 0-262-20060-0).

References

• N. Margolus, Lev B. Levitin, "The maximum speed of dynamical evolution," Physica D 120(1998):188-195.
• N. Margolus, "Ultimate Computers", (1995) [PS, PDF]
• N. Margolus, "Parallel Quantum Computation", MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (1994), [PS, PDF]
• N. Margolus, "CAM-8: a computer architecture based on cellular automata,'' in Pattern Formation and Lattice-Gas Automata, A. Lawniczak and R. Kapral, (eds.), American Mathematical Society (1994).
• N. Margolus, "Cellular Automata Machines: a new kind of computer,'' in the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Physics (Beijing, September 1993).
• N. Margolus, "Virtual Processor Emulation of Large Cellular Logic Systems,'' submitted for publication.
• N. Margolus, "Spacetime circuitry on CAM-8'', submitted for publication.
• N. Margolus and  T. Toffoli, ``STEP: a Space Time Event Processor,'' MIT/LCS/TR-592 (1993).
• T. Toffoli and N. Margolus, "Programmable Matter: Concepts and Realization", Physica D, 47:263-272 (1991).
• N. Margolus, T. Toffoli, C. H. Bennett, G. Vichniac, M. A. Smith, and A. Califano, CAM-6 Software, Systems Concepts, San Francisco, CA (1984, 1987), CAM-PC Software, Automatrix Inc., Rexford, NY (1991).
• N. Margolus and T. Toffoli in Lattice-Gas Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Addison-Wesley (1990), pp 219-249.
• N. Margolus, "Parallel Quantum Computation", in Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information, Wojciech Zurek (ed.), Addison-Wesley (1990).
• N. Margolus, "Physics and computation," (Ph. D. Thesis) MIT/LCS/TR-415, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (1988). [Abstract]
• N. Margolus, "Quantum computation," in the Proceedings of the Conference "New Ideas and Techniques on Quantum Measurement Theory" (Jan. 1986), Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 480:487-497 (1986).
• N. Margolus, T. Toffoli, and G. Vichniac, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56:1694-1696 (1986).
• T. Toffoli and N. Margolus, "The CAM-7 Multiprocessor: A Cellular Automata Machine", MIT/LCS/TM-289 (1985). [Abstract]
• N. Margolus, T. Toffoli and Vichniac, G., "Cellular Automata Supercomputers for Fluid Dynamics Modeling", MIT/LCS/TM-296 (1985). [Abstract]
• N. Margolus, "Physics-like models of computation", Physica D 10:81-95 (1984).

• N. Margolus, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Patent No. 5,159,690, Filed 09/30/88, Issued 10/27/92.