The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes Season 1 Episode 17 Erasure Cost and Reversible Computing

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December 11, 2015
30 min

Maxwell's demon has startling implications for the push toward ever-faster computers. Probe the connection between the second law of thermodynamics and the erasure of information, which turns out to be a practical barrier to computer processing speed. Learn how computer scientists deal with the demon.

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