文档介绍：INTRODUCTION TO
PUTATION
AND INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION TO
PUTATION
AND INFORMATION
Editors
Hoi=KwongLo
MagiQ Technologies, Inc., New York
Sandu Popescu
University of Bristol &
BRIMS, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol
Tim Spiller
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol
Scientific
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Lo, Hoi-Kwong.
Introduction to putation and information I Hoi-Kwong Lo
& Tim Spiller, Sandu Popescu.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 981023399X ISBN 981024410X (pbk)
1. puters. I. Spiller, Tim. 11. Popescu, Sandu.
111. Title.
1998
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FOREWORD
MICHAEL BERRY
H. H. Walls Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol
Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1 TL, United Kingdom
In the eenth century, life was transformed by the conscious appli-
cation of classical mechanics, in the form of Ne