Norman Margolus

Norman H. Margolus
Born1955 (age 68–69)
Other namesNorm Margolus
CitizenshipCanadian, American
Alma materMIT
Known forMargolus neighborhood
Margolus gate
Margolus–Levitin theorem
Block cellular automaton
Reversible cellular automaton
CAM-6 accelerator
Computronium
Critters
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Cellular Automata
Websitepeople.csail.mit.edu/nhm/

Norman H. Margolus (born 1955)[1] is a Canadian-American[2] physicist and computer scientist, known for his work on cellular automata and reversible computing.[3] He is a research affiliate with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4]

  1. ^ Birth year as given in the index of Wolfram, Stephen (2002), A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, ISBN 1-57955-008-8.
  2. ^ He is described as Canadian in Wright, Robert (April 1988), "Did the Universe Just Happen?", The Atlantic Monthly.
  3. ^ Brown, Julian (2002), Minds, Machines, and the Multiuniverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer, Simon and Schuster, pp. 74–76, ISBN 978-0-7432-4263-9.
  4. ^ CSAIL directory Archived 2011-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2011-02-03.