Landauer said that we have to spend work to erase information.
Landauer, and later Charles Bennett, were interested could it be reduced to zero?
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Ralph Landauer, an information scientist at IBM, realized this in 1961.
Gustave Landauer was a very interesting anarchist, a German Jewish pacifist who was kicked to death by the German Army in 1919.
John Landau had just started managing us.
And Landau suggested that there would be equilibration processes, that is, spontaneous damping
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And so what Landauer was interested in is, how do the laws of computing and the laws of thermodynamics interconnect?
So Jon Landau, who's Bruce Springsteen's manager, and I spent a lot of time on tour with him, I relentlessly pounded him about how the Rock and Roll
This is the paradoxical Landau damping effect, which, more or less, appears in one paper of plasma physics out
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A problem that great mathematician Edmund Landau called unattackable.
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The process that we just saw is therefore called Landauer erasure.
And then I got to the reading and Tina Landau, our Director, was like, we're not going to be doing impersonations.
However, there's Landau, still it's a stable media.
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situation and somebody was frightened enough to call the cops-- Bob Landay: Mmm hmm.
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In many cases, I do lecture about this Landau damping.
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Once more, I had managed to catch the train Neil Landau was on, the bad boy in our class with whom, therefore,
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operates, because heat dissipation is one of the big problems, or to convert information into work, as we saw with Landauer
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But it was a couple of giants of the field of the theory of computation working at IBM, Rolf Landauer, and then Charles Bennett,
I had committed this colossal catastrophe because of my desperate love for the unsuspecting, in truth not tremendously bright, but wonderful, miraculous Neil Landau.
So what we did, the two of us-- that is me together with Clement Mouhot, a former collaborator-- was establish this Landau damping
And then, ah, but then this should have to do with the Landau damping.
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And to understand the origins of information, we have to understand how information is related to matter because, as Landauer repeated an infinite number of times, information is physical.
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