What is Computation? (How) Does Nature Compute?
David Deutsch · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks · 2012
Figure 1: Introducing David Deutsch Adrian German (addressing the audience1): Our next guest is the recipient of the 2005 Edge of Computation Science Prize and will be speaking to us via video-link2 from the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation and was the first person to formulate a description for a quantum Turing machine and to specify an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer. He is also a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and his new book entitled “The Beginning of Infinity” is due to appear early next year3. Ladies and gentlemen it is with great pleasure that I am asking you now to join me in welcoming Prof. David Deutsch. (Applause.) And with