Download - Future Cs
Scott AaronsonAssociate Professor, EECS
And Why Every Other Major Sucks By Comparison
Stereotypes of CS Majors
Moore’s Law
So what’s next?
Robot Uprising
Uploading our brains to computers;replacement of “real life” by the Matrix
=So what else is there?
What we’ve learned from quantum computers so far:
15 = 3 × 5(with high probability)
Relativity Computer
DONE
Zeno’s Computer
STEP 1
STEP 2
STEP 3STEP 4
STEP 5
Tim
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econ
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Time Travel Computer
R CTC R CR
C
0 0 0
Answer
“Causality-Respecting Register”
“Closed Timelike
Curve Register”
Polynomial Size Circuit
S. Aaronson and J. Watrous. Closed Timelike Curves Make Quantum and Classical Computing Equivalent, Proceedings of the Royal Society A 465:631-647, 2009. arXiv:0808.2669.
Computer Science Is Interdisciplinary
Math
Biology
Economics
Physics
Brain/Cognitive
Conclusions
- Great choice to get admitted here
- Come to MIT
- You could do a course other than 6-3, but why?