future cs
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This is about CS.TRANSCRIPT
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
e (s
econ
ds)
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?