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Published on: 7/19/2001
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Edward Fredkin
Founder , Information International Inc.Former Director , MIT Laboratory of Computer Science
Mr. Edward Fredkin founded Information International Inc. serving as its CEO.He has served as the CEO of a diverse set of companies , including Radnet , Three Rivers Computer Corporation , New England Television Corporation ( Boston's then Channel 7 , the CBS affiliate ) , and others.Mr. Fredkin has performed extensive consulting to large computer companies such as IBM , Digital , Motorola , Schlumberger , and to many other smaller companies.
Mr. Fredkin served in the military as a pilot and later as a computer specialist for the US Air Force.His enthusiasm for artificial intelligence led to many fundamental discoveries in computer science.He is the inventor of the Conservative Logic Gate , a computing element widely known as the Fredkin Gate.He also discovered general methods , known as the Fredkin Transforms , for converting mathematical models of systems into computational models that are exactly reversible.His academic career includes a period as Director of the MIT Laboratory of Computer Science and professorships at MIT , BU , and CMU.He spent one year at the California Institute of Technology as a Fairchild Distinguished Scholar working in the Division of Physics , Mathematics , and Astronomy.Currently , he is serving as a Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh , PA..