Tommaso Toffoli

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Tommaso Toffoli is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University. He joined the faculty in 1995. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Rome in 1967. In 1976 he received a Ph.D. in computer and communication science from the University of Michigan. In 1977, he joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He has worked on cellular automata and the theory of artificial life (with Edward Fredkin and others), and is known for the invention of the Toffoli gate.

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  • Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling, MIT Press (1987), with Norman Margolus.

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