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Tommaso Toffoli

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Prof. Tommaso Toffoli
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Boston University
8 Saint Mary's St., Boston, MA 02215
617/353-9846; fax 617/353-6440

Home:
26 Athens St., Cambridge, MA 02138
617/864-8545


Curriculum vitae

Publications


Most of my stuff is laid out in a very compact format. For best enjoyment (as they say), print a hard copy and read from there, annotate at wish, and please send me corrections and comments.

"A man and his computer: An issue of adaptive fitness and personal satisfaction"[PDF]

White paper: "A Knowledge Home: Personal knowledge structuring in a computer world"[PDF]

"Personal Knowledge Engineering"—A graduate course in computer engineering[PDF]

"[The undergraduate as a] Renaissance man: CVI BONO?"[PDF] Charting a path from hands-on learning to literate design

Knowledge Structuring—The Substance of Information Technology[PDF], syllabus of an intensive one-week summer course, Turin, Italy, 2000

"Probability is a lot of logic at once"[PDF]

"A Socratic dialogue"[PDF], by Dennis Geller. A lovely tongue-in-cheek introduction to structured programming, works as well with object-oriented programming

You must read Thayer's "The functions of incompetence"[PDF]; thank me afterwards.

Have you ever read Richard Whately's classic "Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte"?[PDF,PS] (Print this file, two-sided, on US letter paper, and fold in half into a 32-page booklet.)

If you love reductionism, look into Norm Margolus's "Crystalline computation"[ps.gz].

Quantum Computation Library

Other neat stuff