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David Deutsch’s Home Page
My e-mail address: david.deutsch@qubit.org
September 11, 2001: Today I am an American too. 
My reply to the Edge question: “What
now?” is here.
I have signed this
petition, protesting against the recent call for a boycott of academic and
cultural ties with Israel.
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New: My answer to the Edge question 2004, What Is Your Law?, is here.
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New: A preprint of my new paper Qubit Field Theory is avalable here.
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New: My contribution It From Qubit (PDF file here) to the celebrations of John Wheeler's 90th birthday will appear in Science & Ultimate Reality, John Barrow, Paul Davies, Charles Harper, Eds. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
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A transcript of my talk Physics, Philosophy and Quantum Technology (PDF file here) at the Sixth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing will appear in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, Shapiro, J.H. and Hirota, O., Eds. (Rinton Press, Princeton, NJ. 2003).
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My paper The Structure of the Multiverse (http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0104033) has appeared in Proceedings of the Royal Society A458 2028 2911-23 (2002).
- International Award on
Quantum
Communication 2002 for ‘theoretical work on Quantum Computer
Science’.
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First impressions of Stephen
Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science in The Daily Telegraph.
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An article about me, in German,
entitled Der multiple
Physiker by Thomas
Vasek, has appeared in Die Zeit.
- My contribution to Project Syndicate.
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My reply to the Edge question for 2002:
“What
is your question … why?” is “How are moral assertions
connected with the world of facts?”.
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There's an article by Tim Folger describing some of my work in the
September 2001 issue of Discover magazine. It's
available online here, but note
that it contains misquotations.
- The interview I gave to Filiz Peach for Philosophy Now
(Issue
30, December 2000) is here.
- My paper on the interpretation
of quantum mechanics, Comment on
Lockwood..., which appeared in the British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science, is
here.
- The Discrete and the
Continuous, an abridged version of which appeared in The Times
Higher Education Supplement on January 5, 2001, is available
in full here.
- My reply to the Edge question for 2001:
“What
questions have disappeared – and why?” is “And
Why?”.
- A long
interview by Leonid Levkovich (translated into Russian, which I do not
speak) appears in
Computerra December 2000. An online version is
here.
- Edge
Foundation
Interview. A long
interview by John Brockman. Also some video of the interview: DSL or better / 56kb Modem
(requires RealPlayer).
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Recent papers:
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- Oliver Morton’s article The
Computable Cosmos of David Deutsch appears in The American
Scholar 69 7 (Summer 2000).
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My 1985 Proc. R. Soc. Lond. paper Quantum theory, the
Church-Turing
principle and the universal quantum computer is now
available in PostScript and
PDF formats at
the Centre for Quantum Computation (See http://www.qubit.org/resource/news.html.)
