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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.
- New: My answer to the Edge question 2004, What Is Your Law?, is here.
- New: A preprint of my new paper Qubit Field Theory is avalable here.
- 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).
- 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).
- 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’.
- First impressions of Stephen Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science in The Daily Telegraph.
- An article about me, in German, entitled Der multiple Physiker by Thomas Vasek, has appeared in Die Zeit.
- My contribution to Project Syndicate.
- My reply to the Edge question for 2002: “What is your question … why?” is “How are moral assertions connected with the world of facts?”.
- 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).
- 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).
- My 1985 Proc. R. Soc. Lond. paper Quantum theory, the Church-Turingprinciple 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.)
