Date

Class #

Lectures as segmented voice-overs

(Same Lecs - Single PPT for download)

HWs

08/23

1

1A: Course Structure

1B: What is Information?

1C: How we Process Information?

1D: How do we implement this algorithm in hardware?

Introduction: How we compute

HW #1

08/30

2

2A: Elementary Gates for Addition

2B: Binary Representation

2C: Binary Negatives

2D: Interfaces and Routing (MUX/DEMUX)

2E: Memory

2F: Universal Logic (FPGAs)

Boolean Logic: How we add

HW #2

09/06

3

3A: Intro to CMOS

3B: How NMOS and PMOS work

3C: PN junction Devices

3D: From diodes to Switches

3E: The trouble with CMOS

3F: SPICE modeling of circuits

CMOS: How we add quickly

HW #3

09/13

4

4A: Reversible and Irreversible Computing

4B: Cost of Copying

4C: Cost of a Battery

4D: Trading Entropy: Fuel value of information

4E: Cost of speed and accuracy

Thermodynamics - the energy cost of computing

HW #4

09/20

5

5A: Parity Bits

5B: Hamming Encoding

5C: ECC in Biology

5D: Coding Efficiency

5E: Lossless Data Compression

5F: Analog encoding

Error Correction

HW #5

09/27

6

6A: State Machines

6B: Computational Complexity

6C: Biological Neurons

6D: Artificial Neurons

Computability

Midterm 1

10/11

7

7A: Configuration Space

7B: Boltzmann Law

7C: Implementing Boltzmann Law in configuration space

7D: Self-consistent field approach

Boltzmann Machines

HW #6

10/18

8

8A: Monte Carlo approach

8C: Backward Propagation

8D: Data Compression and CNN

Time Sampling

HW #7

10/25

9

9A: Min-Max Cut

9C: Truth Table

9D: Backpropagation

9E: Averages

9F: AI Hardware

Truth Table

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10

BONUS LECTURE: Dynamics

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10/31

11

11A: Quantum Physics

11C: Quantum Spin Operators

11D: Quantum Thermodynamics

11E: Spin-Spin Correlations

Quantum Spins

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11/08

12

12A: Quantum Operators

12C: More Sophisticated Gates

12D: Quantum Fourier Transform

12E: Proof of QFT circuit

Quantum Gates

HW #8

11/15

13

13A: Quantum Error Correction

13C: Entanglement, Bell States and Entropy

13D: Measuring Entanglement and Bell-CHSH inequalities

Quantum Error Correction and Entanglement

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11/29

14

14A: Quantum Key Distribution

14C: Shor's Factoring Algorithm

14D: Quantum Teleportation

Quantum Computing

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