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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Subject: Re: Switching (was: Will Java VM kill Lisp?  How to fight it.)
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In article <y4ybarpca1.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
Jan Vorbrueggen <jan@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:

> hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker) writes:
> 
> > 
> > In fact, one of the major failures of physics in the 20th century
> > is its complete inability to integrate any theory of 'information' with
> > physics at all.
> 
> Have you ever read Dennis Gabor's 1949 paper in the IEE proceedings?
> 
>         Jan

Yes.  It's a good start, but not much has been done in the mean time
to build on it.
