From: Jan Vorbrueggen
Subject: Re: Switching (was: Will Java VM kill Lisp?  How to fight it.)
Date: 
Message-ID: <y4ybarpca1.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
······@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
From: Henry Baker
Subject: Re: Switching (was: Will Java VM kill Lisp?  How to fight it.)
Date: 
Message-ID: <hbaker-1004970817320001@10.0.2.1>
In article <··············@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
Jan Vorbrueggen <···@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:

> ······@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.