Edward Fredkin

By Pgh_Joe

  • Edward Fredkin was born

    Fredkin was born to brushing immigrants who are mainly poor In Los Angeles.
  • Enroll California institute of technology

    Enroll California institute of technology

    He would drop out in his sophomore year, since he struggled to balance his job and schoolwork. Also, he thought college just wasn't for him.
  • Joins the USAF

    Joins the USAF

    You would end up joining the Air Force after leaving college because to avoid the Korean War draft and he had taken some flight courses before.
  • Graduated from the Air force flight training program

    Graduated from the Air force flight training program

    He would serve three years after graduation, but He refused to go to gunnery school, so he was transferred to Lincoln Labs
  • MIT Lincoln lab

    MIT Lincoln lab

    This is where he would learn about computers and how to program them.

  • Hired by J. C. R. Licklider at BBN

    He would leave the Air Force and was later hired by J. C. R. Licklider. There he would teach employees the company of our computers in return he could suggest new technology he wanted.

  • Finite theory

    In early 1961 Fredkin Would start thinking about his finite theory, which is the rejection of infinites, Infinitesimal, and Randomness in computing.
  • Writes first assembly language

    Writes first assembly language

    (Free of rules assembler language Program or Fredkin’s Assembly Program)

  • Founds Interactional Information Inc.

    It was a very successful IT company that made high precision digital to film scanners that ended up going publicly traded after running for 6 years, which made Fredkin a millionaire.
  • Was hired to teach a MIT

    Was hired to teach a MIT

    With help Marvin Minsky He would be hired as a visiting professor, which after his first gear of teaching he would be hired as a full-time professor with tenure due to the reception of his problem solving class.
  • Director of Project MAC

    Director of Project MAC

    He would serve as director of project mac from 1971 to 1974

  • Goes back to Caltech to spend a year with Richard Feynman

    For that year they would discuss quantum machines, which he would take back the information to MIT.
  • Fredkin Gate

    Fredkin Gate

    During his time at CalTech, he would conceptualize a device called a control swap gate which could store information by having the same number of outputs and inputs.

  • Return back to MIT 1975

    He began work on his revolutionary complex dual framework of depicting physical laws as discrete–state algorithms.

  • Left MIT to go to Boston University.

    Fredkin Decide to leave due to other professors not liking his teaching style and lack of credentials, He would work there as a professor of physics for six years.

  • Worked at Carnegie Mellon university.

    It would continue working there as a Distinguished professor until 2022.

  • Edward Fredkin Died

    Died in Brooklyn, Massachusetts at 88 years old.