PHY 28B
Natural Computation and Self-Organization:
The Physics of Information Processing in Complex Systems

Jim Crutchfield
chaos@cse.ucdavis.edu; http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos

Spring
WWW: http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/ncaso/

Lecture 37a: Thermodynamics of Information, Part I
Alec Boyd, CSC

Reading: Lecture Notes.

Topics:

  1. Thermodynamics Review
  2. Heat Engines
  3. Control
  4. Particle in a Box
  5. Szilard’s Engine
  6. Maxwell’s Demon
  7. Cost of Information Processing