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Selected Works of Neal G. Anderson

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering

My research focuses on the physical dimensions of information and computation and their implications for future information technologies. I am primarily interested in the following topics and their intersections:

fundamental physical understanding of information and computation
physical-information-theoretic description of computation
energy efficiency of computation: opportunities and physical limits
post-CMOS nanocomputing and other unconventional and natural computing paradigms

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About Neal G. Anderson

My research focuses on the physical dimensions of information and computation and their implications for future information technologies. I am primarily interested in the following topics and their intersections:

fundamental physical understanding of information and computation
physical-information-theoretic description of computation
energy efficiency of computation: opportunities and physical limits
post-CMOS nanocomputing and other unconventional and natural computing paradigms

Present	Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Physical information theory; fundamental limits in nanoelectronic information processing; nanocomputing; nanoscale and quantum devices for computing and photovoltaics

2012 IEEE NANO Best Oral Conference Paper Award (First Place)
2011 IEEE NANO Best Paper Award
2006 University Distinguished Teaching Award
1993 College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award

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The Physical Signature of Computation: A Robust Mapping Account

Neal G. Anderson and Gualtiero Piccinini

Generalized Landauer Bound for Information Processing: Proof and Applications

Neal G. Anderson

Physical Information and Fundamental Energy Limits in Computation

CCC Workshop on Physics & Engineering Issues in Adiabatic/Reversible Classical Computing (2020)

Neal G. Anderson

Unpublished Paper

Shoring Up the Physical and Conceptual Foundations of Reversible Computing

Neal G. Anderson

Special Issue: Physical Information and the Physical Foundations of Computation

Neal G. Anderson (Guest Editor)

Information Processing Artifacts

Minds and Machines (2019)

Neal G. Anderson

Contribution to Book

Ontic Pancomputationalism

Physical Perspectives on Computation, Computational Perspectives on Physics (2018)

Gualtiero Piccinini and Neal G. Anderson

Contribution to Book

Conditional Erasure and the Landauer Limit

Energy Limits in Computation (2018)

Neal G. Anderson

Landauer's Limit and the Physicality of Information

European Physical Journal (2018)

Neal G. Anderson

Architecture and Dissipation: Thermodynamic Costs of General Purposeness in von ...

ICRC 2017: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (2017)

Jared P. Ricci and Neal G. Anderson

Information as a Physical Quantity

Information Sciences (2017)

Neal G. Anderson

Published version.

Unpublished Paper

Pancomputationalism and the Computational Description of Physical Systems

Neal G. Anderson and Gualtiero Piccinini

Irreversible Information Loss: Fundamental Notions and Entropy Costs

International Journal of Modern Physics (2014)

Neal G. Anderson

Conditioning, Correlation, and Entropy Generation in Maxwell’s Demon

Neal G. Anderson

Irreversibility and Dissipation in Finite-State Automata

Physics Letters A (2013)

Natesh Ganesh and Neal G. Anderson

Toward Nanoprocessor Thermodynamics

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (2013)

Neal G. Anderson, Ilke Ercan and Natesh Ganesh

Overwriting Information: Correlations, Physical Costs, and Environment Models

Physics Letters A (2012)

Neal G. Anderson

On the Physical Implementation of Logical Transformations: Generalized L-Machines

Theoretical Computer Science (2010)

Neal G. Anderson

Information Erasure in Quantum Systems

Physics Letters A (2008)

Neal G. Anderson

Energy efficiency limits in approximate computing: A fundamental physical perspective

Proc. 50th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, Computers (2016)

Neal G. Anderson

Field-Coupled Nanocomputing: Paradigms, Progress, and Perspectives

Neal G. Anderson and Sanjukta Bhanja

Contribution to Book

Modular Dissipation Analysis for QCA

Field-Coupled Nanocomputing: Paradigms, Progress, and Perspectives (2014)

Ilke Ercan and Neal G. Anderson

Heat Dissipation in Nanocomputing: Lower Bounds from Physical Information Theory

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (2013)

Ilke Ercan and Neal G. Anderson

On-Chip Error Correction with Unreliable Decoders: Fundamental Physical Limits

DFT 2013: IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (2013)

Natesh Ganesh and Neal G. Anderson

Throughput-Dissipation Tradeoff in Partially Reversible Nanocomputing: A Case Study

NANOARCH 2013: The 2013 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, (2013)

Kyle J. Stearns and Neal G. Anderson