Early Life
At age 19, Ed Fredkin left California Institute of Technology (Caltech) college after a year to join the United States Air Force (USAF) to become a fighter pilot. Ed Fredkin has worked with a number of companies in the computer field and has held academic positions at a number of universities. He is a computer programmer, a pilot, advisor to businesses and an amateur physicist. His main interests concern digital computer like models of basic processes in physics.
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