… of ancient mechanical computers, these new mechanical computing systems use various …
of information abstraction in computing systems and highlight innovations for mechanical …

… a mechanical system which may have to actually connect and disconnect parts of the system
… This paper demonstrates that mechanical computers can be greatly simplified by using only …

… of natural computing as they are applied in the context of mechanical systems research. The
… learning community are likely to be important for mechanical systems research in the future. …

… characteristic of quantum mechanics, this is not so. If the entire computer system is started in
… different from its initial state due to previous computer operations on it). Thus only one of the …

… characteristic of quantum mechanics, this is not so. If the entire computer system is started in
a … possibly different from its initial state due to previous computer operations on it). Thus only …

… switch comprises an actuation mechanism and a mechanical contact, and is … for computing,
this section presents various types of switches that can be used for mechanical computing, …

… of studying actual physical systems» an approach that Landauer faulted on many counts. It
also became evident that a quantum-mechanical computer might be prone to errors and have …

… examples of important software systems that have behaved in … system; unauthorized users
get access to computer systems; … of tasks that now are entrust to computer systems, it is truly …

In this paper a microscopic quantum mechanical model of computers as represented by
Turing machines is constructed. It is shown that for each numberN and Turing machineQ there …

… mechanical elements. This dynamical form of mechanical computation need not be limited to
the … of reversible computation; non-linear response of dissipative mechanical elements can …