Amr Sabry - What is "Quantum" about Quantum Computing?

This is one of the first times I've heard a talk about this that actually seems to make some sense! Starts around 20:00.

42:54 See Baker's paper NREVERSAL of Fortune - The Thermodynamics of Garbage Collection. Also Theseus : A High Level Language for Reversible Computing by Roshan P. James.

See Free Quantum Computing by Jacques Carette, Chris Heunen, Robin Kaarsgaard, Neil J. Ross and Amr Sabry, A computational interpretation of compact closed categories: reversible programming with negative and fractional types by Chao-Hong Chen and Amr Sabry and Compositional Reversible Computation by Jacques Carette, Chris Heunen, Robin Kaarsgaard and Amr Sabry.

1:08:00 On the reversibility thing, it's weird, isn't it? See the bit starting at at page 18 of EWD12345. Nobody ever said anything to me about that. I guess it's a bit weird, but I don't care. I really enjoyed writing it, even though I was quite literally starving at the time.

1:16:42 On measurement in reversible quantum computation systems see Quantum information effects by Chris Heunen and Robin Kaarsgaard.

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