Topological Processors and Computers
A computing unit performing the operations with topologically modulated impulses is a topological processor proposed in 1991–1992. This processor united with other necessary conventional digital units makes up the topological computer.
The first predicate logic processor based on the idea of topological computing was designed and tested by FPGA modeling in 2007.
The first quantum topological computer and its theory were proposed by A. Kitaev et al. in 2002.
A theory of a particular case of topological processors has been proposed by Ryabov and Serov (2007) which is for parallel operating of elementary image voxels.
Relations of topology, physics and computations are considered by Baez and Stay (2009).
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