Digital Visionary and M.I.T. Professor Edward Fredkin Dies

Edward Fredkin, founder of pioneer artificial intelligence startup and advocate of theory that universe acts like single computer, passes away at 88.
Though lacking formal degree, Fredkin became professor at prestigious university and helped advance field of reversible computing.
Fredkin's company developed programmable film readers and reverse-osmosis technology to convert seawater into freshwater.
Colleagues praised Fredkin as fountain of ideas who conceived more in one lifetime than most do in many.
Fredkin theorized that universe functions like immense computing system following universal laws of physics.