Leó Szilárd invented a feedback protocol1

[yoda jedi]

http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys1821.html

 

[granpa]

http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys1821.html

In 1929, Leó Szilárd invented a feedback protocol1 in which a hypothetical intelligence—dubbed Maxwell’s demon—pumps heat from an isothermal environment and transforms it into work. After a long-lasting and intense controversy it was finally clarified that the demon’s role does not contradict the second law of thermodynamics...

Here we demonstrate that a non-equilibrium feedback manipulation of a Brownian particle on the basis of information about its location achieves a Szilárd-type information-to-energy conversion.

 

[Nick666]

What does this mean ?

 

[yoda jedi]

http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys1821.html

achieves a Szilárd-type information-to-energy conversion.