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6.045/18.400
Automata, Computability, and Complexity

Slower paced than 6.840J/18.404J. Introduces basic mathematical models of computation and the finite representation of infinite objects. Finite automata and regular languages. Context-free languages. Turing machines. Partial recursive functions. Church's Thesis. Undecidability. Reducibility and completeness. Time complexity and NP-completeness. Probabilistic computation. Interactive proof systems.

This course is offered Spring of 2004, from 11 to 12:30 (MW) in 37-212. Recitations will be held on Thursdays at 1pm in 34-304 and 4pm in 34-304. Office hours for the TA are Mondays 4-5pm in 32-G694 (actually somewhere near the TA's office in Stata Center, Gates Tower, Room 694) and by appointment.

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