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CS 6753 Theory of Computation
Description:
Introduction to the theory of computation. Formal languages and automata theory. Deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions, regular languages, context-free languages. Pumping theorems for regular and context-free languages. Turing machines, recognizable and decidable languages. Limits of computability: the Halting Problem, undecidable and unrecognizable languages, reductions to prove undecidability. Time complexity, P and NP, Cook-Levin theorem, NP-completeness.
Credits: 3:0:0:3
Pre-Requisite: CS 6003 or instructor’s permission
Co-Requisite: none
Notes: none
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