Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 18.400J (Spring 2005) 
• Course Title:
• Automata, Computability, and Complexity 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Nancy Lynch 
• Course Introduction:
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  6.045J / 18.400J Automata, Computability, and Complexity
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2005

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a full set of homework assignments. In addition, the recitation section includes many practice problems. 6.045J is a course in the department's "Theoretical Computer Science" concentration.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course is offered to undergraduates and introduces basic mathematical models of computation and the finite representation of infinite objects. The course is slower paced than 6.840J/18.404J. Topics covered include: 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, and interactive proof systems.

  
  

  *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.