Computability, Complexity & Algorithms

Computability, Complexity & Algorithms

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Course details

Syllabus

Lesson 1: Computability

* Languages & Countability* Turing Machines* The Church-Turing Thesis* Universality* Undecidability

Lesson 2: Complexity

* P and NP* NP-Completeness* NP-Complete Problems* The Golden Ticket

Lesson 3: Algorithms

* Dynamic Programming* Fast Fourier Transform* Maximum Flow* Maximum Bipartite Matching* Linear Programming* Duality* Randomized Algorithms* Approximation Algorithms

Prerequisite

None

Instructors

  • Charles Brubaker - Charles Brubaker earned his PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2009. He then taught high school computer science and coached basketball at Pace Academy in Atlanta for 4 years. In 2012, inspired by Udacity, he began recording his lectures on a tablet, creating online quizzes, and automatically grading assignments to give his students instant feedback. The success of this enterprise convinced him that Udacity represented the wave of the future in education, and he joined the company in the summer of 2013.
  • Lance Fortnow - Lance Fortnow is professor and chair of the School of Computer Science of the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on computational complexity and its applications to economic theory.Fortnow received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at MIT in 1989 under the supervision of Michael Sipser. Before he joined Georgia Tech in 2012, Fortnow was a professor at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, a senior research scientist at the NEC Research Institute and a one-year visitor at CWI and the University of Amsterdam. Since 2007, Fortnow holds an adjoint professorship at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago.
  • Hariharan Venkateswaran - H. Venkateswaran obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1986. He then joined the faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor, where he has pursued his research interests in Complexity Theory, Information Security, and Parallel Computation. A renowned teacher on campus, he was awarded "The William A “Gus” Baird Faculty Teaching Award" in 2008.

Editor

The Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech or GT, is a co-educational public research university located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is part of the wider University System of Georgia network. Georgia Tech has offices in Savannah (Georgia, USA), Metz (France), Athlone (Ireland), Shanghai (China), and Singapore.

Georgia Tech's reputation is built on its engineering and computer science programmes, which are among the best in the world5,6. The range of courses on offer is complemented by programmes in the sciences, architecture, humanities and management.

Platform

Udacity is a for-profit educational organization founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky offering massive open online courses (MOOCs). According to Thrun, the origin of the name Udacity comes from the company's desire to be "audacious for you, the student". While it originally focused on offering university-style courses, it now focuses more on vocational courses for professionals.

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