2024 Fall COMPSCI 172 001 LEC 001

2024 Fall

COMPSCI 172 001 - LEC 001

Computability and Complexity

Avishay Tal

Aug 28, 2024 - Dec 13, 2024
Tu, Th
05:00 pm - 06:29 pm
Class #:31387
Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction
Time Conflict Enrollment Allowed

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 3
Enrolled: 65
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 68
Waitlist Max: 100
No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 8 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Final Exam

THU, DECEMBER 19TH
11:30 am - 02:30 pm
Cory 277

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Course Catalog Description

Finite automata, Turing machines and RAMs. Undecidable, exponential, and polynomial-time problems. Polynomial-time equivalence of all reasonable models of computation. Nondeterministic Turing machines. Theory of NP-completeness: Cook's theorem, NP-completeness of basic problems. Selected topics in language theory, complexity and randomness.

Class Notes

* Time conflicts ARE allowed.

* NO Alternate final exam offered.

Rules & Requirements

Requisites

  • Undergraduate Students: College of Engineering declared majors and L&S Computer Science

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Reserved Seats

Current Enrollment

No Reserved Seats

Textbooks & Materials

See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.

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