Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science: Computability

Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science: Computability

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Some uncomputable functions

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Some uncomputable functions

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Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science: Computability

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  1. 1 15-251: Great Theoretical ideas in Computer Science Lecture 22
  2. 2 What is a computation/algorithm?
  3. 3 Turing's inspiration: computers (usage 2)
  4. 4 The finite control (AKA transition rules)
  5. 5 Formal definition of Turing Machines
  6. 6 Decidable languages
  7. 7 TM programming exercises & tricks
  8. 8 Universal Turing Machine
  9. 9 TM's: good definition of computation?
  10. 10 Church-Turing Thesis: "Any natural / reasonable notion of computation can be simulated by a TM."
  11. 11 Describing Turing Machines
  12. 12 Some uncomputable functions
  13. 13 Does the following program (written in Maple) print out "HELLO WORLD" ?
  14. 14 The Halting Problem is Undecidable

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