5 Wednesdays (First class meeting will be February 8), 3:30-5:30pm, Phelps Hall 1401
Enrollment Code: 59725
We will investigate the ultimate limits of what one can do with a computer. Questions that we will discuss are: Can computers think? How well can computers do math? How good are computers at board games like chess or Go? In our discussions we will also look at non-standard computers like neural networks, DNA computing and quantum computers.
Professor Wim Van Dam, Computer Science, research interests are quantum computing, theory of computation, and information theory.
