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This course provides a challenging introduction to some of the central ideas of theoretical computer science. It attempts to present a vision of "computer science beyond computers": that is, CS as a set of mathematical tools for understanding complex systems such as universes and minds. Beginning in antiquity—with Euclid's algorithm and oth
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- electrical engineering and computer science
- computer science
- theoretical computer science
- logic
- turing machines
- computability
- finite automata
- godel
- complexity
- polynomial time
- efficient algorithms
- reducibility
- p and np
- np completeness
- private key cryptography
- public key cryptography
- pac learning
- quantum computing
- quantum algorithms
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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6.374 examines the device and circuit level optimization of digital building blocks. Topics covered include: MOS device models including Deep Sub-Micron effects; circuit design styles for logic, arithmetic and sequential blocks; estimation and minimization of energy consumption; interconnect models and parasitics; device sizing and logical
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- electrical engineering and computer science
- digital integrated circuit
- device
- circuit
- digital
- mos
- digital integrated circuit
- device
- circuit
- digital
- mos
- deep sub-micron effects
- circuit design
- logic
- interconnect models; parasitics
- device sizing
- timing
- clock skew
- jitter; clock distribution techniques
- memory architectures
- circuits
- sense amplifiers
- spice
- hspice
- magi
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This course focuses on the study of problems concerning our concept of knowledge, our knowledge of the past, our knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of ourselves and others, and our knowledge of the existence and properties of physical objects in our immediate environment.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- knowledge
- belief
- foundationalism
- reliabilism
- epistemology
- ontology
- theory
- reliable
- thoughts
- feelings
- existence
- objects
- properties
- physical
- noumenal
- environment
- partial
- external
- world
- skepticism
- empirical
- a priori
- truth
- justified
- justification
- true
- false
- probability
- externalist
- logic
- decision
- choice
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This course is an introduction to the philosophy of language. It examines different views on the nature of meaning, truth and reference, with special focus on the problem of understanding how linguistic communication works.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- nature of meaning
- reference
- truth
- and their relationships
- relationships between language and logic
- language and knowledge
- language and reality
- language and acts performed through its use
- logic
- linguistics
- language
- philosophy
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An intensive seminar on the foundations of analytic philosophy for first-year graduate students. A large selection of classic texts, from Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, is covered in this course.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- frege
- russell
- wittgenstein
- moore
- ayer
- tarski
- austin
- analytic philosophy
- truth
- language
- logic
- logical positivism
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The objective of the graduate-level course is to give people a sense of what "accounting for vagueness" is all about, why it's hard, and why it's important. This will involve surveying some prominent accounts of vagueness.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- vagueness
- sorites paradox
- truth
- supervaluationism
- epistemicism
- contextualism
- nihilism
- relativism
- logical revisionism
- interdeterminacy
- language
- inexact knowledge
- logic
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This course is the second of the three parts of our graduate introduction to semantics. The others are 24.970 Introduction to Semantics and 24.954 Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory. Like the other courses, this one is not meant as an overview of the field and its current developments. Our aim is to help you to develop the ability for semantic
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- linguistics and philosophy
- semantics
- logic
- meaning
- syntactic systems
- generative grammar
- displacement
- intensional semantics
- hintikka's idea
- accessibility relations
- modality
- quantificational theory of modality
- material implication analysis
- strict implication analysis
- tense
- conditionals
- progressive
- perfect
- de re
- de dicto
- raised subjects
- scope paradox
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This course focuses on one particular aspect of the history of computing: the use of the computer as a scientific instrument. The electronic digital computer was invented to do science, and its applications range from physics to mathematics to biology to the humanities. What has been the impact of computing on the practice of science? Is th
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- science technology and society
- computers
- history
- digital
- scientific instrument
- applied science
- meteorology
- nuclear physics
- logic
- mathematics
- cognitive psychology
- biochemistry
- aerospace
- medicine
- supercomputing
- distributed computing
- linguistics
- humanities
- hypertext
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Western philosophy and theoretical mathematics were born together, and the cross-fertilization of ideas in the two disciplines was continuously acknowledged throughout antiquity. In this course, we read works of ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics, and investigate the way in which ideas of definition, reason, argument and proof, rationality and irrationality, number, quality and quantity, truth, and even the idea of an idea were shaped by the interplay of philosophic and mathematical inquiry.
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- special programs
- mathematics
- geometry
- history
- philosophy
- greek philosophy
- plato
- euclid
- aristotle
- rene descartes
- nicomachus
- francis bacon
- number
- irrational number
- ratio
- ethics
- logos
- logic
- ancient knowing
- modern knowing
- greek conception of number
- idea of number
- courage
- justice
- pursuit of truth
- truth as a surd
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This course develops logical, empirically based arguments using statistical techniques and analytic methods. Elementary statistics, probability, and other types of quantitative reasoning useful for description, estimation, comparison, and explanation are covered. Emphasis is on the use and limitations of analytical techniques in planning practice.
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- urban studies and planning
- statistics
- statistical methods
- quantitative reasoning
- variability
- numeracy
- measurement
- stata
- logic
- probability
- inferential statistics
- regression
- census
- bivariate
- multivariate
- normal curve
- research design
- decision tree
- utility
- planning
- distribution
- city planning
- scatterplot
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Published by: University of Notre Dame | Language: English
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This course is designed as a "topics-based" introduction to philosophy. What this means is that instead of working through the history of philosophy focusing on great historical figures and their views on different topics, we will focus on great philosophical topics and look at what historical and contemporary writers have said about them. Topics to be addressed will include the existence of God, the relation between the mind and the body, human freedom, and the foundations of morality.
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- philosophy
- dualism
- human freedom
- philosophy
- ontological argument
- foundations of morality
- courseware
- logic
- compatibilism
- existence of god
- mind and the body
- free will
- determinism
- ethics
- open
- notre dame
- ocw
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Bertrand Russell suggested that philosophical theories can be tested by their ability to deal with logical puzzles. This is the approach to philosophy that we will take in this course. The puzzles with which we will be concerned are paradoxes: sets of propositions each member of which is intuitively true but which nonetheless seem jointly inconsistent. Paradoxes of various sorts have been a focus of study in almost every area of philosophy; accordingly, this course will use paradoxes as a tool to raise questions about the following topics, among others: the nature of space and time; the nature of physical objects and change; the possibility of an omniscient and/or omnipotent God; the rules which govern what we rationally ought to believe, and what we rationally ought to do. We will also discuss more purely logical paradoxes such as the sorites, the liar, and Russell's paradox. A subsidiary aim of the course will be to help students to appreciate the importance of consistent beliefs and to improve their ability to think clearly about the logical relations between claims.
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- computer science
- theoretical computer science
- logic
- turing machines
- computability
- finite automata
- godel
- complexity
- polynomial time
- efficient algorithms
- reducibility
- p and np
- np completeness
- private key cryptography
- public key cryptography
- pac learning
- quantum computing
- quantum algorithms
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- theoretical computer science
- logic
- turing machines
- computability
- finite automata
- godel
- complexity
- polynomial time
- efficient algorithms
- reducibility
- p and np
- np completeness
- private key cryptography
- public key cryptography
- pac learning
- quantum computing
- quantum algorithms
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- circuit
- digital
- mos
- deep sub-micron effects
- circuit design
- logic
- interconnect models; parasitics
- device sizing
- timing
- clock skew
- jitter; clock distribution techniques
- memory architectures
- circuits
- sense amplifiers
- spice
- hspice
- magi
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- tarski
- austin
- analytic philosophy
- truth
- language
- logic
- logical positivism
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