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SIGPLAN
2008
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Addressing the disconnect between the good and the popular
For several decades universities have taught programming languages as a fundamental part of their undergraduate curriculum. These courses cover the core topics used in the design ...
Michael Hind
SIGPLAN
2008
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Programming languages: fundamental concepts for expanding and disciplining the mind
In this white paper, we propose a list of essential concepts of programming languages, and discuss the techniques we have used to teach these concepts. Categories and Subject Desc...
Mitchell Wand, Daniel P. Friedman
CC
2007
Springer
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Communication vs. Computation
We initiate a study of tradeoffs between communication and computation in well-known communication models and in other related models. The fundamental question we investigate is t...
Prahladh Harsha, Yuval Ishai, Joe Kilian, Kobbi Ni...
CC
2007
Springer
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An Improved Analysis of Linear Mergers
Mergers are procedures that, with the aid of a short random string, transform k (possibly dependent) random sources into a single random source, in a way that ensures that if one ...
Zeev Dvir, Amir Shpilka
CC
2007
Springer
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If NP Languages are Hard on the Worst-Case, Then it is Easy to Find Their Hard Instances
We prove that if NP ⊆ BPP, i.e., if SAT is worst-case hard, then for every probabilistic polynomial-time algorithm trying to decide SAT, there exists some polynomially samplable ...
Dan Gutfreund, Ronen Shaltiel, Amnon Ta-Shma
CC
2007
Springer
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The Complexity of Membership Problems for Circuits Over Sets of Natural Numbers
Abstract. The problem of testing membership in the subset of the natural numbers produced at the output gate of a {∪, ∩,− , +, ×} combinational circuit is shown to capture a...
Pierre McKenzie, Klaus W. Wagner