The 2010 Milner Lecture
Logic and Computational Complexity: A Personal Perspective
Professor Stephen A. Cook
University of Toronto
5pm on Friday 9 July 2010
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
Crichton Street, Edinburgh
and afterwards in the Forum Atrium, 10 Crichton Street, for a reception.
Abstract: I discuss my encounters with mechanical theorem proving, NP-completeness, propositional proof systems, and formal theories capturing complexity classes.
Bio: Stephen Cook is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto. He has made several seminal contributions to logic and computational complexity. He formalized the notion of NP-completeness in a 1971 paper, and received the Turing award in 1982 for his work on computational complexity. His conjecture that P is not equal to NP remains open and is among the seven famous Clay Millennium Prize problems.