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Applicability of Church-Turing thesis to interactive models of computation

Paul Wegner and Dina Goldin have for over a decade been publishing papers and books arguing primarily that the Church-Turing thesis is often misrepresented in the CS Theory community and elsewhere. ...
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Which model of computation is “the best”?

In 1937 Turing described a Turing machine. Since then many models of computation have been decribed in attempt to find a model which is like a real computer but still simple enough to design and ...
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Time complexity of Bellman-Held-Karp algorithm for TSP, take 2

A recent question discussed the now-classical dynamic programming algorithm for TSP, due independently to Bellman and Held-Karp. The algorithm is universally reported to run in $O(2^n n^2)$ time. ...
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Are there any models of computation currently being studied with the possibility of being more powerful than Turing Machines? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What would it mean to disprove Church-Turing thesis? Are there any models of computation currently being studied with the possibility of being more powerful than Turing ...
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Provable gaps between decision tree complexity and “true” complexity

The title is a little misleading: but hopefully the question isn't: Grønlund and Pettie's new result showing that 3SUM has only $O(n^{3/2})$ decision tree complexity got me wondering: Is there a ...
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What is known about the effectiveness of reliable computing?

How well has the following problem been investigated in TCS? (I apologize if the problem statement sounds vague!) Given a Model of Computation MC (Turing Machine, Cellular Automata, Kolmogorov-...