Computational complexity since 1980

  • Authors:
  • Russell Impagliazzo

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

  • Venue:
  • FSTTCS '05 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The field of computational complexity is reaching what could be termed middle age, with over forty years having passed since the first papers defining the discipline. With this metaphor in mind, the early nineteeneighties represented the end of adolescence for the area, the time when it stopped wondering what it would be when it grew up. During the childhood period of the sixties, research centered on establishing the extent to which computational complexity, or the inherrent computational resources required to solve a problem, actually existed and was well-defined.