Circuit complexity before the dawn of the new millennium

Eric Allender

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Abstract

The 1980's saw rapid and exciting development of techniques for proving lower bounds in circuit complexity. This pace has slowed recently, and there has even been work indicating that quite different proof techniques must be employed to advance beyond the current frontier of circuit lower bounds. Although this has engendered pessimism in some quarters, there have in fact been many positive developments in the past few years showing that significant progress is possible on many fronts. This paper is a (necessarily incomplete) survey of the state of circuit complexity as we await the dawn of the new millennium.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationFoundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science - 16th Conference 1996, Proceedings
EditorsVijay Chandru, V. Vinay
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1-18
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)3540620346, 9783540620341
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996
Event16th Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, 1996 - Hyderabad, India
Duration: Dec 18 1996Dec 20 1996

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1180
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other16th Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, 1996
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityHyderabad
Period12/18/9612/20/96

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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