Boston University
Details for Peter Gacs

Peter Gacs

Position Professor
Telephone 617-353-2015
E-mail gacs@bu.edu
Office MCS 277
Personal homepage http://www.cs.bu.edu/~gacs

Biography

Professor Gacs obtained his Masters degree in mathematics at the Roland Eotvos University in Budapest, 1970, and his doctoral degree at the J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M., Germany in 1978.

His research interests include information theory, algorithmic information theory and the theory of reliable computation, in particular in a homogenous medium like a probabilistic cellular automaton. He is also interested in other theoretical connections of randomness and computation.

Courses

Theory of computation, complexity, algorithms, data structures.