Tribute to Professor T. C. Hu, March 2018 @GabrielRobins

Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

A tribute to Professor T. C. Hu by Professor Gabriel Robins (recorded in March 2018). For more details, please see http://www.cs.virginia.edu/robins and http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hu as well as http://vlsicad.ucsd.edu/~abk

Tribute to Professor T. C. Hu, March 2018

$Theory of Computation (CS3102), Lecture 16, Professor Gabriel Robins, Spring 2018 Panopto This lecture is part of a course on the Theory of Computation, by Professor Gabriel Robins at the University of Virginia (CS3102 Spring 2018), with PowerPoint slides at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/cs3102 and other related videos at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/videos.html Specific topics covered in this lecture: computational universality, the Church-Turing thesis, equivalent computational systems, smallest universal Turing machine, computational universality of toys / nuts-and-bolts / water pipes / billiards, complex gravitational systems, chaos and the butterfly effect, computable puzzles and games, chess, Jeopardy, AlphaGo, self-driving cars and Tesla Model S, uncomputable things: humor / emotions / weather / turbulence / tsunamis / elections / compound pendulums, fractals, algorithmic art, context-sensitive grammars and languages$

Jennifer and Karem dancing, Feb 2026 (2 of 3)

Theory of Computation (CS3102), Lecture 11, Professor Gabriel Robins, Spring 2018 (Panopto)

Theory of Computation (CS3102), Lecture 13, Professor Gabriel Robins, Spring 2018

Gabe and Meghan dancing - Chivalry is Dead

Myrta and Gabe dancing at Brixx, Feb 2026

Theory of Computation (CS6160) Lecture 08 (Part 2 of 2), Professor Gabriel Robins

Theory of Computation (CS3102), Lecture 25, Professor Gabriel Robins, Spring 2018 Panopto