21st Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC'06)
Oracles Are Subtle But Not Malicious
Prague, Czech Republic
July 16-July 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2596-2
Theoretical computer scientists have been debating the role of oracles since the 1970?s. This paper illustrates both that oracles can give us nontrivial insights about the barrier problems in circuit complexity, and that they need not prevent us from trying to solve those problems.