Theory of Computing is an online open access journal dedicated to theoretical computer science

Theoretical computer science

Theoretical computer science is a division or subset of general computer science and mathematics which focuses on more abstract or mathematical aspects of computing....

. The journal was founded in 2005 amidst growing concerns about the financial difficulties of university libraries around the world faced with rising costs in subscriptions to scientific journals owned by commercial publishers

Academic publishing

Academic publishing describes the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in journal article, book or thesis form. The part of academic written output that is not formally published but merely printed up or posted is often called...

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The journal is hosted on servers of the University of Chicago's

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 Department of Computer Science and its current Editor-in-Chief is László Babai

László Babai

László Babai is a Hungarian professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on computational complexity theory, algorithms, combinatorics, and finite groups, with an emphasis on the interactions between these fields...

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External links

• Theory of Computing – An Open Access Journal (home page)