| Title: | Theory of Computing | |
| Instructor: | Cezar Câmpeanu | |
| Email: | ccampeanu < at > upei < dot > ca | |
| Office: | CASS 408 | |
| Tel: | (902)566-0485 | |
| Textbook: |
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation 3rd Edition, by John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, and Jeffrey D. Ullman Addison Wesley, 2007, ISBN 13: 978-0321-46225-1 ISBN 10: 0-321-46225-4 |
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| Textbook web site: | http://catalogue.pearsoned.ca/educator/product/Introduction-to-Automata-Theory-Languages-and-Computation/9780321455369.page | |
| Textbook Stanford web site: | http://www-db.stanford.edu/~ullman/ialc.html | |
| Course web site: |
Go To: http://www.csit.upei.ca, |
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| Recommended reading: | Handbook of Formal Languages Vols. 1 - 3 Rozenberg, Grzegorz; Salomaa, Arto (Eds.) 1997, LXVIII, 2051 p. 272 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 3-540-61486-9 | |
| General description: | This course introduces automata theory, formal languages and computability. Topics include: finite automata, regular expressions, context-free and context-sensitive languages, Turing machines, recursive functions, recursive and recursively-enumerable sets, and unsolvable and intractable problems. | |
| Time and Location: | Tuesday and Thursday 1:00-2:15, MB 116 | |
| Office Hours: | Monday 3:00-4:00, Tuesday 11:30-12:30, Thursday 11:30-12:30 or anytime by appointment (please send email-) | |
| Midterm: |
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
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| Final Exam: |
Thursday, April 10th at 2:00 pm YSC GYM
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| Final MARKS: |
Everything Marked Please check your marks. They will be submitted to Registar's Office later, today.
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Have a nice Summer!
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| ACADEMIC HONESTY: | This course is committed to the principle of academic integrity. Submitted work is expected to reflect an individual effort. Copying or cheating on assignments or tests will be dealt with harshly. Students should read Academic Regulation 20 in the UPEI Calendar at page 61 (http://files.upei.ca/calendar.pdf). | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism: | The following link will help you identify and. avoid plagiarism http://resources.library.upei.ca/plagiarism/index.htm. | |
| Individual Work Expectations: | You are expected to write your own code, your own proofs, your own examples, and so on. Unless explicitly specified in the assignment's text, the submitted work should be all yours. | |
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| Note: | Second year students and up that are interested in marking, please check with Rita Stanley or Chris Vessey. They must fill out an application. | ||||||