UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Computer Science/Math 332
THEORY OF COMPUTING
September 2006
Title:   Theory of Computing
     
Instructor:   Cezar Câmpeanu
     
Email:   ccampeanu < at > upei < dot > ca
     
Office:   CASS 405
     
Tel:   (902)566-0485
     
Textbook:   Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation, by J. Hopcroft, R. Motwani and J. Ullman, Third Edition, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-321-45536-3.
     
   
     
Textbook web site:   http://www-db.stanford.edu/~ullman/ialc.html
     
Course web site:   Go To: http://www.csit.upei.ca,
Then follow the links: Faculty and Staff, Cezar Campeanu, Teaching, Fall 2006, CS332
     
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, Thursday 11:30 - 12:45, KCI 202
     
Office Hours:   Tuesday, Thursday 1:00-2:30, or by appointment.
     
Final Exam:   Friday, December 8, 2:00pm, Room CASS 104, changed to GYM.
     
:   Friday, December 8, 2:00pm, Room CASS 104, changed to GYM.
     
Grading scheme:
Assignments Midterm Examination Final Examination
35% 30% 35%
   
Course Resources:
  1. Assignments
  2. Handouts
  3. Tentative Schedule
   
Important Notices: Please, check course web site periodically for updates. To view ps documents, you can download Aladdin Ghostview or another free viewer. To view PDF documents, you can download Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe site. For operating system like Linux, the viewers are included into the distribution (everything is free and very reliable - for pdf files, use gv or acroread, rather than xpdf). On Solaris workstation, you can download the files and view them with acroread (pdf) or ghostview (ps). To view them in your browser, you must enable the plug-in (Edit - Preferences - Navigator - Applications, select Portable Document Format (Postscript Document), Edit, click Application, and choose Acrobat, then click ok, and ok). For any problems concerning the CS332 pages, please contact me.
   
Note: Second year students and up that are interested in marking, please check with Michelle McKearney. They must fill out an application.
   
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