COM1350 Automata Theory Schedule

Spring 2002 - Professor Fell


(Subject to change)

Text

Sipser, Michael, "Introduction to the Theory of Computation", PWS Publishing Company, Boston, latest edition.

WeekDayDateTopicReadingSpecial
11March 28Intro / Pretest / Sets / StringsChapter 0 
22April 1Finite State Automatapages 31 - 44 
3April 2Finite State Automatapages 31 - 44 
4April 4Regular Operationspages 44 - 45 
35April 8Closure Theoremspages 45 - 47Homework 1 due
6April 9Nondeterministic Finite Automatapages 47 - 54 
7April 11NDFA --> DFApages 54 - 58 
48April 15Closure Theorems againpages 58 - 63 
9April 16Regular Expressions
Regular Expression --> DFA
pages 63 - 69Homework 2 due
10April 18Review  
511April 22  Exam 1
12April 23DFA --> Regular Expressionpages 69 - 76 
13April 25Pumping Lemma for Regular Languagespages 77 - 83 
614April 29Context-Free Grammarspages 91 - 97 
15April 30more Context-Free Grammars
DFA --> CFG
pages 91 - 97 
16May 2Pushdown Automatapages 101 - 106Homework 3 due
717May 6CFG to PDApages 106 - 110 
18May 7Pumping Lemma for Context Free Grammarspages 115 - 119 
19May 9Turing Machinespages 125 - 135 
820May 13more Turing Machinespages 125 - 135Homework 4 due
21May 14Review  
22May 16  Exam 2
923May 20Variations of Turing Machinespages 136 - 142 
24May 21What is an Algorithm
Church's Thesis
pages 142 - 147 
25May 23Decidability
Decidable Languages
pages 151 - 158 
1026May 28Diagonalization Method
The Universal Turing Machine
pages 159 - 164 
27May 30The Halting Problempages 165 - 168Homework 5 due
June 2 - June 7Final Exam Week


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