COM3710 Winter 2000 Syllabus

Professor Fell

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Text:

  1. Sipser, Michael, "Introduction to the Theory of Computation", PWS Publishing Company, Boston, 1997.

Recommended Reading:

  • Retaled Texts:
    1. Harry R. Lewis and Christos H. Papadimitrou, "Elements of the Theory of Computation, Second Edition", Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998.
    2. Daniel I. A. Cohen, "Introduction to Computer Theory, Second Edition", John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1997.
    3. John E. Hopcroft and Jeffrey D. Ullman, "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1979.
  • Biography:
    1. Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing, the enigma", Simon and Schuster, New York, 1983.
  • Light Reading:
    1. Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon", Avon Books, New York, 1999.
    2. Neal Stephenson, "The Diamond Age", Bantam Books, New York, 1995.
    3. Neal Stephenson, "Snow Crash", Bantam Books, New York, 1992.
    4. David Brin, "Earth", Bantam Books, New York, 1990.
    5. Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky, "The Turing Option", Warner Books, 1992.
  • Not-So-Light Reading:
    1. Douglas R. Hofstadter, "Gödel, Escher, Bach", Random House, Inc., New York, 1989.

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