CS121/CSCI E-207 FALL 2012
Schedule
(colors indicate weeks)
Readings are in Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation, 2nd ed. unless otherwise specified.
| # | Day | Date | Topic & Lecture Notes | Readings | Other Handouts | Problem Sets CS121 | Problem Sets CSCI E-207 |
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| 1 | Tu | Sept. 4 | Introduction and Overview | Preface |
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Unit 1: Finite Automata |
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| 2 | Th | Sept. 6 | Ch. 0 | ps0.pdf ps0.zip (source) |
ps0ext.pdf ps0ext.zip (source) Section 0 recording |
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| 3 | Tu | Sept. 11 | Finite Automata | Sec. 1.1-1.2 |
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PS 0 due ps1.pdf ps1.zip (source) |
ps1ext.pdf ps1ext.zip (source) |
| 4 | Th | Sept. 13 | NFAs vs. DFAs, Closure Properties | Sec 1.1-1.2 | PS 0 due (Fri) Section 1 recording |
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| 5 | Tu | Sept. 18 | Regular Expressions | Sec 1.3 | PS 1 due (Wed) ps2.pdf ps2.zip (source) |
ps2ext.pdf ps2ext.zip (source) |
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| 6 | Th | Sept. 20 | Regular Languages, Countability | Sec 1.3, Sec 4.2 (pp. 174-178) |
section2.pdf | PS 1 due (Fri) Section 2 recording |
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| 7 | Tu | Sept. 25 | Nonregular languages | Sec 4.2 (pp. 174-178), Sec. 1.4 |
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PS 2 due ps3.pdf ps3.zip (source) |
ps3ext.pdf ps3ext.zip (source) |
| 8 | Th | Sept. 27 | Pumping & More | Sec. 1.4 | PS 2 due (Fri) | ||
Unit 2: Context-Free Languages |
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| 9 | Tu | Oct. 2 | Context-free Grammars | Sec. 2.1 |
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PS 3 due ps4.pdf ps4.zip (source) |
ps4ext.pdf ps4ext.zip (source) Section 3 recording |
| 10 | Th | Oct. 4 | Pushdown Automata | Sec. 2.2 | section4.pdf | PS 3 due (Fri) | |
| 11 | Tu | Oct. 9 | CFGs vs. PDAs, Non-CF Languages | Sec. 2.2, 2.3 |
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PS 4 due ps5.pdf ps5.zip (source) Note: PS5 revised 10/12 |
ps5ext.pdf ps5ext.zip (source) Note: PS5 revised 10/12 Section 4 recording |
| 12 | Th | Oct. 11 | CF Recognition | Sec. 2.1 | PS 4 due (Fri) | ||
Unit 3: Computability |
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| 13 | Tu | Oct. 16 | Turing Machines | Sec. 3.1 | PS 5 due |
Section 5 recording Note: fast-forward two minutes until I remember to turn on the microphone |
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| 14 | Th | Oct. 18 | The Church-Turing Thesis | Sec. 3.2, 3.3 | PS 5 due (Fri) | ||
| Tu | Oct. 23 | Midterm Examination |
ps6.pdf ps6.zip (source) |
ps6ext.pdf ps6ext.zip (source) |
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| 15 | Th | Oct. 25 | Recognizability & Decidability | Sec. 3.2, 3.3, 4.1 | section6.pdf | Section 6 recording | |
| 16 | Tu | Oct. 30 | Decidability & the Universal TM | Sec. 4.1, 4.2 | PS 6 due (WED) ps7.pdfps7.zip (source) |
ps7ext.pdf ps7ext.zip (source) |
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| 17 | Th | Nov. 1 | Undecidability | Sec. 4.2, 5.1 | section7.pdf | PS 6 due (Fri) | |
| 18 | Tu | Nov. 6 | Reducibility | Sec. 5.1, 5.3 | PS 7 due ps8.pdf ps8.zip (source) |
ps8ext.pdf ps8ext.zip (source) Section 7 recording |
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Unit 4: Computational Complexity |
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| 19 | Th | Nov. 8 | Computational Complexity | Sec. 7.1 | survey results section8.pdf |
PS 7 due (Fri) | |
| 20 | Tu | Nov. 13 | Polynomial Time | Sec. 7.2 | PS 8 due ps9.pdf ps9.zip (source) |
Section 8 recording ps9ext.pdf ps9ext.zip (source) |
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| 21 | Th | Nov. 15 | NP | Sec. 7.3 | section9.pdf | PS 8 due (Fri) | |
| 22 | Tu | Nov. 20 | P vs. NP, NP-completeness | Sec. 7.4, 7.5 |
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PS 9 due ps10.pdf ps10.zip (source) |
Section 9 recording ps10ext.pdf ps10ext.zip (source) |
| Th | Nov. 22 | No class - Thanksgiving |
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| 23 | Tu | Nov. 27 | More NP-completeness | Sec. 7.5 | section10.pdf |
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PS 9 due (Monday, November 26) |
| 24 | Th | Nov. 29 | Sec. 7.4, 10.4 | Section 10 recording | |||
| 25 | Tu | Dec. 4 | Sec. 10.4 | PS 10 due | |||
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PS 10 due (Friday, December 7) | ||||||
| Tue | Dec. 11 | Review Session 10am-noon, MD G-115 (will be taped) | |||||
| Fri | Dec. 14 | Review Session 6:30-8:30pm, MD G-115 (will not be taped) |
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| Mon | Dec. 17 | Final Examination |
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