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Instructor: Dr. Jim Sasaki

Computer Science Dept

  • SB 235 | 312-567-5150 | 312-567-5067 (Fax)
  • Dept. Computer Science | Illinois Institute of Technology
    10 West 31st Street | Chicago IL 60616

Teaching Assistants

  • Alaknantha Eswaradass (eswaala@iit.edu). Office hours Monday: 12:30 - 2:30 pm, SB 108.
  • Yanwei Wu (ywu24@iit.edu). Office hours Wednesday 9 - 11 am, SB 019B SB 108.

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Lecture Calendar

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[For the homework calendar, see the homework page.]

Week Date (Wed) Topic
1 January 18 Lecture 1: Languages & Set Theory.
2 25 Lecture 2: Regular Expressions and Finite Automata (revised).
3 February 1 Lecture 3: Finite automata: Closure properties and regular languages.
4 8 Lecture 4: Automata manipulations.
5 15 Lecture 5: State Minimization, CFLs and PDAs
6 22 Lecture 6: CFLs and PDAs
7 March 1 Lecture 7: PDAs, CFLs, and CFL Closure, and Pumping Lemmas (in-lecture version; cleaned-up version)
8 8 Lecture 8: CFL Pumping Lemma, CFL membership, DCFLs, Parsing.(in-lecture version; cleaned-up version) Sections 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7
9 15 No class - Spring Break
10 22 Exam 1 (Chapters 1 and 2); Lecture 9: Section 3.7.
11 29 Lecture 10: Exam 1 Discussion; LR Parsing; DCFL Properties
12 April 5 Lecture 11: Turing Machines
13 12 Lecture 12: Turing Machine Computations; Unrestricted Grammars
14 19 Exam 2 (Chapter 3.1 – 3.5); Lecture 13: Undecidability
15 26 Lecture 14: Undecidability and Computational Complexity
16 May 3 Lecture 15: Formal Languages for Proofs (Not on the Final Exam)
17 Final Exam: As specified by the Spring 2006 Final Exam schedule, our Final Exam will be 7:30 - 9:30 pm, Wednesday May 10.

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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006.

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