Fall 2005 Course Descriptions

COMP 170 Theory of Computation

A. Laing
MW 5:30p-6:45p, Halligan Hall 106
L+ Block

Models of computation: Turing machines, pushdown automata, and finite automata. Grammars and formal languages including context-free languages and regular sets. Important problems including the halting problem and language equivalence theorems.

Prerequisite: COMP 15 and MATH 22.


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