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Instructor
Home page of Prof.
K. J. Hintz with office room number, office hours, and contact
information.
Teaching Assistant
Ms. Prerna Arora
Office: S&T-I, Room 2D in Lab 2B
Office Hours: Wednesday 0930-1030, 1330-1630
other times by appointment
Email: parora@gmu.edu
Telephone: 703.993.1600
Lecture
Wednesdsay, 1920-2200
Location
Science & Tech II, Room15
Course Credit
3 hours
Exams
Makeup exams are rarely given. Requests for a delayed Final
Exam due to multiple tests (>2) in one day will ONLY be considered
if proper forms are completed and in my hands prior to the mid-semester
break. Students who are more than 15 minutes late for an exam may not
be admitted and will be assigned a grade of zero for the exam.
Students with Disabilities
If you need special assistance, please inform me soon so
that we can work something out.
Attendance at lectures is not graded but expected
Honor Code
You are encouraged to collaborate with other students on
homework and studying for the examinations. The normal honor code
applies to all examinations.
Grading
- Midterm: 40%
- Final Exam: 40%
- Homework: 20%
Homework
Homeworks are due at the beginning of class the week after
they are assigned . Late homeworks will be given 1/2 credit or less.
Milestones
Milestone Chart
Examinations
Makeup exams are rarely given. Requests for a delayed Final
Exam due to multiple tests (>2) in one day will ONLY be considered
if proper forms are completed and in my hands prior to the mid-semester
break.
A sample midterm exam
from Spring 2001 in *.pdf format. A sample final exam from Spring
2001 in *.pdf format. A second final
exam from Fall 1988 to work in class this coming week.
There will be a midterm and a final examination, both of
which will be closed book, closed notes, no electronic
devices.
Required text
D. Kelley, Automata and Formal Languages. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ:Prentice-Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-13-497777-7. LOC
QA76.9M35K45. For errata, go to link at top of page.
Suggested texts
- Shields, M. W., An Introduction to Automata Theory.
Blackwell Scientific Publications:Oxford, 1987, ISBN 0-632-01553-3 Pbk.
- P. R. Halmos, Naive Set Theory. Princeton,
NJ:VanNostrand, 1960, LOC 60-11059.
- W. M. L. Holcombe, Algebraic Automata Theory.
Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-521-23196-5. LOC
QA162.
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