UMBC CMSC451h, Automata Theory & Formal Languages, Spring 2010

News Archive

• [Thu May 13 08:55 2010]
  Grades on Blackboard have been updated through Quiz 5 and Homework 11. The only missing grades are the final exam and Homework 12, worth 26% and 3.25% of your grade respectively. So, the total number of obtainable points is 70.75. Thus, 90% of points so far is 63.675 points, 80% is 56.6 points and 70% is 49.525.

• [Mon May 03 11:30 2010]
  Homework 12 posted. Note: the due date for Homework 12 is pushed back to Thursday 5/13.

• [Sun Apr 25 00:15 2010]
  Homework 11 posted.

• [Tue Apr 20 17:15 2010]
  The first question of Homework 10 was a duplicate. Let's go with 3 questions this week.

• [Tue Apr 20 00:05 2010]
  Homework 10 posted.

• [Tue Apr 13 07:48 2010]
  Homework 9 posted.

• [Thu Apr 08 09:40 2010]
  Homework and quiz scores have been brought up to date on Blackboard. We've had 6 homework assignments and 3 quizzes graded for 19.5 and 21 points, respectively. (Recall that with 1 cancelled homework assignment, each is worth 3.25 points.) So, the total number of points obtainable is 19.5 + 21 = 40.5 points. You can look at the Weighted Total column of your grades and compare it against 36.45, 32.40 and 28.35, which are 90%, 80% and 70% of 40.5 points.

• [Tue Apr 06 15:28 2010]
  Homework 8 posted.

• [Tue Mar 30 08:12 2010]
  Homework 7 posted.

• [Tue Mar 23 07:45 2010]
  Syllabus updated.

• [Tue Mar 23 07:25 2010]
  Homework 6 posted.

• [Mon Mar 15 01:18 2010]
  Grades now available on Blackboard.

• [Mon Mar 08 21:27 2010]
  Homework 5 posted.

• [Mon Mar 01 11:50 2010]
  Homework 4 posted.

• [Wed Feb 24 07:55 2010]
  The episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where the Enterprise gets stuck in a time loop (like a DFA) is called Cause and Effect (Season 5, Episode 18). Here's the write up on Wikipedia and video on YouTube. The show opens with the Enterprise-D blowing up... classic.

• [Tue Feb 23 01:25 2010]
  Homework 3 posted.

• [Sun Feb 14 15:25 2010]
  Updated syllabus to reflect school closings.

• [Sun Feb 14 01:20 2010]
  Homework 2 due date pushed back one week due to the snow storm. (Homework 13 is canceled.)

  Also, for Question #3 in Homework 2, do part b only, since the answer to part a is in the textbook.

• [Mon Feb 08 14:15 2010]
  Homework 2 posted.

• [Tue Feb 02 00:38 2010]
  Homework 1 posted.

• [Sun Jan 24 22:48 2010]
  Course description and syllabus available in PDF (hard copies will be distributed in class, too.): description.pdf and syllabus.pdf.

• [Sun Jan 24 22:48 2010]
  Note: Be aware of the schedule of in-class quizzes listed in the syllabus! The first quiz is on Thursday, February 25.

• [Sun Jan 24 22:48 2010]
  Web page up.