CMSC-641: Algorithms (fall 99)
Instructor
- Dr. Alan T. Sherman
- Email: sherman@umbc.edu
- Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-5pm, ECS 225j
- Tele: (410) 455-2666
Teaching Assistants
Head TA:
- Shanshan Liu
- Email: sliu@cs.umbc.edu
- tele: (410) 455-3093
- Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12noon-1pm in ECS 334
Supporting TA:
- Liang Xu (Johnson)
- Email: lxu2@cs.umbc.edu
- tele: (410) 455-2861
- Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1-2pm in ECS 334
Supporting TA:
-
Vasundhara Puttangunta
- Email: vputta1@umbc.edu
- tele: (410) 455-2862
- Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7-8pm in ECS 334
Class Meetings
- Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30-6:45pm
- Social Science (SS) 105 (moved from SS 005)
Textbook
Cormen, Thomas, Charles E. Leiserson, and Ronald L. Rivest,
Introduction to Algorithms, MIT Press and McGraw Hill
(1992?), second edition. [The core material of CMSC-641 covers
Chapters 16, 17.4-5, 18, 20-22, 27, 28-30, 36-37.]
Notes: (1) The third edition is expected to appear soon.
(2) There is an accompanying CD Rom with animated algorithms
from MIT Press.
Course Materials
Important Dates
- Exam I: Tuesday, October 21.
- Exam II: Tuesday, November 23.
- Project Due (version 1): Tuesday, December 7.
- Project Due (version 2): Tuesday, December 14.
- Final Examination: 6-8pm, Thursday, December 16.
Alan T. Sherman, sherman@cs.umbc.edu
Last modified: September 21, 1999