Courses

3502. Theory of Computation

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: CSE 2050 or 2100; and 2500; open only to students in the School of Engineering, Cognitive Science majors, and declared Computer Science or Cognitive Science minors.

Grading Basis: Graded

Formal models of computation, such as finite state automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines, and their corresponding elements in formal languages (regular, context-free, recursively enumerable). The complexity hierarchy. Church's thesis and undecidability. NP completeness. Theoretical basis of design and compiler construction.


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