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NOTE: This old web site is out of date. This is the course web site from a past quarter, 15wi (Winter 2015), but the current quarter is 25sp (Spring 2025). If you are a current student taking the course, this is not your class web site, and you should visit the current class web site instead.

Honors Section

This quarter we are reading Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door by Brian Krebs.

Students must attend seven of the planned nine sections to receive credit for the seminar.

Meeting time: tba

Wed 3:30-4:50 in CSE 503.

Reading assignments

1/7 no reading
1/14 chapters 1 & 2
1/21 no reading (guest speaker)
1/28 chapters 3 & 4
2/4 chapters 5 & 6
2/11 chapters 7 & 8
2/18 chapters 9 & 10
2/25 chapters 11 & 12
3/4 no meeting (Stuart at a conference)
3/11 epilogue

Automata

We discussed how to make a Finite State Machine and a Turing Machine. I used a program called JFLAP to build these machines: