CSE 143, Spring 2017

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Honors Section

This quarter we are reading Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People by Stephen Wolfram.

Students must attend eight of the planned ten sections to receive credit for the seminar.

Meeting time

Wed 3:30-5:20 in CSE 503

Relevant Links

Robin Dunbar on Shakespeare
Smarties test from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Google Ngram data
Google Ngram viewer

Quine

We discussed how to write a quine in Java and came up with S.java.

Automata

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

click here to download JFLAP

click here to see a picture of our Turing Machine

click here to download the JFLAP file (save as palindrome.jff)

Reading assignments

3/29	no reading
4/5	Feynman, Goedel, Turing
4/12	von Neumann, Boole
4/19	Lovelace
4/26	Leibniz
5/3	Mandelbrot, Jobs, Minsky
5/10	Towle, Russel & Whitehead, Crandall
5/17	Ramanujan
5/24	Golomb
6/1	no reading