CSE 143, Winter 2018

ERROR: Your web browser does not have JavaScript enabled. This web site requires JavaScript to function properly. If you are using an add-on such as NoScript or Ad-Block, you may need to add an exception for this web site.

Honors Section

This quarter we are reading Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari.

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

Meeting time

Wed 4:30-6:20 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

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

1/10	no reading
1/17	Chapter 1
1/24	Chapter 2
1/31	Chapter 3
2/7	Chapters 4-6
2/14	Chapter 7
2/21	Chapter 8
2/28	Chapter 9
3/7	Chapters 10-11