Instructors:

• Professor Max Mintz:
  
  
  • Office: CIS Department, 462 GRW
    
    
  • Office Hours: By Appointment
    
    
  • Phone: 898-7909
    
    
  • E-mail:mintz@cis.upenn.edu
    
    
  • Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mintz/home.html
    
    
• Teaching Assistants:
  
  

  Name:	E-Mail:	Office:	Office Hours:
  Tova Brooks	tmbrooks@seas.upenn.edu	TBA	TBA
  Anthony Curnes	acurnes@seas.upenn.edu	TBA	TBA

Class Schedule:

• Lectures: Tuesday, Thursday 13:30-14:50, Room 315 TB
  
  
• Lectures/Recitations: Friday 14:00-14:50, Room 321 TB

Preliminary Examination Schedule:

• Preliminary Examination I: Friday 15 February, 14:00-14:50; Room: 321 TB
  
  
• Preliminary Examination II: Friday 28 March, 14:00-14:50; Room: 321 TB
  
  
• Preliminary Examination III: Friday 25 April, 14:00-14:50; Room: 321 TB
  
  
• NB: Makeup preliminary examinations will only be given for verified medical reasons. All makeup examinations are oral.

Weekly Quizzes:

• There will be weekly written quizzes lasting 10-15 minutes. The quizzes are scheduled on Fridays in those weeks when there is no preliminary examination scheduled. The purpose of the quizzes is to aid students in keeping current on the homework and lecture material. The subject material of the quizzes will be taken from the homework assignments and lectures. The tentative quiz schedule is: January 25; February 1, 8, 22, 29; March 7; and April 4, 11, 18. No makeup quizzes will be given.

Examination Policy:

• NB: All preliminary examinations and quizzes are closed-book examinations. No written notes, personal assistants, or calculators are permitted.

Written Assignments Policy:

• Written assignments (problem sets) will be given during lectures and the lecture/recitation. The problems will vary in difficulty and will be designed to reinforce and augment the material in the lectures and texts.
  
  
  • Assignments include: analytical work, derivations, proofs, algorithms, and computer program implementations.
    
    
• The assignments will be collected and graded. Each assignment must be submitted at the beginning of the class in which it is due. Late submissions will not be accepted.
  
  
• Solutions to the homework problems will be distributed in class.
  
  
• You are permitted to discuss the homework problems with other class members with the following limitations. These discussions are to be limited to high-level concepts. You are not permitted to copy or share written work or implementation details. It is understood that the work that you submit may be based on these discussions but has not been either copied directly from another student's paper nor is it, in part or in whole, the product of impermissible collaboration.
  
  
• All written work must be neat, well-organized, and include sufficient explanations in the delineation of the solutions. Messy, poorly organized, or illegible material will be returned ungraded.
  
  
• Each homework set will be graded based on the following grade levels: E (excellent), S (satisfactory), U (unsatisfactory), NC (no credit).

Grading Policy:

• The final course grade will be based entirely on the three preliminary examinations, the comprehensive two-hour final examination, the aggregate quiz scores, and the homework assignments. No exemptions from examinations will be made. The final grade will be based on the following units: (1) the quizzes; (2) prelim I; (3) prelim II; (4) prelim III; (5) the final exam, part I; and (6) the final exam, part II. The sum of these six components will constitute 90% of the final course grade. The remaining 10% of the final course grade will be based on the aggregate homework scores.
  
  

Texts:

• In lieu of a required text, Lecture Notes will be distributed in class throughout the semester.

CIT 596 Course Topics:

1. Probability Theory
   
   
2. Graph Models
   
   
3. Relations
   
   
4. Finite State Systems
   
   
5. Automata
   
   
6. Languages