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COS 451 - Automata, Computability, and Languages


Fundamentals of formal languages and the mathematical theory of computation; finite-state automata, nondeterminism, regular expressions, and Kleene’s Theorem; context-free grammars, pushdown automata, the correspondence theorem and the pumping lemma; computability, Turing machines, and the halting problem.

Prerequisites: COS 301

Course Typically Offered: Spring

Credits: 3