18.404/6.840 Fall 2017
Introduction to the Theory of Computation
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- Lecturer:
Michael Sipser
Office hours: Tuesdays 4:10-6:00
Office: 2-438, Phone: 253-4992, sipser-at-mit.edu
- TA: Saeed Mehraban, mehraban-at-mit.edu
- TA: Srini Raghuraman, srirag-at-mit.edu
- TA: Rishad Rahman, rrrahman-at-mit.edu
- TA: Hongyi Shi, hongyis-at-mit.edu
Office hours
- Mondays 4:00pm-6:00pm, 2-429, Saeed.
- Tuesdays 12:30pm-2:30pm, 2-361, Rishad.
- Tuesdays 4:10pm-6:00pm, 2-438, Mike.
- Wednesdays 2:00pm-4:00pm, 2-143, Hongyi.
- Wednesdays 4:00pm-6:00pm, 2-361, Srini.
Lectures are held in room 2-190 on Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 2:30 to 4:00.
The one-hour recitations meet Fridays in room 2-139 at the following times:
- 12:00pm, Rishad
- 1:00pm, Saeed
- 2:00pm, Srini
- 3:00pm, Hongyi
Midterm exam: Thursday, October 26, 2:30-4:00, top floor in Walker
(Building 50).
Final exam: Monday, December 18, 9am-Noon, duPont Gym (W31).
Introduction to the Theory of Computation, 3rd edition,
Sipser, published by Cengage, 2013.
It has an
errata web site.
You may use the 2nd edition, but it is missing some additional practice
problems.
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