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CS550 Formal Languages

Course Description( 3 credits )
An introduction to the mathematics and compiler theory underlying programming languages. Topics include finite automata, grammars, context-free languages, nondeterminism, pushdown automata, parsing. Turing machines.

Prerequisite : MA310 Discrete Mathematics.

Previously Taught :

Instructor :   Dr. Olga Chuyan

                    Dr. Stefan Ehrlich

sciences@rivier.edu

Last date page was modified: April 26, 2007