CS181 Fall 95 Old Announcements

Last modified: October 31, 1995 3 am (Wk 5 Tuesday)

Lecture: 5440 Boelter Hall MW12-1:50pm
Section: 167 Dodd F12-12:50pm (Ends at 12:50pm)

Instructor: Professor Sheila Greibach - greibach@cs.ucla.edu
Office Hours: MW 2-3 or by appointment

Teaching Assistant: Mitchell Tsai - tsai@ucla.edu
Office Hours: M11-12, T3:30-4:30 or by appointment

I just started creating web pages on October 3, 1995, so if you see anything funky on this page, please send mail to tsai@ucla.edu; i.e. if these pages appear too small on your computer. Please send relevant details - for example...which web program you use, where you are using your program (SeasNet, home, etc...), color or black & white screen, screen size, etc...

Sorry about the quick job on this web page; I just finished jury duty. The format will be changing rapidly.

The ucla.classes.cs.cs181 newsgroup is designed for
(1) announcements from the TA and professor
(2) student discussions (Please no postings of entire solutions! :-)
(3) student questions, which might be of general interest

Old Announcements

10/24/95 (Wk 4 Tue) Transition tables should represent a machine exactly - no more, no less.

In an NFSA, a machine may block; this shows up as a blank entry in the transition table.

In a DFSA, blocking is not allowed; all entries in the table must be filled.
All "dead" and "live" states must appear as rows in the transition table.
10/23/95 (Wk 4 Mon) hw2 has been graded. The graded hw1 and hw2 are above my mailbox. All files on this site have images now.
10/20/95 (Wk 3 Sat) hw3, sol2, pp3, ps3, s95-hw3, s95-sol3 are now on the web, but the images (gifs) are not available yet.
10/18/95 (Wk 3 Wed) Homework #3 is available above my mailbox. It is not yet available on the web.
10/16/95 (Wk 3 Mon) Homework #2 Common Questions
- Problem 1 Can you use NFSAs and DFSAs? Yes.
- Problem 1a The string of length 4i can be both 0's and 1's.
  Acceptable strings are 00, 011110, 010110, 100101
10/13/95 (Wk 2 Fri) Homework Solutions #1 (sol1) is not yet available on the website.
Paper copies above my mailbox in 3559.
10/12/95 (Wk 2 Thu) CS 181 Lecture will meet in 5440 BH starting Monday .
10/12/95 (Wk 2 Thu) Sorry about the Homework 2 delay. Paper copies are available above my mailbox.
10/11/95 (Wk 2 Wed) : Homework 1 due at 4 pm in CS181 mailbox (3559 Boelter)
Not in class or the professor's mailbox!
Our reader picks up the assignments directly from the mailbox, so assignments handed in elsewhere may be marked late.
10/9/95 (Wk 2 Mon) Extra copies of the homeworks and practice problems are available above the CS181 mailbox in 3559.
10/9/95 (Wk 2 Mon) HW1 #3c typo - Initial state is "1", not "A" (Credit to Cathy).
10/8/95 (Wk 2 Sun) Note: If you have old CS181 materials, please make sure you have the corrected versions. I will be posting revised versions as I finish them.
The CS181 Spring 1995 ftp site - has files in various states of revision. Check out the Spring 1995 README.
The Spring 1995 corrections file contains a list of most known errors in the Spring 1995 homeworks and practice problemss.
10/8/95 (Wk 2 Sun) : I created images for all files, so you can view them on the web. Also, the postscript files are SeasNet-viewable , so you can use ghostview on SeasNet. If you have ghostview or a commercial postscript viewer at home, please try it out and tell me if it works.
10/8/95 (Wk 2 Sun) : Please read the Homework Grading Standards.
10/6/95 (Wk 1 Fri) : Practice Problems 1 handed out.
10/6/95 (Wk 1 Fri) : Fall 1995 Homeworks and practice problems and Spring 1995 Homeworks subpages created.
10/6/95 (Wk 1 Fri) : Shorter Address : tsai@ucla.edu
10/6/95 (Wk 1 Fri) : Easiest ways to access this page
(1) Save a book mark, now that you've found it.
Shortest bookmark is http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd-grads-gs4/tsai/cs181.html
(2a) On SeasNet type in http://www/class.html , open CS181.
(2b) On CSNet type in http://www.seas/class.html, open CS181.
10/4/95 (Wk 1 Wed) : Homework 1 ( hw1.ps 29k, hw1.ps.zip 11k) handed out in class.
10/4/95 (Wk 1 Wed) : Lecture to be given by TA
10/2/95 (Wk 1 Mon) : New room for Friday sections - Dodd 167
Our last room could only hold 24 people!
9/29/95 (Wk 0 Fri) : For the first six weeks, sections will only last 1 hour. I have a conflict with another 1-3pm meeting.

How to reach Mitchell Tsai

E-mail: tsai@ucla.edu