Schedule - CS 337 -
Spring 2012
This schedule, and the links contained in it, are subject to change
during the semester.
| Date | Topic | Reading and Events Reading Assignments are from the required course pack by Professor Jayadev Misra unless otherwise noted. Read the assignments before class. |
| Jan 18 |
Syllabus and Course Introduction Notes: cs 337 intro |
1.Read the course syllabus carefully. 2. Project 0 will be posted later this week. |
| Jan 20 |
CS 337 pre-test | |
| Jan 23 |
Compression Notes: intro to information theory Proof techniques review |
1. Read 1.1-1.2. 2. Morse code translator 3. Braille code 4. Letter frequencies in English text 5. log rules |
| Jan 25 |
Compression | |
| Jan 24/26 |
pre-test |
1. Quizzes likely in discussion after today. |
| Jan 27 |
Compression Notes: Huffman coding and Dictionary methods |
1. Read 1.3-1.4 |
| Jan 30 |
Compression Error Detection/Correction Notes: LZ78 Implementation XOR applications |
1. Read 2.1-2.2. |
| Feb 1 |
Error detection | |
| Jan 30/Feb 2 |
Discussion: Q&A about project 1 Description of unit testing requirements for projects Quiz likely |
1. Complete and return your graded work return form in
discussion today. |
| Feb 3 |
Error Detection/Correction | 1. Read 2.2-2.4 2. More about Nim |
| Feb 6 |
Error Detection/Correction Notes: More with XOR: Nim+RAID |
1. Read 2.5-2.6. 2. Quiz likely |
| Feb 8 |
Error Detection/Correction | |
| Feb 7/9 |
Discussion: Q&A about project 1 |
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| Feb 10 |
Error Detection/Correction Notes: Parity Check & Hamming Code |
1. Read 2.7 |
| Feb 13 |
Hamming code and Reed-Muller code Cryptography Notes: Hamming & Reed-Muller Cryptography - Mathematical Preliminaries and Early Crypto |
1. Read 3.1-3.2. 2. Reed-Muller code used in Mariner 9 |
| Feb 15 |
Cryptography | 1. Dancing
Men
code |
| Feb 14/16 |
Discussion: Q&A on project 2 and
homework 3 Quiz over material covered in class last week. |
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| Feb 17 |
Cryptography Notes: Crypto: RSA |
1. Read 3.3.2 2. Common mistakes in induction proofs. |
| Feb 20 |
Cryptography Notes: Crypto: RSA, Fast Factorization, Block Ciphers |
1. Read 3.3. |
| Feb 22 |
Cryptography | 1. Schneier on caller
ID
spoofing |
| Feb 21/23 |
Discussion | 1. Work on midterm 1 review sheet, posted below, before
today's class. 2. Complete homework 4 and bring solutions with you. |
| Feb 24 |
Cryptography Notes: Crypto: Hellie-Diffman key exchange + digital signatures Practice problems for exam 1 |
1. Read 3.4 |
| Feb 27 |
Exam 1 Review Finite State Machines |
1. Exam 1 will be given on Wednesday, Feb 29, and will cover
material through 2/24. Exam 1: 2/29/12, 7:30-9 pm, WCH 1.120 2. Review problems for exam 1, and solutions 3. You may bring one 8.5"x11" sheet of paper with handwritten notes on ONE side to the exam. |
| Feb 29 |
Exam this evening Finite State Machines |
1. Dr. Misra's old
337
exams 2. Spring 2010 midterm 3. Spring 2011 midterm 4. Spring 2010 and Spring 2011 solutions |
| Feb 28/Mar 1 |
Discussion: No discussion this week |
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| Mar 2 |
No class today |
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| Mar 5 |
Finite State Machines |
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| Mar 7 |
Finite State Machines |
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| Mar 6/8 |
Discussion: exams returned |
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| Mar 9 |
Finite State Machines Notes: Finite Automata |
1. Read 4.1-4.2. |
| Mar 12-17 |
SPRING BREAK |
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| Mar 19 |
Finite State Machines Notes: FAs and transducers |
1. Read 4.3. |
| Mar 21 |
FAs | |
| Mar 20/22 |
Discussion | |
| Mar 23 |
Regular Languages Notes: NFAs & regular expressions |
1. Read 4.4. |
| Mar 26 |
Regular Expressions Notes: regular expressions & closure properties |
1. Finish reading chapter 4 |
| Mar 28 |
Regular expressions | |
| Mar 27/29 |
Discussion: Practice with regular expressions quiz likely |
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| Mar 30 |
Recursion and Induction Notes: Haskell Intro |
1. Read 5.1-5.2. 2. Some Haskell tutorials |
| Apr 2 |
Recursion and Induction Notes: Haskell functions, Type, Tuples and Lists |
1. Read 5.3-5.4. |
| Apr 4 |
Recursion and induction | |
| Apr 3/5 |
Discussion: Practice with DFA to regular expression
conversion, regular expressions, and Haskell functions |
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| Apr 6 |
Recursion and Induction Notes: Recursion and Lists |
1. Read 5.5-5.6. 2. Sample exam 2 3. Another sample exam 4. Spring 2010 and Spring 2011 exam solutions |
| Apr 9 |
Exam 2 Q&A |
1. Exam 2 review
sheet and solutions Finish reading chapter 5. |
| Apr 11 |
String Matching Notes: Rabin-Karp algorithm and KMP |
1. J
Moore's
page on KMP and the Boyer-Moore algorithms 2. Helpful explanation of KMP 3. Read sections 7.1-7.3. 4. Another description of KMP 5. Exam 2: April 11, 7:30-9 pm, WCH 1.120 |
| Apr 10/12 |
Discussion: Project Q&A Exam 2 Solutions |
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| Apr 13 |
String Matching |
1. Finish reading chapter 7. 2. Boyer-Moore algorithm |
| Apr 16 |
String Matching Notes: More on Boyer-Moore |
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| Apr 18 |
String Matching |
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| Apr 17/19 |
discussion: project Q&A quiz likely |
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| Apr 20 |
String Matching Relational Database |
1. KMP Example |
| Apr 23 |
Relational Database Notes: Relational Database Intro |
1. Friday, May 4, is our last class day. 2. Read sections 6.1-6.2. |
| Apr 25 |
Relational database | |
| Apr 24/26 |
Discussion: Another KMP Example Q&A for exam 3 TA Evaluations |
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| Apr 27 |
Relational database |
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| Apr 30 |
Relational Database Notes: Identities and Optimization Database Examples |
1. Finish reading chapter 6. 2. Sample exam 3 3. Sample exam solutions 4. Another sample exam |
| May 2 |
database examples |
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| May 1/3 |
Discussion |
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| May 4 |
Relational Database |
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| Exam 3: |
Date/Time TBD |
