Showing posts with label Algorithmics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Algorithmics. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

The last lecture of John E. Hopcroft

Today is the last lecture of CS4850*. Lecturing to an empty classroom is nowhere near as satisfying as lecturing to 70 students in person. I know that listening to the lectures must also be nowhere near as valuable or interesting as going to a lecture, but it was the best we could do.

I was looking forward to this class as it was the last class I would teach in my career. I had hoped to get to know you all better but unfortunately, these circumstances interfered. I hope you have a successful time as you find what you really enjoy doing.

As soon as we grade the last homework we will post the grades.

Best,
John.

---

* Mathematical foundations for the information age

Location: Online
Lecture: MWF 1:25pm - 2:15pm
Instructor: John Hopcroft
Office Hours: By appointment
 
Lecture 11,  29 Apr.     Topic: Electrical Networks
 
===

John E. Hopcroft and his students at the 70th birthday conference, Oct. 2009:

Back row left to right: Alfred V. Aho, Richard J. Cole, Chandrajit Bajaj, John E. Hopcroft, Ravindran Kannan, Zvi Galil, Steven Fortune, Robert E. Tarjan, Gordon Wilfong. Allan Borodin.

Front row left to right: Laura Wang, Yookyung Jo, Daniela Rus, Kristen Summers, Sucheta Soundarajan, John Johnstone, Baining Guo, Gilles Brassard.


===
 
John E. Hopcroft [Edward]:
Idem, J. D. Ullman: `Introduction to Automata theory, Languages, and Computation', Addison-Wesley publishing company, Inc., 1979 (revision of `Formal languages and their relation to Automata', 1969).
A. V. Aho, Idem, J. D. Ullman: `The design and analysis of Computer Algorithms', Addison-Wesley publishing company, Inc., 1974.
A. V. Aho, Idem, J. D. Ullman: `Data structures and Algorithms', Addison-Wesley publishing company, Inc., 1983.
 
Idem, R. Kannan: `Foundations of Data science', Cambridge univ. press, Mar. 2020.
 
---
 
Photographs: N. Foster; Cornell Univ., Ithaca. 


Further keywords and labels: Hopcroft, J. E.; Asymptotic analysis of algorithms; Synthesis and analysis of algorithms; Algorithmics; Computation; Theory of computation; Automata; Languages; Concrete mathematics; Machine intelligence; Didactics and pedagogy; Mathematical exposition.