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==== Informal Introduction to Finite Automata ====

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Video Lectures

Week 1

Course Outline and Motivation

One of the highest ranked courses at Standford for "most used" after 5 years of employement.

Used in regex and modeling electronics. We will cover context-free grammars.

Some problems are undecidable or intractable and automata can help identify them and help avoid sinking time into them.

We will look at

  • Regular languages
  • Context-free languages
  • Recursively enumerable languages

Informal Introduction to Finite Automata