COMP 426: Automated Reasoning
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Course Information -- Fall 2005

Lectures MWF 9:35-10:25, Burnside Hall 1B23
Brigitte Pientka (bpientka@cs.mcgill.ca)
TA Xi (David) Li (Teaching Assistant)
xli53@cs.mcgill.ca
Office Hours MWF 10:35-11:05, McC. Room 107N, Brigitte Pientka
Tue 16:00-17:00, Trottier Room 3105, Xi Li (Teaching Assistant)
Thu 16:00-17:00, Trottier Room 3105, Xi Li (Teaching Assistant)
Textbook Automated Theorem Proving
Frank Pfenning.
Course notes
Copies will be available here for students.
Credit 3 units
Grading 30% Homework, 20% Midterm, 50% Final
Homework There will be 5 homeworks which include theoretical and implementation exercises.
You have 2 late days you can use throughout the semester
Late homework will be accepted only under exceptional circumstances.
Midterm Fr, 28th Oct.
Closed book, one sheet of notes permitted.
Final To be announced
Academic integrity McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offenses under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see http://www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information). Most importantly, work submitted for this course must represent your own efforts. Copying assignments or tests from any source, completely or partially, or allowing others to copy your work, will not be tolerated.
Topics Natural Deduction, Sequent Calculus, Proof terms, Type checking,
Theorem proving, Unification, Redundancy elimination techniques,
Functional and Logic Programming, Open problems and applications

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