COMP 527: Logic and Computation
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Course Information -- Winter 2009

Lectures TuThu 11:35-12:55, Trottier 0070
Brigitte Pientka (bpientka@cs.mcgill.ca)
TA Gheorghe Comanici ( gheorghe.comanici@mail.mcgill.ca )
Kamal Al-Marhoobi ( kalmar at cs.mcgill.ca )
Office Hours Tue 1:00-3:00, McC. Room 107N, Brigitte Pientka
Fr 1:00-3:00, McC. Room 107, Gheorge Comanici
Mo 1:00-3:00, McC. Room 108, Kamal Al-Marhoobi
Textbook Constructive Logic
Frank Pfenning.
Course notes
Automated Theorem Proving
Frank Pfenning.
Course notes

We will make more specific handouts available on WebCT.
Credit 3 units
Grading 30% Homework, 25% Midterm I, 25% Midterm II, 20% Project
Homework There will be 6 small homeworks which include theoretical and practical exercises.
You have 2 late days you can use throughout the semester. You must however notify the instructor BEFORE the homework is due that you intend to use one or two late days.
If you have used up your late days, we will not accepted late homeworks.
Midterm Thu Feb 12, Midterm I
Closed book, one sheet of notes permitted.

Thu Mar 26, Midterm II
Closed book, one sheet of notes permitted.
Projects To be announced
3% project proposal, 6% Project milestone, 5% presentation, 6% final report
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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