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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dear EECS undergrads,</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">If you're looking for fall 2018 courses, consider taking
<b>CS 4201: Software Verification</b> (counts as a <b>tech. elective!</b>). We'll do a bunch of cool things in the course centered on using the proof assistant Coq (</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><a href="https://coq.inria.fr/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk841890">https://coq.inria.fr/</a>)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> to
prove the correctness of software systems. To give you a taste, here's the website from last year's offering: <a href="http://ace.cs.ohio.edu/~gstewart/courses/4201-17/" id="LPlnk878475">http://ace.cs.ohio.edu/~gstewart/courses/4201-17/</a>. </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Lecture:
<b>MWF 11:50am-12:45pm in ARC 221</b></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">And here are some anonymous student testimonials from previous times I've taught the course:</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">"I really liked the entire course. This course was excellently put together. The professor was able to give great introduction to new concepts, answer questions, and link the lecture
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"Dr. Stewart has been very helpful and available even outside of his office hours to help with assignments, and other questions associated with the course.</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">"The material was very interesting to me - so much so that I plan to work through the software foundation book over winter break for fun. The instructor is pleasant to work with,
I look forward to working with him on projects related to the class.</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">"The instructor is amazing. He broke down a difficult subject and made it accessible to students like me who struggle with higher level material.</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">"I find the coursework very unique and that it helps bridge the gap between Mathematics and Computer Science.</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">"It was very entertaining to learn how to deal with machine proofs-and satisfying once you convinced the machine that you were correct.</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">"Professor Stewart is an excellent teacher who explains things well and very clearly. He has a great ability to simplify otherwise VERY complicated material.</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Note that CS4201 *WILL* count as a tech. elective (even if it's not yet officially listed in the relevant documents online).</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks!</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">- Gordon</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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