CS 237: Probability in Computing - Fall 2007

The Teaching Assistant this semester is Sarah Zatko.

She can be reached at sarahlz@cs.bu.edu, telephone:358-1121, office: PSY 225.

Her office hours are Tuesday and Wednesday 2:30-4:00.

Here is the most recent CS 237 Course News.

Homework assignments, and some answers to old homework, can be found here:

current homework ,

Homework 6 , Homework 5 , Homework 4 , Homework 3 , Homework 2 , homework 1 .

The midterm is here, with brief answers included for each problem.

CS 237 serves as the core undergraduate course in probability, probabilistic algorithms and applications of the probabilistic method. In CS 237 students will learn fundamental probabilistic algorithm design and and the ideas underlying this subject. The following list of pointers provides access to information concerning the course, the students and the instructors.

• Course Information
  • Syllabus
  • Homework
  • A short bibliography of related texts
• Computer Science Department Information
  • CS Department Home Page
  • Other Departmental Resources
• Help and Other Places in Cyberspace (courtesy of A. Kfoury)
  • Steve Seiden's Cheat Sheet(ten pages of commonly used formulas in computer science).