Juggernaut

rejected freshly :-)

just got rejected by UBC MSc-CS (saw it on the status page) something doesn't seem right...all these days they were playing the "a decision has not yet been made...we will contact u when we have a decision" had called them up yest politely asking em if they could expedite my app review coz i had to respond to other offers... and lo today a reject! :tup::tup:[clap][clap]:D:grad:

Cornell is an awesome school man! With a fellowship i would say it is a gr8 offer. But then, what should matter more to you is your advisor and the research in your area of interest, so you should be the better judge!

by UW do you mean Wisconsin@Madison or Univ of Waterloo?

most junta have 5-6 I-20s by the end of their applicatin season. It would be a serious issue ONLY IF YOU HAVE BEEN OFFERED FINANCIAL AID BY ONE OR MORE OF YOUR UNIVERSITIES WHICH HAVE ACCEPTED YOU. In which case most north american schools and those in Canada are part of the "Council of Graduate schools", so they share the funding information awarded to their students with all other schools. If you accept a funded offer from one univ, then you cannot accept any other offer from any other school until you submit in writing to the school you accepted first seeking their permission to withdraw your application to them, and are granted the same. So don't hurry if you are not sure, the deadline for accepting funded offers is April-15th.

University of Maryland College Park University of Southern California University of California - San Diego Northwestern University University of California - Santa Barbara these are really gr8 univs....@poster above i hope by "you should apply to better univs" u meant a replacement for some of the last 5-6 univs in his list like UCF, Wichita, IIT-C etc

i too got that mail :) ... congrats to ya both!

same here..i got that letter in late dec for PhD-CS...no news on aid yet....the grad sec said that these r made in march.....bt i am not pretty positive abt funding frm NCSU

but for 1,2,3 the rest are easily 80:20 accept/reject chances for you...you should apply for more schools and apply for higher schools. all da best.

Congrats dude! Thats a gr8 admit....OSU PhD-CS should come with funding...they don't take in lot many ppl to not fund them. Funding decisions are usually made later...after the admits have first been decided....so all the best for the funding... [clap]

oh thanks sami...in that case my answers wud obviously be incorrect.

isn't (b+c)* like a series of b's or a series oc c's? like "bbbbbbbb" or "ccccccccc" can we have anything like "bcbcbc" in this ?

no i think not...coz ORDER DOES NOT MATTER. so u should not consider each 'a' as distinct..they are all identical...only the permutations get counted. c * should supercede (b or c)* should that should supercede a* so u really cannot have those 2^N possibilities as their relative positions are restricted. I cud be wrong....would like to know if anyone else has another approach.

(I) is cubic i think strings are of the form aa....(b or c)* ab c* now ab has to be present in all strings....so given at string of length N, we have only N-2 places to be filled by the other three elements i.e either a* , (b or c)* , c* this could be done in (N-2-2) a's, b, c or (N-2-2) a's ,c,c --- 2 ways (N-2-3)a's,bb,c or (N-2-3) a's,b,cc or (N-2-3) a's,c,cc -- 3 ways (N-2-4) ... --------------- 4 ways and so on. This is of the order of (N-2)*{(N-2)*(N-2+1)/2} ---> Cubic. (II) is linear. it allows only string of the form abc* which is a linear growth.

I think answer choice wud be C, using registers a lot wud mean that memory access time will be shortened a lot, so pipelining wud be ineffective.