Sep 4, 2009, noon
Sep 8, 2009, 10am

Dear all,
 The designated textbook for the course is 
  Cormen et al, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill   [From now on CLRS2e]
 There seems to be available a             [From now on CLRS3e]
  Cormen et al, 3rt edition, apparently published by MIT-Press
and several of you might have ordered the latter rather than
the former or planning to do so.


I have already sent an inquiry to a McGraw-Hill rep, to clarify the case
about the two editions and differences etc re contents. As of today
(Tue Sep 8, 10am) I have not received any response.

I did my own lookup and here are some observations. I emphasize these
are observations rather than concrete evidence of what is stated below.

 - The structure of the chapters seems to have remained intact. Thus Chapter 7
is QuickSort in both editions. The only change is in Chapter  27 (that has been
renamed and content changed from Sorting Networks) and/or Chapter 19 not covered in the course.
 - The page structure has changed. Thus what used to be on page 30, might now
appear on page 35 or 55 or so.
 - Material has been added to Chapter 4 (Strassen method) in CLRS3e. This will be covered in
   the course out of chapter order

Thus, even though [CRLS2e] IS THE DESIGNATED TEXTBOOK, there does not seem much harm
done if one uses [CRLS3e]. Section titles seem to have remained the same.
 
More Information will be posted as soon as it becomes available.