John Rushby

PhD Thesis, Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, September 1977.

I'd like to find a way to get this online. It's 400 pages and typewritten, with formulas drawn in by hand with a mapping pen! The gocr OCR program delivered the following interpretation of the first few lines of the abstract

 A_STRACT

A method of syntactic _alygts ta developed whtch
tg beltevea to B_pasg all known competttors in _ll major
reepectg_
Tbe method ta based upon that ageoctatn_d with the
_RCb_ Br_ara but ig f_ter becauBe it bypasseg all
reductton BtepB concerned with lchatnl producttong_ These
_e freely aelected productíons which are congtdered
Bem_ttCally trreleV_t _d whose rieht p_tB consiat of

In the meantime, here's a scan of the opening pages, with the Abstract and Table of Contents. PDF

And here's a couple of random pages of technical material. PDF

BibTeX Entry

@phdthesis{Rushby77,
	AUTHOR = {John Rushby},
	SCHOOL = {Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne},
	TITLE = {{LR}(k) Sparse-Parsers and their Optimisation},
	YEAR = 1977,
	MONTH = sep
}