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CS 428 Artificial Intelligence

Prerequisite: Junior standing and CS 219 or permission of the instructor. History, fundamental principles, and future directions of A.I. Topics include state-space searching, knowledge representation, logic and deduction, natural language processing, neural networks, learning, vision, robotics, and cognitive science. Topics will be treated at a level of depth and detail appropriate for a first course in AI.

Credits

3.0

Cross Listed Courses

Double-numbered course; offered with graduate-level CS 528

Offered

Fall Semester

CS 443 Machine Learning

Prerequisites: Junior standing and CS 428 or permission of the instructor Introduction to the field of modeling learning with computers. Topics included are explorations of inductive learning, learning decision trees, ensemble learning, computational learning theory, and statistical learning methods.

Credits

3.0

Cross Listed Courses

Double-numbered course; offered with graduate-level CS 543

Offered

Spring Semester (Even Years)

CS 445 Robotics & Intelligence Systems

Prerequisites: Junior standing and CS 428 or permission of the instructor Comprehensive examination of the theory and practice behind robot-building and the deployment of intelligent systems. Topics are divided between robot architectures (control paradigms, kinematics, sensors, actuators and navigation) and cognitive robotics (learning, decision-making, coordination and cooperation).

Credits

3.0

Cross Listed Courses

Double-numbered course; offered with graduate-level CS 545

Offered

Spring Semester (Odd Years)

CS 450 Digital Logic and Switching Theory

Prerequisite: CS 226 or permission of the instructor. Introduction to combinational and sequential circuit design. Topics include Boolean algebra and simplification techniques, arithmetic circuits, decoders, flip-flops, counters, registers, memory systems, analog-to-digital conversion and VHDL programming.

Credits

3.0

Cross Listed Courses

Double-numbered course; offered with graduate-level CS 550

Offered

Spring Semester (Even Years)

CS 451 Digital Signal Processing

Prerequisite: CS 219 or Permission of Instructor. Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is concerned with the representation, transformation and manipulation of signals using computer technology. This course will introduce the basic concepts and techniques for processing discrete-time signals.

Credits

3.0

Cross Listed Courses

Double-numbered course; offered with graduate-level CS 551

Offered

Spring Semester (Odd Years)

CS 453 Data Communication & Network Security

Prerequisites: CS 202 and CS 226 or permission of the instructor. Foundations of networking technology and security. Signaling, signal propagation, data and bit encoding, packetization, wiring, physical and logical topologies, network architectures, protocols and layered models, network security will focus on the origin, axis and impacts of network related threats and their detection, correction and prevention.

Credits

3.0

Cross Listed Courses

Double-numbered course; offered with graduate-level CS 553

Offered

Fall Semester

CS 461 Computer Architecture

Prerequisites: CS 226 and CS 219 or permission of the instructor. An in-depth study of architectural concepts and principles including performance-based design tradeoffs. Topics to be covered include: instruction set design, arithmetic algorithms, hardwired and microprogrammed control, memory hierarchy design, input/output, pipelines, RISC, CISC, vector processors, parallel processors and superscalar machines.

Credits

3.0

Cross Listed Courses

Double-numbered course; offered with graduate-level CS 561

Offered

Fall Semester (Odd Years)

CS 464 Operating Systems

Prerequisites: CS 226 and CS 219 or permission of the instructor. Fundamental principles of operating systems. Topics include: process management; concurrency; deadlock; CPU scheduling; memory management; disk management; files systems; security; and distributed, real-time and multiprocessor operating systems.

Credits

3.0

Cross Listed Courses

Double-numbered course; offered with graduate-level CS 564

Offered

Spring Semester

CS 466 Parallel Computing

Prerequisites: Junior standing and CS 219 or permission of the instructor. A comprehensive introduction to both the principles and the practice of parallel computing. Topics to be covered include: programming and architectural models, parallel algorithms and parallelizing compilers.

Credits

3.0

Cross Listed Courses

Double-numbered course; offered with graduate-level CS 566

Offered

As Needed

CS 471 Programming Languages: Their Design and Compilation

Prerequisites: CS 226 and CS 219. A survey of the major programming paradigms and their related languages, including procedural, functional, logic and object-oriented programming. Topics include: binding, exception handling, data sharing, scope, parameter passing, type checking, runtime storage management, lexical analysis, syntactic analysis, parsing, code generation and optimization.

Credits

3.0

Cross Listed Courses

Double-numbered course; offered with graduate-level CS 571

Offered

Fall Semester

CS 474 Capstone Proseminar

Prerequisites: CS 329 and senior standing, or permission of the instructor. Course focuses on cultivating proficiency in technical communication, using appropriate research methods, enhancing the ability to identify computational problems, properly state research questions, critically assess scientific literature, present data and results, work in teams and improve technical writing and time management skills.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Fall Semester

CS 475 Senior Project

Prerequisites: CS 324, CS 474 and senior standing, or permission of the instructor Students majoring in computer science complete a capstone project, serving as a culmination of their studies. The project entails the development of a significant piece of software or carrying out a research study by a student team, supervised by a designated faculty member within the department and evaluated by a faculty committee.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Spring Semester

CS 498 Special Topics

Credits

3.0

Offered

As Needed

CS 499 Departmental Honors

Prerequisite: By invitation of the department. The departmental honors paper is a two-semester senior-year program designed for students who wish to pursue intensive research or special projects in close coordination with faculty advisers. Departmental honors students are known as the Christine P. Tischer Scholars and receive 6 credits for this work.

Credits

6.0

Offered

Year Long