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CSCI 6510 Compiler Construction
3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 4510 or consent of department. Emphasis will be
placed on the implementation of programming languages. Review
of lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis. Topics will include code
generation, optimization, run-time structures and support, attribute
grammars, table-driven code generators, and data flow analysis.
CSCI 6520 Visual Programming Languages
3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 4101 or CSCI 4103 or CSCI 4501 or CSCI 4510 or
consent of the department. An introduction to the theory, design
and application of visual programming languages. Topics include:
basic theory of such languages; overview of existing visual languages
and their tools; visual grammars; design of graphical language
elements; generalized spreadsheet language; applications and
examples.
CSCI 6601 Adv Artificial Intelligence
3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 4525. The area of artificial intelligence is one of
the most diverse in the computing field. This course will go indepth
into one or more core AI sub-areas, as chosen by the instructor.
Example sub-areas of study are machine learning, planning,
natural language processing, automated deduction, etc.
CSCI 6602 Expert Systems
3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 4525 or consent of department. A study of the
techniques, tools, and applications of expert systems. Topics include
the architecture of expert systems, knowledge representation,
drawing inferences, expert system tools, developing small and large
knowledge systems, difficulties with expert system development,
and the expert systems market. This course will also involve the
design and implementation of a small expert system using a commercially
available expert system shell.
CSCI 6610 Automated Deduction
3 cr.
Prerequisite: Computer Science 2125, or consent of department.
The course has two distinct parts. The first is mathematical logic,
including Zero-Order Logic, First-Order Logic, semantic approaches
and interpretations, and syntactic approaches and deductive apparati.
The second part concentrates on the algorithms for performing
logic, and covers resolution refutation proofs in Zero-and First-
Order Logics.
CSCI 6615 Wireless Network Security
3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 4311 or consent of department. Security problems
for wireless networks, especially ad hoc wireless networks and
wireless sensor networks. Attacks on resource-constrained wireless
networks deployed in open and/or hostile environments. Techniques
to prevent such attacks.
CSCI 6621 Network Security
3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 4621 and CSCI 4623 or consent of department.
A graduate course in advanced network security and computer
forensics, emphasizing the development and application of tools
and techniques for securing computer networks and preservation
and recovery of digital evidence in networked environments. Topics
include: basic issues in network security, network intrusion
detection, honeypots and honeynets, and network forensics analysis.
The course will include a substantial lab component.
CSCI 6631 Advanced Computer Graphics
3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 4631. Commonly-used data structures for graphics
displays and raster scan graphics algorithms for line and circle
drawing; polygon filling; antialiasing; curve fitting; surface fitting;
two- and three-dimensional clipping, including clipping to arbitrary
convex volumes; hidden-line and hidden-surface removal,
including ray tracing; rendering, including local and global illumination
models, texture shadows, transparency, and color effects.
CSCI 6633 Computer Vision
3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 4632. This course provides an overview of fundamental
techniques for representing and recognizing visual patterns
in two or three dimensions. Topics covered include segmentation
and morphology, pattern recognition and classification, color- and
text-based measures, motion analysis and optical flow, three-dimensional
models from stereo imaging, knowledge-based systems
and scene understanding.
CSCI 6634 Data Visualization
3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 4631 or consent of department. An introduction
to standard techniques for displaying, exploring, and understanding
non-visual data from medical, scientific, engineering, financial,
or other domains. Topics covered will include visualization models,
data representation, color-mapping and contouring, volume rendering,
data transformations, modeling, image processing techniques,
animation and user interaction.
CSCI 6635 Pattern Recognition
3 cr.
Prerequisites: CSCI 4525 and MATH 2511 or consent of the instructor.
A study of the concepts behind pattern recognition and classification
with applications in the analysis of various types of data.
Topics include: design of a pattern recognition system, Bayesian
decision theory, Maximum-likelihood estimation, nonparametric
techniques, linear discriminant analysis, multilayer neural networks,
non-metric techniques, stochastic methods, unsupervised
learning and clustering (including hierarchical and online clustering,
component analysis, low dimensional representations).
CSCI 6640 Computational Geometry
3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 4101 or consent of department. Using the fields
of pattern recognition, computer graphics, image processing, and
algorithm design for source material, this course will concentrate
on algorithms and techniques for geometric computations. Topics
include: computation of convex hulls, decomposition of polygons,
polygon approximation, planar visibility, and other current topics
of research. Students will be required to design and analyze a
number of algorithms.
CSCI 6650 Intelligent Agents
3 cr.
Prerequisite: CSCI 4525 or consent of the department. An investigation
of computational systems in which several intelligent agents
or agents and humans, interact. Includes architectures for building
intelligent agents, design and implementation of multi-agent
systems, inter-agent communication languages and protocols,
problem-solving, planning, learning and adaptation techniques in
multi-agent systems.
CSCI 6990 Topics in Adv Comp Sci
3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of department. This is an advanced graduatelevel
course whose topics change from semester to semester. The
prerequisites change as dictated by the topic. This course may be
repeated once for credit.
CSCI 7000 Thesis Research
1-9 cr.
To be repeated for credit until thesis is accepted. Section number
will correspond with credit to be earned.
CSCI 7040 Examination or Thesis Only
0 cr.
Open to students in a thesis program who have only (other than
application for degree) the final typing and acceptance by the
Graduate School of their thesis or dissertation or to students in
a non-thesis program who have only (other than application for
degree) to pass the final examination to complete graduation
requirements.
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