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Description of CoursesCSE342 Operating Systems (3,1,4)The objective of this course is to introduce theorganization of operating systems. Topics included areprocess management and scheduling, interaction ofconcurrent processes, interrupts, I/O, device handling,memory and virtual memory management and filemanagement. A survey is carried out of the design andimplementation of distributed operating systems, bothby introducing basic concepts and consideringexamples of current systems: UNIX and recentlydeveloped operating systems such as Linux, Vista arepresented.Prerequisites: CSE246, CSE310CSE344 Compiler Design (3,1,4)This course examines the design consideration,constraints and implementation techniques fordeveloping compilers and interpreters. Programminglanguage code translation issues are explored withreference to problem domains, resource requirementsand runtime requirements. Topics include CompilerBackend Operations like Scanning, Parsing (top-downand bottom-up parsing), BNF/EBNF and Syntax Trees,Semantic Analysis and Annotated Grammars, andCompiler Frontend Operations like RuntimeEnvironments, Code Generation and Introduction toCode Optimization.Prerequisites: CSE310, CSE309CSE345 Computer Architecture & Assembly Language(3,0,3)This course is an introduction to computer systemstructure and organization. Topics includerepresentation of information, processor architecture,input/output, CPU, ALU, memory hierarchy, arithmeticcircuits, micro and macro instructions, arithmeticshifts, overflow and underflow situations, fixed pointand floating point data, instruction codes, super scalarstructures, VLIW, and other modern CPU architectures.Prerequisites: CSE141,CSE208CSE346 Numerical Analysis (3,1,4)This is a junior standard elective course of numericalanalysis. Basic paradigms and concepts of -numericallycomputing what cannot be analytically estimated- areintroduced. The beginning deals with numericaltechniques of finding roots of non-linear univariateequations, and system of non-linear equations withNewton's method. This is followed by system of linearequations and iterative as well as direct solutionmethods. Interpolation and averaging based on 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional grids are treated next.This gives way to numerical calculus, which -in turnisfollowed by time integration methods aimed at solvinglinear ordinary differential equations. Some introductionto numerical techniques for partial differentialequations ends the course. Successful students shouldbe capable of appreciating, understanding, andconstructing numerical methods for solvingmathematical models that belong in the solutiondomain of numerical techniques taught in this course.CSE4XX Numeric Computation (3,0,3)This senior level elective course of numerical analysisis more focused towards computational techniquesfor scientific problems, rather than theoretical analysisof numerical methods. Students are required to bewell-versed with numerical methods, such as the onestaught in the junior course of numerical analysis. Thiscourse starts with partial differential equation of thelinear type and introduces grid discretization concepts.Finite Difference and finite volume techniques on cellcentered and vertex centered regular grids are taught.Numeric computation involving iterative solutions ofdiscretized PDEs, such as multigrid are taught here.Multigrid components, and multigrid preconditionedKrylov subspace methods are also covered. Successfulstudents are expected to be capable of solving actualPDE models numerically.CSE406 Principles of Programming LanguagesThis course develops understanding of programminglanguage design and implementation issues withrespect to computational models their domains andease of use. It covers topics like data types, declarations,static and dynamic binding, evaluation order, scopesand lifetimes, evaluation order and interpretation andcompilation as well as just in time compilation. Acomparison of fundamental characteristics ofstructured, scripting, logical and functional languagesis also drawn.Prerequisite: CSE142CSE407 Human Computer InteractionThis course aims to gives students an understandingof how the study of Human Computer Interaction (HCI)affects the design of interactive systems, hardwareand software and improves students' awareness of theissues that determine the usability of an interactivecomputer system. Humans are the key deciding factorto make a computer system successful. This coursediscusses the key issues and their solutions to makea system more human friendly. Effective design isreliant upon understanding the human context in whicha new artefact has to fit. This course provides thenecessary knowledge and skills to design, prototypeand evaluate usable human-computer interaction inboth its narrow sense (the user interface) and its broadsense (information systems, people, organizations,even societies and cultures). It further provides astrategic grounding in both theory and good practicefor students to make effective use of applying HCIprinciples to IS design in their professional work.CSE443 Modeling & Simulation (3,1,4)This course looks at simulation, which is one of themost widely adopted techniques in problem solving. Itincludes an overview of system modeling andsimulation, manual example on simulation of discreteevent individual life and health insurance, regulation,and insurer operations and functions.167