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the areas of research lab organization, resource management, organization of technical
projects, team leadership, financial accountability, and professional ethics. Instructor: Staff.
1 unit.
364. Advanced Topics in Nonlinear and Complex Systems. 3 units. C-L: see Physics 313
370. Seminar in Artificial Intelligence. Topics in artificial intelligence, such as natural
language understanding, learning, theorem proving and problem solving, search methodologies.
Topics will vary from semester to semester. Includes research literature reading with
student presentation. Not open to students who have taken Computer Science 382.
Instructor: Staff. Variable credit.
376. Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence. Course content will vary from year to year
and will include a detailed study of one or more of the following: mechanical theorem
proving, natural language processing, automatic program synthesis, machine learning and
inference, representations of knowledge, languages for artificial intelligence research,
artificial sensorimotor systems, and others. Not open to students who have taken Computer
Science 315. Prerequisite: Computer Science 270. Instructor: Biermann or Loveland. 3
units.
391. Internship. Student gains practical computer science experience by taking a job in
industry, and writes a report about this experience. Requires prior consent from the student's
advisor and from the director of graduate studies. May be repeated with consent of the
advisor and the director of graduate studies. Credit/no credit grading only. Instructor: Staff.
1 unit.
395. Research. Instruction in methods used in the investigation of original problems.
Individual work and conferences. 1 to 6 units. Instructor: All members of the graduate staff.
Variable credit.
399. Special Readings. Instructor: Staff. Variable credit.
COURSES CURRENTLY UNSCHEDULED
206. Programming Languages
222. Introduction to VLSI Systems
223. Application Specific VLSI Design
232. Mathematical Analysis of Algorithms
236. Parallel Algorithms
242. Logic for Computer Science
248. Philosophy of Computing
252. Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
254. Numerical Linear Algebra
256. Functional Analysis for Scientific Computing
266. Communication, Computation, and Memory in Biological Systems
291. Reading and Research in Systems
292. Reading and Research in Algorithms and Complexity
293. Reading and Research in Scientific Computing
294. Reading and Research in Artificial Intelligence
Cultural Anthropology (CULANTH)
Professor Allison, Chair; Professor Starn, Director of Graduate Studies; Professors Andrews
(Slavic languages), Butters (English), Mignolo (Romance studies), O’Barr, and Reddy
(history); Associate Professors Baker, Ewing, Litzinger, Meintjes (music), Nelson, Piot,
Silverblatt, Starn, and Tetel (English); Assistant Professors Jackson, Stein, and Thomas;
Professors Emeriti Apte, Friedl, and Quinn
The department offers graduate work leading to the Ph.D. degree in cultural
anthropology. It also participates in a program with the law school leading to a joint J.D./
M.A. degree. Students are expected to take an active role in development of their own
research goals and design of their own plan of study, as well as in the pursuit of relevant
Cultural Anthropology (CULANTH) 105