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310. Topics in Operating Systems. Not open to students who have taken Computer Science 332. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
320. Advanced Topics in Digital Systems. 3 units. C-L: Electrical and Computer Engineering 352
322. Advanced VLSI Design. Theory of advanced VLSI design. Specifications development, methodology, issues,
circuit-level trade-offs. Full custom design, standard cell design, gate array design, silicon compilation. Semiconductor
technologies and logic families for semi-custom design. Clocking schemes and distribution, race conditions. Design of
a variety of circuits (adders, I/O drivers, RAM, FIFO, etc.) Testing of all phases in the life cycle of an integrated circuit.
Top-down design and bottom-up implementation. Student projects. Not open to students who have taken Computer
Science 310 before Fall 1994. Prerequisite: Electrical Engineering 261 or equivalent. Instructor: Kedem. 3 units. C-L:
Electrical and Computer Engineering 361
327. Seminar in Computer Systems Analysis. Topics in computer systems analysis, especially for fault-tolerant systems,
including reliability, availability and performance analysis, comparative analysis of architectures, performability,
analytic and numerical solution techniques, stochastic Petri nets, simulation. Not open to students who have taken
Computer Science 381. 1 to 3 units. Instructor: Trivedi. Variable credit.
331. Operating Systems Theory. Advanced study of theoretical aspects of operating systems emphasizing models and
control of concurrent processes, processor scheduling, and memory management. Prerequisite: Computer Science 226
and 231. Instructor: Ellis or Wagner. 3 units.
340. Theory of Computation. Not open to students who have taken Computer Science 325. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
350. Topics in Numerical Mathematics. Advanced topics in numerical mathematics to be selected from areas of current
research. Not open to students who have taken Computer Science 321. Prerequisite: Computer Science 250 and 252.
Instructor: Greenside, Rose, or Sun. 3 units.
355. Principles of Research Management. A survey of topics in modern research management techniques that will cover
proven successful principles and their application in 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.
Cultural Anthropology
Professor Starn, Chair; Professor Ewing, Director of Graduate Studies; Professors Allison, Ewing, Ho, O’Barr,
Silverblatt, Starn; Associate Professors Baker, Litzinger, Meintjes, Nelson, Piot; Assistant Professors Davis, Makhulu,
McIntosh, Stein, Subramania; Professors Emeriti Apte, Friedl, Quinn; Lecturer Kirk; Secondary Appointments:
Professor Andrews (Slavic languages), Butters (English), Mignolo (romance studies), Reddy (history); Associate
Professor Tetel (English); Assistant Professors Holsey (African and African American studies), Wilson (women’s
studies)
The department offers graduate work leading to the PhD degree in cultural anthropology. It also participates in a
program with the Law School leading to a joint JD/MA degree. Students are expected to take an active role in
development of their own research goals and plan of study, compiling a portfolio of papers and other writing over the
first three years. Requirements include courses in anthropological theory, cross disciplinary course work and spoken
and/or written competence in at least one foreign language, at the level appropriate to the planned research program.
The core courses include two year-long sequences: Theories in Cultural Anthropology (330S, 331S), required of firstyear
graduate students, and research/grant writing seminars (332S, 333S), required in the fifth and sixth semesters.
Preliminary field research is required in the summer following the second year of classes. The Guidelines for
Graduate Students in the Doctoral Program in Cultural Anthropology and the Guidelines for Graduate Students in the
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