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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.

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.

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).

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.

Prerequisites: CS 226. Foundations of networking technology and understanding of challenges faced in design and architecture of Data networks. Topics include networking principles, Transmission, Control Protocol, Internet Protocol, data encoding/decoding techniques and wireless communication.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.