Courses

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston- Charles River Campus
Description: For students with no prior experience with computers. Organization and function of computer systems; application of computers in today’s society; social impact of computers. Introduction to algorithms, various types of application packages, and the Internet. 4 credits.
Restrictions: Not for CS Majors
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Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Online
Program: MS CIS Prerequisite, MS TC Prerequisite
Description: This course is a technically-oriented introductory survey of information technology. Students learn about basic computer information, different types of business systems and basic systems analysis, design and development. Students also study basic mathematics, software development and create simple Java programs. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston – Charles River Campus
Program: BS CS, MS CS prerequisite, MS CIS prerequisite
Description: Introduction to problem-solving methods and algorithm development. Includes procedural and data abstractions, program design, debugging, testing, and documentation. Covers data types, control structures, functions, parameter passing, library functions, and arrays. Laboratory exercises in C++. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 201 A1 – Spring 2012

Prerequisites: MET CS 201 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston – Charles River Campus
Program: BS CS, MS CS prerequisite, MS CIS prerequisite
Description: Covers the elements of object-oriented programming and the C++ language. Data types, control structures, functions, library functions, classes, inheritance, and multiple inheritance. Use of constructors, destructors, function and operator overloading, reference parameters and default values, friend functions, input and output streams, templates, and exceptions. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 231 C1 – Spring 2012

Prerequisites: MET CS 201 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston – Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: BS CS, MS CS prerequisite
Description: This course covers the elements of object-oriented programming and the Java Programming Language. Primitive data types, control structures, methods, classes, arrays and strings, inheritance and polymorphism, interfaces, creating user interfaces, applets, exceptions and streams. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS232 – Summer 2 2012 (Boston)

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus- Chelmsford
Program: BS CS, MS CS prerequisite
Description: Fundamentals of logic (the laws of logic, rules of inferences, quantifiers, proofs of theorems), Fundamental principles of counting (permutations, combinations), set theory, relations and functions, graphs, trees and sorting, shortest path and minimal spanning trees algorithms. Monoids and Groups. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 231 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: BS CS, MS CS prerequisite
Description: Covers data structures, using the C++ language. Topics include data abstraction, encapsulation, the use of recursion, creation and manipulation of various data structures; bags, lists, queues, tables, trees, heaps and graphs, and searching and sorting algorithms.  4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 341 C1 – Spring 2012

Prerequisites: MET CS 232 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus -Chelmsford
Program: BS CS, MS CS prerequisite
Description: This course covers data structures using the Java Programming Language. Topics include data abstraction, encapsulation, information hiding, and the use of recursion, creation and manipulation of various data structures: lists, queues, tables, trees, heaps, and graphs, and searching and sorting algorithms.  4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 201 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: BS CS
Description: Computer-based management information systems. Management’s role in development and use of computer systems. Planning for a comprehensive information system; role in decision making, case studies. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: MET CS 231 or MET CS 232 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: BS CS
Description: This course focuses on building core competencies in web design and development. It begins with a complete immersion into HTML essentially XHTML and Dynamic HTML (DHTML). Students are exposed to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), as well as Dynamic CSS. The fundamentals of JavaScript language including object-oriented JavaScript is covered comprehensively. AJAX with XML and JSON are covered, as they are the primary means to transfer data from client and server. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 201 and either MET CS 231 or MET CS 232 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: BS CS
Description: Basic concepts of data communications and computer networks; hardware, software, and reference models; TCP/IP protocol suite. Overview of voice communication, LAN, network development life cycle, security, management IT Economic: Total Cost Ownership, Return on investment and IT Project Portfolio Management. 4 credits.
Restrictions: This course may not be taken in conjunction with CS 535 or CS 625. Only one of these courses can be counted towards degree requirements.

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: BS CS elective
Description: This courses provides comprehensive overview of IT Project Management and the key processes associated with planning, organizing and controlling of software Projects. The course will focus on various knowledge areas such as: project scope management, risk management, quality management, communications management and integration management. Students will be required to submit a term paper.

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: BS CS
Description: Database concepts, relational and entity-relationship (ER) data models, normalization, object-relational modeling, database life cycle, the Structured Query Language (SQL). Preview of advanced database concepts, including transaction management, performance tuning, distributed databases, and data warehousing. Meets with CS 669, with undergraduate-level exercises, quizzes, and final and an optional term project. 4 credits.
Restrictions: This course may not be taken in conjunction with CS 669 or CS 579. Only one of these courses can be counted towards degree requirements.

Prerequisites: MET CS 231 or MET CS 232 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: BS CS, MS CS prerequisite
Description: Computer organization with emphasis on processors, memory, and input/output. Includes pipelining, ALUs, caches, virtual memory, parallelism, measuring performance, and basic operating systems concepts. Discussion of assembly language instruction sets and programming as well as internal representation of instructions. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: Consent of advisor.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: BS CS
Description: Independent study on special projects under faculty guidance. 4 credits or variable.

 Prerequisites: MET CS 341 or MET CS 342 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: In-depth exploration of the C++ programming language and Visual Studio .NET for development, debugging, and deployment of applications.  4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 503 D1 – Spring 2012

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston- Charles River Campus
Program: MS CIS elective, MS CS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This course empowers students to reduce the energy use, waste, and other environmental impacts of IT systems while reducing life cycle costs, thereby improving competitive advantage. Students learn how to measure computer power usage, minimize power usage, procure sustainable hardware, design green data centers, recycle computer equipment, configure computers to minimize power, use virtualization to reduce the number of servers, and other green technologies. Students also learn how to make green IT an integral part of organizational culture and planning, to foster long-term sustainable information technology. The course is executed through a combination of lectures, guest lectures, field trips, assignments, labs, case studies, and a term project. 4 credits.Syllabus: CS 504 B1- Spring 2012

 Prerequisites: MET CS 201 Introduction to Programming (On Campus and Blended);
MET CS 200 Fundamentals of Information Technology (Online Only)
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CIS core
Description: This course covers the concepts of the object-oriented approach to software design and development using the Java programming language. It includes a detailed discussion of programming concepts starting with the fundamentals of data types, control structures methods, classes, applets, arrays and strings, and proceeding to advanced topics such as inheritance and polymorphism, interfaces, creating user interfaces, exceptions and streams. Upon completion of this course the students will be able to apply software engineering criteria to design and implement Java applications that are secure, robust, and scalable. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS520 OL – Summer 2 2012

 Prerequisites: MET CS 248 and MET CS 341 or MET CS 342 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: This course is primarily the study of design of graphic algorithms. At the end of the course you can expect to be able to write programs to model, transform and display 3-dimensional objects on a 2-dimensional display.  4 credits.

 Prerequisites: MET CS 201 or MET CS 231 or MET CS 232 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: BS CS, MS CS core, MS TC core
Description: Overview of data communication and computer networks, including network hardware and software, as well as reference models, example networks, data communication services and network standardization. The OSI and the Internet (TCP/IP) network models are discussed. The course covers each network layer in details, starting from the Physical layer to towards the Application layer, and includes an overview of network security topics. Other topics covered include encoding digital and analog signals, transmission media, protocols. circuit, packet, message, switching techniques, internetworking devices, topologies. LANs/WANs, Ethernet, IP, TCP, UDP, and Web applications. Labs on network analysis. 4 credits.
Restrictions: This course may not be taken in conjunction with CS 625 or CS 425 (undergraduate). Only one of these courses can be counted towards degree requirements.
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Prerequisites: Academic background that includes the material covered in a standard course on college algebra.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS core, MS TC core
Description: The goal of this course is to provide Computer Information Systems students with the mathematical fundamentals required for successful quantitative analysis of problems in the field of business computing. The first part of the course introduces the mathematical prerequisites for understanding probability and statistics. Topics include combinatorial mathematics, functions, and the fundamentals of differentiation and integration. The second part of the course concentrates on the study of elementary probability theory, discrete and continuous distributions. 4 credits.

 Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: This course presents financial algorithms used in applications of computer science in financial decision analysis, risk management, data mining and market analysis, and other modern business processes. The course covers theoretical background on probabilistic methods used for financial decision making and their application in number of fields such as financial modeling, venture capital decision making, operational risk measurement and investment science. Number of financial applications and algorithms are being presented for portfolio risk analysis, modeling real options, venture capital decision making, etc. The course concludes with algorithms for financial risk assessment and presents the security concepts and challenges of financial information systems. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: MET CS 342 or equivalent knowledge of Java or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: MS CIS elective, MS CS elective
Description: Comprehensive coverage of object-oriented programming with cooperating classes. Implementation of polymorphism with inheritance and interfaces and in Java library containers. Programming with exceptions, stream input/output and graphical AWT and Swing components. Threads, sockets, datagrams and database connectivity are also covered in this course.  4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 565 B1 – Spring 2012

Prerequisites: MET CS 248 and MET CS 341 or MET CS 342 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus – Chelmsford
Program: MS CS elective
Description: Discusses basic methods for designing and analyzing efficient algorithms emphasizing methods used in practice. Topics include sorting, searching, dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, advanced data structures, graph algorithms (shortest path, spanning trees, tree traversals), matrix operations, string matching, NP completeness. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston – Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CIS elective
Description: Provide students with a graduate introduction to the American healthcare system and the roles played by IT in that system. The course explores the structure and functions of healthcare information systems, medical terminology, human anatomy and physiology, disease processes, diagnostic modalities, and treatments associated with common disease processes. IT case studies trace the workflows and show how information systems are used in diagnosing and treating diseases. (4 credits)
Restrictions: Reserved for students in the MS CIS program with a concentration in Health Informatics.Syllabus: CS 570 D1 – Spring 2012

Prerequisites: MET CS 472 and MET CS 231 or MET CS 232 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus – Chelmsford
Program: BS CS, MS CS core, MS TC core
Description: Overview of operating system characteristics, design objectives, and structures. Topics include concurrent processes, coordination of asynchronous events, file systems, resource sharing, memory management, security, scheduling and deadlock problems. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 231 or MET CS 232 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus – Chelmsford
Program: BS CS, MS CS core
Description: This course provides a theoretical yet modern presentation of database topics ranging from Data and Object Modeling to advanced topics such as using C++/Java to develop Web-based database applications. Other topics covered – relational data model, SQL and manipulating relational data; applications programming for relational databases; physical characteristics of databases; achieving performance and reliability with database systems; object-oriented and distributed information systems. 4 credits.
Restrictions: This course may not be taken in conjunction with CS 669 or CS 469 (undergraduate). Only one of these courses can be counted towards degree requirements.
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Prerequisites: CS 570
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: This course presents the technological fundamentals and integrated clinical applications of modern Biomedical IT. The first part of the course covers the technological fundamentals and the scientific concepts behind modern medial technologies, such as digital radiography, CT, nuclear medicine, ultrasound imaging, etc. It also present various medical data and patient records, and focuses on various techniques for processing medical images. This part also covers medical computer networks and systems and data security and protection. The second part of the course focuses on actual medical applications that are used in health care and biomedical research. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are application systems that automate the activities of healthcare clinicians including physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and healthcare administrative staff. Use of EHRs is increasing rapidly due to the systems’ benefits and federal government programs to deploy EHRs. This increased use of EHRs has many challenges including complex data, high security requirements, integration to multiple application systems, a distributed user base, and broad impact on how these users work. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: Consent of advisor.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective
Description: Independent study on special projects under faculty guidance. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston- Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: In this course we will study the fundamental and design applications of various biometric systems based on fingerprints, voice, face, hand geometry, palm print, iris, retina, and other modalities. Multimodal biometric systems that use two or more of the above characteristics will be discussed. Biometric system performance and issues related to the security and privacy aspects of these systems will also be addressed. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 599 C1 – Spring 2012

Prerequisites: MET CS 231 or MET CS 232 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford, Online, Blended
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This course focuses on building core competencies in web design and development. It begins with a complete immersion into HTML essentially XHTML and Dynamic HTML (DHTML). Students are exposed to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), as well as Dynamic CSS. The fundamentals of JavaScript language including object-oriented JavaScript is covered comprehensively. AJAX with XML and JSON are covered, as they are the primary means to transfer data from client and server. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS601 – Summer 2012

On Campus Prerequisites: MET CS 201 and either MET CS 231 or MET CS 232 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CIS core
Description: This course presents the foundations of data communications and takes a bottom-up approach to computer networks. The course concludes with an overview of basic network security and management concepts. 4 credits.
Restrictions: MS CIS only. This course may not be taken in conjunction with CS 425 (undergraduate) or CS 535. Only one of these courses can be counted towards degree requirements.
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Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford, Online, Blended
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This course provides students with a comprehensive overview of the principles, processes, and practices of software project management. Students learn techniques for planning, organizing, scheduling, and controlling software projects. There is substantial focus on software cost estimation and software risk management. Students will obtain practical project management skills and competencies related to the definition of a software project, establishment of project communications, managing project changes and managing distributed software teams and projects. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS632 – Summer 2012

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston- Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford, Online
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This course prepares students to justify, lead, participate in, and maintain geographically distributed development (GDD) projects. Students study the technical and business implications of GDD. They also work in geographically dispersed teams to produce documented applications. No programming background is required. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 231 or MET CS 232 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS TC core
Description: Concepts and fundamental design principles of Computer Networks and Internet that have contributed to the modern networks implementation. Survey of new trends in networks and Internet/Intranet with design of real campus networks. Topics include discussion of fundamental aspects of Internet applications layer (HTTP, FTP, DNS), TCP, UDP socket programming, reliable data transfer, congestion control, network layer (Ipv4 and Ipv6) and routing, link layer and Local Area Networks (LAN), multimedia networking (RTSP, RTP, RSVP, DiffServ), and security in computer networks. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 232 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: This course provides a comprehensive introduction to building web applications and web services using the Microsoft .NET (Version 3.5) development platform. The key technologies covered include the C# programming language (Version 3.0), the ASP.NET (Version 3.5) system for developing web applications and web services using C#, and ADO.NET and LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) for data access. In addition to the above topics, we will also cover Windows Communication Framework (WCF) and Windows Presentation Framework (WPF). All programming will be based on Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 available through BU’s MSDNAA. A copy of the software will be provided to the students. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 566 or instructor’s consent
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: MS CS core
Description: Theory of finite automata and regular expressions and properties of regular sets. Context-free grammars, context-free languages, and pushdown automata. Turing machines, undecidability problems, and the Chomsky hierarchy. Introduction to computational complexity theory and the study of NP-complete problems. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: CS 248 and CS 341 or CS 342 or instructors consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: Study of the ideas and techniques that enable computers to behave intelligently. Search, constraint propagation and reasoning. Knowledge representation, natural language, learning, question answering, inference, visual perception, and/or problem solving.  4 credits.

Prerequisites: MET CS 341 or MET CS 342 and MET CS 565 or equivalent or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: Investigation of the object-oriented paradigm; creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns; component technology; implementation in java.  4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 342 or MET CS 565 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: The Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) architecture is explored starting with the   presentation layer which includes the servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP).   Java Server Faces (JSF) are briefly covered.  The business layer is examined using the enterprise java beans (EJB).  The persistence layer is studied through the Java Persistence API (JPA) and the  Hibernate framework. Jave based web services are explored using JAX-WS (SOAP based) and  JAX-RS (REST based) APIs. The Spring framework is compared as an alternative architecture. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS667 – Summer 2012

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CIS core
Description: Students learn the latest relational and object-relational tools and techniques for persistent data and object modeling and management. Students gain extensive hands-on experience using Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server as they learn the Structured Query Language (SQL) and design and implement databases. Students design and implement a database system as a term project. class. 4 credits.
Restrictions: Only for MS CIS. This course may not be taken in conjunction with CS 469 (undergraduate) or CS 579. Only one of these courses can be counted towards degree requirements.Syllabus: CS669 – Summer 2012

Prerequisites: MET CS 575 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective
Description: Teaches students how to develop complex applications based on the UNIX/POSIX standard. Topics include UNIX standardization and implementation, shell programming, system calls, library function, process control and relationships, signals, file and terminal input/output, and interprocess communication. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: MET CS 342 and at least one 500- level computer programming-intensive science science course or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: MS CS Core
Description: Techniques for the construction of reliable, efficient, and cost-effective software. Requirement analysis, software design, programming methodologies, testing procedures, software development tools, and management issues. Students plan, design, implement, and test a system in a group project. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 669 or MET CS 579 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford, Online
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: The course provides a strong foundation in database security and auditing. This course utilizes Oracle scenarios and step-by-step examples. The following topics are covered: security, profiles, password policies, privileges and roles, Virtual Private Databases, and auditing. The course also covers advanced topics such as SQL injection,database management security issues such as securing the DBMS, enforcing access controls, and related issues. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 674 OL – Spring 1 2012

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS TC elective
Description: Market structure, market rivalry, regulations, and public policy will be discussed. Merger/acquisition and strategic partnerships, as well as the business structure of the cable, wireless, and satellite industries. E-commerce and Web-related issues will be examined. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: Basic programming knowledge or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CIS core
Description: Object-oriented methods of information systems analysis and design for organizations with data-processing needs. System feasibility; requirements analysis; database utilization; Unified Modeling Language; software system architecture, design, and implementation, management; project control; and systems-level testing. 4 credits.
Restrictions: Only for MS CIS students
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Prerequisites: MET CS 342 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston- Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: MS CS elective
Description: Design and development principles for mobile device applications; in-depth coverage of the Android platform; mobile hardware; cell networks; mobile architectures, operating systems, languages, development environments and simulators, and user interfaces; location-based services; data storage and retrieval. Students write Android applications, simulate, and test them. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston- Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description:This course enables IT professional leaders to identify emerging security risks and implement security policies to support organizational goals. The course also discusses disaster recovery; handling information security; protection of property, personnel and facilities; protection of sensitive and classified information; privacy issues; and hostile activities. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 535 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC core
Description: This course covers computer networks management including configuration, fault, performance, as well as security management. Particular focus and emphasis is given to security management. Problem solving techniques and network management tools are discussed and practiced during extensive laboratory sessions. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 579 or MET CS 669 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: This course provides students with the technical skills required to plan, implement, and maintain a data warehouse using a DBMS such as Oracle Warehouse Builder. It describes basic data warehousing concepts. Key topics: Design a data warehousing system; implement a database designed with a star schema, gather data from primary data sources, transform data, and load data in to a DBMS. Students will create a cube using OLAP and analyze cube data using client applications. Upon successful completion, students will be familiar with the typical data warehouse components and architecture, and have an understanding of the practical uses of data warehousing. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 535 or MET CS 625; Familiarity with OSI and TCP/IP protocol stack; Background-familiarity with binary numbers, prime numbers, binary- hexadecimal-decimal conversions, etc; Familiarity with computer programming concepts or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus – Chelmsford
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC core
Description: This course will cover advanced network security issues and solutions. The main focus on the first part of the course will be on Security basics, i.e. security services, access controls, vulnerabilities, threats and risk, network architectures and attacks. In the second part of the course, particular focus and emphasis will be given to network security capabilities and mechanisms (Access Control on wire-line and wireless networks), IPsec, Firewalls, Deep Packet Inspection and Transport security. The final portion of the course will address Network Application security (Email, Ad-hoc, XML/SAML and Services Oriented Architecture security. As part of our course review we will explore a number of Network Use Cases. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 690

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: Provides a comprehensive understanding of digital forensics and investigation tools and techniques. Laboratory and hands-on assignments either in solo or in teams. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 693

Prerequisites: MET CS 625 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston- Charles River Campus, North Campus – Chelmsford, Online
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: The course provides an in-depth presentation of security issues in computer systems, networks, and applications. Formal security models are presented and illustrated on operating system security aspects, more specifically memory protection, access control and authentication, file system security, backup and recovery management, intrusion and virus protection mechanisms. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS695 – Summer 2012

MS CS Prerequisites: MET CS 579 or instructor’s consent.
MS CIS Prerequisites: MET CS 669 and MET CS 546 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: Data mining and investigation is a key goal behind any data warehouse effort. The course provides an introduction to concepts behind data mining, text mining, and web mining. Algorithms will be tested on data sets using the Weka Data mining software and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Business Intelligence Development Studio). 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 699 EL – Spring 2012

Prerequisites: MET CS 520 or (MET CS 601 and programming experience) or instructor’s consent
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, Online
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: The Rich Internet Application Development course concentrates primarily on building rich client web applications in the browser for desktop and mobile devices. The course is divided into various modules covering in depth the following technologies: Flex, ActionScript, HTML5, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, and Silverlight. Along with the fundamentals underlying these technologies, several applications will be showcased as case studies. Students work with these technologies starting with simple applications and then examining real world complex applications. At the end of this course, students would have mastered the latest  and widely used Web application development methodologies. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 701 D1 – Spring 2012

Prerequisites: MET CS 625 and MET CS 695 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston- Charles River Campus, Blended
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This course provides a comprehensive understanding of network forensic analysis principles. Within the context of forensics security, network infrastructures, topologies, and protocols are introduced. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 703

Prerequisites: MET CS 693 and MET CS 703 or instructor’s consent
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This course provides an introduction to the advanced digital forensic topic relating to malicious software (malware), which represents an increasing information security threat to computer systems and networks. This course will incorporate demonstrations and laboratory exercises to reinforce practical applications of course instruction and will require an independent research paper related to the course topic. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 565 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: Architecture of Web Services; review of XML Shemas; SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol); WSDL (Web Services Description Language); UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration); Web Services in .NET; Sun and Apache tools; Company-specific Web Service API’s; Java API’s for XML Messaging; Java Application Servers; review of Security, transactions, and business process languages (e.g. BPEL) among Web Services. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS751 – Summer 2012

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston – Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective
Description: Cloud computing leverages the World Wide Web to fulfill computing needs. It packages applications, computing power, and storage as a metered service similar to a utility. This model is designed to supplant the traditional mechanism of desktop computing in many cases. This course will cover the origin, theory, enabling technology, and hands-on labs for key concepts in cloud computing.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 566 or instructor’s consent. It is also recommended that students enroll in this class only after taking the core courses for MS in Computer Science.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective
Description: Theories and methods for automating the solution of problems with inexact specifications, input, models, or output (e.g., text checkers, help desks). Expert systems, fuzzy methods, neural net architectures, and genetic algorithms are examined and compared. Algorithms and a term project are implemented using shells and C++ or Java. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one object-oriented language (C++, or Java, or SmallTalk, or Object-Oriented Visual Basic); and MET CS 665, or MET CS 673; or instructor’s consent
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: The object-oriented paradigm is key to the predictable development of reliable software-intensive systems. Object-oriented methods consist of languages, distribution, analysis and design. Languages change and so does distribution (the manner in which processing is distributed). Basic to Object-Orientation, however, are Analysis and Design, which have remained remarkably stable. The course emphasizes ways to retain the goals of the object paradigm, the exploitation of use cases, the construction of sequence diagrams, the selection of classes, the relationships among them, and their utilization to implement systems. The course covers the relationship of GUI’s to classes, and relates OO Analysis and Design to refactoring.

Prerequisites: MET CS 673 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston- Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: Theory and practice of quality assurance and testing for each step of the software development cycle. Verification vs. validation. Test case design techniques, test coverage criteria, and tools for static and dynamic analysis. Standards. Test-driven development. QA for maintenance and legacy applications. Experimental approaches. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: MET CS 535 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston- Charles River Campus
Program: MS TC core, MS CIS elective
Description: In-depth coverage of the architecture, interfaces, protocols, and technologies of high-speed broadband networks. Students are required to complete a research project in one of the advanced Internet technologies. Labs on network performance analysis. 4 credits.

Prerequisites:CS 579 or CS 669 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective
Description: This course covers advanced aspects of database management systems including advanced normalization and denormalization, query optimization, object-oriented and object-relational databases, data warehousing, data mining, distributed databases, XML, XSL, and databases for web applications. There is extensive coverage of SQL and database instance tuning. Students learn about the advanced object-relational features in DBMS such as Oracle, including navigational query, BLOBs, abstract data types, and methods. 4 credits.
Syllabus: CS 779

Prerequisites: MET CS 579 or MET CS 669 or instructor’s consent
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This course prepares students to perform the day-to-day administration of a database system. While most of the examples in this course are based on Oracle database administration, the course also covers the differences in administering Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL and examples. The course covers administration on Windows, Linux and Unix platforms. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 570 Biomedical Sciences and Health IT
Delivery: Boston – Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CIS elective
Description: This course presents the details of information processing in hospitals, hospital information systems (HIS), and more broadly health information systems. It presents the architecture, design, and user requirements of information systems in health care environment. It focuses on Information Technology aspects of Health Informatics specifically addressing the design, development, operation, and management of HIS. The first part of this course covers the introductory concepts including information processing needs, and information management in health care environment. The second part covers detailed description of HIS including hospital process modeling, architecture, quality assessment, and applicable tools. The final part of the course covers management of HIS and related issues and extension of this topic to other health care organizations. The course will have a term project providing students a hands-on experience in design and research of HIS. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: None
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, Online, Blended
Program: MS CIS core
Description: This course provides an overview of contemporary I.T. management. It explains the relevant issues of effectively managing information services. The course highlights areas of greatest current and potential application of I.T. to business needs and reviews electronic business, enterprise business systems, and decision support systems. 4 credits.
Restrictions: Only for MS CIS students
Syllabus: CS782 – Summer 2012

Prerequisites: MET CS 682 or Strategic IT experience or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, Online
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This course builds upon the strong technical foundation of our MSCIS and MSCS curricula, by providing students with the CIO-level management perspective and skills of enterprise architecture, in the context of the technologies that implement those architectures. The course provides students with the understanding and skills needed to define and implement successful enterprise architectures that provide real value to organizations, such as substantially reducing IT costs while improving performance, agility and alignment of information technology to business goals. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: MET CS 248 and MET CS 566 or instructor’s consent
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus, North Campus-Chelmsford
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: The course covers the main concepts and principles of cryptography with the main emphasis put on public key cryptography. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: MET CS 789 or instructor’s consent
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This course builds on the material covered in CS 789 Cryptography. It begins with the coverage of commutative rings, finite fields, rings of polynomials, and finding of the greatest common divisor in the ring of polynomials. Irreducible polynomials are discussed. Field extensions and fields Fp[x]/P are thoroughly covered. The main emphasis is put on elliptic curves over Fp and F2 and the ElGamal cipher on elliptic curves is presented. 4 credits.
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Prerequisites: Consent of advisor. Requires prior approval of student-initiated proposal.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: Independent study on special projects under faculty guidance. Variable credits.

Prerequisites: Consent of advisor.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This thesis must be completed within 12 months. Students majoring in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or Telecommunication may elect a thesis option. This option is available to candidates that have completed at least seven courses toward their and have a GPA of 3.7 or higher. Students are responsible for finding a thesis advisor and a principal reader within the department. The advisor must be a full-time faculty member; the principal reader may be part-time faculty member with a doctorate. Permission must be obtained by the department. Variable credits.

Prerequisites: MET CS 673 or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This course teaches the architectural and operational implications of open source development and explores its relationship with agile methods. The course will also discuss aspect-oriented programming, the decomposition of applications into onshore and offshore components, design for security, and formal methods. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: MET CS 673 or equivalent or instructor’s consent.
Delivery: Boston-Charles River Campus
Program: MS CS elective, MS CIS elective, MS TC elective
Description: This course introduces students to the technological, social, and pragmatic aspects of developing open source software through direct involvement in an open source project. Projects in this course will use the Android software stack developed by Google and build mobile (cell phone) applications. 4 credits.