Computer Science

• CAS CS 548: Advanced Cryptography
  Continuation of CAS CS 538. Advanced techniques to preserve confidentiality and authenticity against active attacks, zero-knowledge proofs; Fiat-Shamir signature schemes; non-malleable public-key encryption; authenticated symmetric encryption; secure multiparty protocols for tasks ranging from Byzantine agreement to mental poker to threshold cryptography.
• CAS CS 549: Pattern Matching and Detection with Applications is Biological Sequence Analysis
  Examines algorithmic techniques for pattern matching and detection with applications geared to biological sequence analysis. Readings from original journal articles and textbooks. Algorithm correctness, time and space complexity, and sensitivity/specificity trade-offs are discussed.
• CAS CS 551: Par Lang & Arch
  
• CAS CS 552: Introduction to Operating Systems
  Examines process synchronization; I/O techniques, buffering, file systems; processor scheduling; memory management; virtual memory; job scheduling, resource allocation; system modeling; and performance measurement and evaluation.
• CAS CS 553: Operating Systems II
  Advanced course focusing on technical papers and case studies of modern operating systems. Rigorous study of OS structure, design, and implementation for real-world systems. Abstractions, mechanisms and policies for future system design, including address-space protection, scheduling, synchronization, and fast interprocess communication.
• CAS CS 556: Advanced Computer Networks
  Strengthens understanding of networking issues and solutions. Relates fundamental concepts, requirements, and design tradeoffs to scheduling, congestion control, routing, traffic management, wireless access and mobility, and applications. Considers how networking may evolve to provide ubiquitous support for quality-of-service in heterogeneous environments.
• CAS CS 558: Computer Networks Security
  Theory and practice of computer network security. Cryptographic tools: shared and public key cryptography, encryption, key exchange, and signature. Applying these tools in protocols and systems: confidentiality, authentication, data integrity (Kerberos; SSL/TLS, ISPEC; VPNs; certificates, PK). Firewalls, intrusions, viruses.
• CAS CS 559: Algorithmic Aspects of Computer Networks
  Studies the role of algorithms in large-scale networked applications such as Internet content delivery, peer-to-peer file sharing, and network monitoring. Topics include randomized summarization, information coding, and distributed hash tables.
• CAS CS 562: Advanced Database Applications
  Research issues in the design and implementation of modern database systems. Spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal index structures. Indexing methods for image and multimedia databases and data warehouses. New data analysis techniques for large databases, clustering and rule discovery for very large datasets.
• CAS CS 565: Data Mining
  Introduction to data mining concepts and techniques. Topics include association and correlation discovery, classification and clustering of large datasets, outlier detection. Emphasis on the algorithmic aspects as well as the application of mining in real-world problems.
• CAS CS 580: Advanced Computer Graphics
  Survey of advanced modeling, rendering, and animation algorithms. Emphasis on implementation and underlying theory for simulating various phenomena. Topics include photorealistic image synthesis, modeling natural objects and phenomena, character animation, virtual reality, and advanced computer-human interface techniques.
• CAS CS 585: Image and Video Computing
  Introduction to images and video as multimedia data types and algorithms for image and video understanding based on color, shading, stereo, and motion. Topics include face recognition, human-computer interfaces, animal and vehicle tracking, and medical image analysis.
• CAS CS 591: Topics in Computer Science
  Various issues in computer science.

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