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Computer Science (CSCI)

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D class assignments for undergraduates available in SAL300; Phone: (213) 740-4494.
D class assignments for undergraduates are available via email at: schrader@usc.edu or in SAL306; phone 740-4779. D class assignments for graduate students are available on line at: csdclear.usc.edu/dclear/. To be enrolled in an off-campus course, you MUST also be enrolled in the Distance Education Network (DEN). For more information, call 740-4488 or go to den.usc.edu. DEN courses are indicated by a location of OFF CAMPUS.

CSCI 101L: Fundamentals of Computer Programming (3.0 units)

Introduction to the design of solutions to computer solvable problems. Algorithm design, solution implementation using a high-level programming language, program correctness and verification.

Note: Register for one lecture and one lab

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
29900D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	22 of 30	Massoud Ghyam	ZHS252
29901D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	33 of 36	Massoud Ghyam	ZHS252
30399D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 30	Massoud Ghyam	KAP163
29902R	001	Lab	8:00-9:50am	Tuesday	0 of 25	Massoud Ghyam	SAL109
29903D	001	Lab	5:00-6:50pm	Tuesday	27 of 29		SAL127
29904R	001	Lab	10:00-11:50am	Thursday	6 of 25	Massoud Ghyam	SAL127
29905R	001	Lab	5:00-6:50pm	Wednesday	22 of 25		SAL126
29906D	001	Lab	8:00-9:50am	Thursday	Canceled
29907R	001	Lab	5:00-6:50pm	Thursday	17 of 25		SAL126
30374D	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Friday	Canceled
30004D	001	Lecture	3:30-5:50pm	Tue, Thu	26 of 33	Sheila Tejada	WPH207
30226D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	27 of 35	Sheila Tejada	SAL126
30397D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 30	Sheila Tejada	SAL126
30372R	001	Lab	1:00-3:50pm	Friday	71 of 95		MHP101
30008R	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Monday	Canceled

CSCI 102L: Data Structures (3.0 units)

Linear lists, strings, arrays, and orthogonal lists; graphs, trees, binary trees, multilinked structures, sorting techniques; dynamic storage allocation; applications.

Prerequisite: CSCI 101

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30010D	001	Lecture	TBA	TBA	Canceled		TBA
30349R	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	60 of 75	Mark Redekopp	ZHS252
30373R	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	49 of 75	Michael Crowley	ZHS352
30377R	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	55 of 75	Michael Crowley	WPHB27
29912D	001	Lab	5:00-6:50pm	Wednesday	12 of 28		SAL109
29914R	001	Lab	3:00-4:50pm	Wednesday	11 of 25		SAL126
29915R	001	Lab	12:00-1:50pm	Wednesday	17 of 25		SAL127
30009R	001	Lab	10:00-11:50am	Friday	7 of 25		SAL127
30200D	001	Lab	3:30-5:20pm	Tuesday	20 of 28		SAL126
30238D	001	Lab	5:30-7:20pm	Tuesday	21 of 28		SAL126
30294R	001	Lab	3:00-4:50pm	Tuesday	23 of 25		WPHB36
30379D	001	Lab	5:00-6:50pm	Thursday	26 of 31		SAL127
30394R	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Wednesday	18 of 25		SAL109
30396D	001	Lab	7:30-9:20pm	Wednesday	10 of 26		SAL109

Crosslist CSCI 110: Introduction to Digital Logic (3.0 units)

Boolean algebra; number systems; Boolean function synthesis; binary arithmetic; codes; combinational logic devices; sequential circuits; state machine design and implementation.

Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 101.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30406R	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	41 of 42	Satsuki Takahashi	OHE230
30410R	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Tue, Thu	39 of 42	Satsuki Takahashi	OHE230
30408R	001	Discussion	10:00-11:50am	Friday	38 of 40		VHE205
30411D	001	Discussion	2:00-3:50pm	Friday	43 of 35		VHE205
30855R	001	Discussion	4:00-5:50pm	Friday	8 of 25		VHE205
30400R	001	Quiz	4:00-6:00pm	Friday	105 of 180		TBA
30690R	001	Lecture	4:00-5:20pm	Tue, Thu	37 of 40	Satsuki Takahashi	OHE230
30651R	001	Discussion	12:00-1:50pm	Friday	28 of 40		VHE205

CSCI 200L: Object-Oriented Programming (3.0 units)

The principles of object-oriented programming are examined using Java. Topics include graphics, graphical user interfaces and multi-threaded programming. Duplicates credit in former CSCI 105.

Prerequisite: CSCI 102

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered
29919R	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	Canceled
30384R	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	Canceled
29920R	001	Lab	10:00-11:50am	Wednesday	Canceled
29921R	001	Lab	3:30-5:20pm	Tuesday	Canceled
29923R	001	Lab	5:00-6:50pm	Monday	Canceled
30375R	001	Lab	3:00-4:50pm	Monday	Canceled
30386R	001	Lab	3:00-4:50pm	Tuesday	Canceled

CSCI 201L: Principles of Software Development (3.0 units)

The object-oriented paradigm for programming-in-the-large (using the Java language); UNIX tools for software development.

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 200 or CSCI 105)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30381R	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	45 of 50	David Wilczynski	THH114
30393R	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	26 of 50	David Wilczynski	VKC152
29928R	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	48 of 50	David Wilczynski	THH116
29929R	001	Lab	10:00-11:50am	Wednesday	21 of 30	David Wilczynski	SAL126
29930R	001	Lab	5:00-6:50pm	Monday	29 of 30	David Wilczynski	SAL109
29931R	001	Lab	3:30-5:20pm	Tuesday	29 of 30	David Wilczynski	SAL109
30380R	001	Lab	8:00-9:50am	Monday	11 of 30	David Wilczynski	SAL127
30385R	001	Lab	4:00-5:50pm	Monday	29 of 34	David Wilczynski	WPHB36

CSCI 271: Discrete Methods in Computer Science (3.0 units)

Propositional and First-Order Logic; General Proof Techniques,Proofs by Induction; Applications to Program Verification; Counting/ Discrete Probability; Graphs, Trees, other discrete structures; Basic algorithms and complexity.

Prerequisite: (CSCI 102 and MATH 125)
Note: Register for lecture and one discussion

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
29934D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	94 of 102	David Kempe	WPHB27
29935R	001	Discussion	11:00-11:50am	Monday	50 of 52		VKC156
29936D	001	Discussion	11:00-11:50am	Friday	44 of 52		GFS116

Crosslist CSCI 280: Video Game Production (4.0 units)

History of video games; overview of game genres; phases of video game development (concept, preproduction, production, post-production); roles of artists, programmers, designers, and producers.

Crosslist: This course is offered by the ITP department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in ITP 280.
Note: Register for lecture and one lab

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
31869R	001	Lecture	6:00-8:50pm	Wednesday	56 of 80	Anthony Borquez	KAP160
31871R	001	Lab	11:00-12:50pm	Friday	19 of 20		OHE542
31872R	001	Lab	1:00-2:50pm	Friday	18 of 20		OHE542
31873R	001	Lab	3:00-4:50pm	Friday	18 of 20		OHE542

CSCI 281: Pipelines for Games and Interactives (3.0 units)

Explores the aesthetic development/technical implementation necessary to achieve unique, compelling, intuitive visual design in games. Students will develop group visual game design portfolios.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29982R	001	Lecture	3:00-5:50pm	Wednesday	19 of 25	Scott Easley	RTH321
29983R	001	Lecture	10:00-12:50pm	Thursday	24 of 25	Scott Easley	RTH321

CSCI 303: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (3.0 units)

Upper and lower bounds on sorting and order median. Deterministic and random computation, data structures, NP-completeness, cryptography, Turing machines and undecidability.

Prerequisite: (CSCI 102 and CSCI 271)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29939R	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	46 of 50	Leonard Adleman	SSL150
30176R	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	38 of 50	Aaron Cote	VKC102

CSCI 351: Programming and Multimedia on the World Wide Web (3.0 units)

HTML progrmming for creating home pages, installation and modification of Web server, writing progrms that offer enhanced services, manipulation of graphics, video and sound.

Prerequisite: CSCI 102

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30314R	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	Canceled	Massoud Ghyam

Crosslist CSCI 352L: Computer Organization and Architecture (3.0 units)

Computer organization and architecture. Concepts include: computer evolution and performance, system busses, cache memory, internal and external memory, input/output, operating system support, computer arithmetic.

Prerequisite: CSCI 102
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 352.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30677D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	29 of 45	Mark Redekopp	RTH109
30678D	001	Lab	1:00-1:50pm	Friday	29 of 45		RTH105

Crosslist CSCI 357: Basic Organization of Computer Systems (3.0 units)

Organization and operation of the processor, memory and I/O of a minicomputer at the machine language level; assembly language programming; data representation and computer arithmetic.

Prerequisite: (EE 101 and EE 201)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 357.
Note: Register for one lecture, and one discussion and quiz

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30528R	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	32 of 40	Mary Eshaghian	RTH105
30530R	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	41 of 41	Mary Eshaghian	RTH105
30532R	001	Discussion	11:00-11:50am	Friday	36 of 40		RTH105
30534R	001	Discussion	12:00-12:50pm	Friday	37 of 41		RTH105
30536R	001	Quiz	2:00-4:00pm	Friday	65 of 200		TBA

Crosslist CSCI 380: Video Game Programming (4.0 units)

Underlying concepts and principles required for programming video games (topics include vectors, transformations, 3-D math, geometric primitives, matrices).

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 102 or ITP 165)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the ITP department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in ITP 380.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
31908R	001	Lecture-Lab	5:00-6:50pm	Tue, Thu	35 of 36	Sanjay Madhav	OHE540	PDF (162047 KB)

CSCI 390: Special Problems (1.0-4.0 units)

Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.

Section	Session	Units	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29909D	001	2.0	Lecture	TBA	TBA	1 of 1	Michael Crowley	OFFICE

CSCI 402: Operating Systems (3.0 units)

Basic issues in concurrency, deadlock control, synchronization scheduling, memory management, protection and access control, inter-process communication, and structured design. Laboratory experiences with Unix-like operating system.

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 201 or CSCI 455) and 1 from (EE 357 or EE 352)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
29945D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	68 of 80	William Cheng	OHE122
29946D	014	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	3 of 20	William Cheng	OFF CAMPUS
30331D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	59 of 75	Theodore Faber Jr	ZHS352
30391D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	84 of 88	William Cheng	MHP106

Crosslist CSCI 450: Introduction to Computer Networks (3.0 units)

Network architectures; layered protocols, network service interface; local networks; long-haul networks; internal protocols; link protocols; addressing; routing; flow control; higher level protocols.

Restriction: Registration closed to the following class level(s): Freshmen, Sophomore
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 450.
Note: Register for one lecture and discussion

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
30560D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	61 of 50	Shahin Nazarian	OHE122	PDF (77241 KB)
30564D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	51 of 50	Shahin Nazarian	GFS118	PDF (77241 KB)
30568D	014	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	6 of 30	Shahin Nazarian	OFF CAMPUS	PDF (77241 KB)
30562R	001	Discussion	12:00-12:50pm	Friday	62 of 70		OHE132
30566R	001	Discussion	10:00-10:50am	Friday	14 of 1		GFS116
30570D	014	Discussion	12:00-12:50pm	Friday	6 of 30		OFF CAMPUS

Crosslist CSCI 452L: Game Hardware Architectures (3.0 units)

Architectural principles underlying modern game console hardware design; introduction to the programming techniques, optimization strategies, and hardware insights to create powerful games.

Prerequisite: EE 352
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 452.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30661D	001	Lecture	7:00-9:50pm	Monday	57 of 63	Jose Villeta	GFS118
30557D	001	Lab	TBA	TBA	57 of 63		OFFICE

Crosslist CSCI 454L: Introduction to System Design Using Microprocessors (4.0 units)

Operation and timing of 8/16/32-bit microprocessors; asynchronous and synchronous SRAM interface; burst and pipelined bus cycles, parallel and serial I/O, interrupt controller, DMA controller, bus protocols; hardware/simulation labs. Recommended preparation: EE 457

Prerequisite: (EE 357 and EE 201)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 454.
Note: Register for lecture and one lab

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30572R	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	29 of 37	Gandhi Puvvada	KAP140
30578R	001	Lab	5:00-8:00pm	Tuesday	17 of 19		VHE205
30580R	001	Lab	5:00-8:00pm	Wednesday	12 of 18		VHE205

CSCI 455x: Introduction to Programming Systems Design (4.0 units)

Intensive introduction to programming principles, discrete mathematics for computing, software design and software engineering concepts. Not available for credit to computer sciencemajors, graduate or undergraduate.

Note: Register for lecture and one lab

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
30327D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	42 of 48	Claire Bono	WPHB28	PDF (127612 KB)
30328R	001	Lab	12:00-1:50pm	Friday	21 of 24		SAL127
30329R	001	Lab	7:00-8:50pm	Thursday	21 of 24		SAL127

Crosslist CSCI 457: Computer Systems Organization (3.0 units)

Register Transfer level machine organization; performance; arithmetic; pipelined processors; exceptions, out-of-order and speculative execution, cache, virtual memory, multi-core multi-threaded processors, cache coherence.

Prerequisite: (EE 201 and EE 357)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 457.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30478R	001	Lecture	4:00-5:20pm	Mon, Wed	45 of 49	Gandhi Puvvada	ZHS163
30591R	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	76 of 81	Gandhi Puvvada	OHE122
30595D	014	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	1 of 20	Gandhi Puvvada	OFF CAMPUS
30497R	001	Discussion	3:30-4:20pm	Thursday	38 of 70		ZHS252
30593R	001	Discussion	12:00-12:50pm	Friday	81 of 110		OHE122
30594D	014	Discussion	12:00-12:50pm	Friday	1 of 20		OFF CAMPUS
30997R	001	Quiz	10:00-11:50am	Friday	90 of 150		TBA

CSCI 460: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (3.0 units)

Concepts and algorithms underlying the understanding and construction of intelligent systems. Agents, problem solving, search, representation, reasoning, planning, communication, perception, robotics, neural networks.

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 102 or CSCI 455)
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Junior, Senior

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30303R	001	Lecture	6:00-8:50pm	Monday	64 of 76	Krishnamurthy Narayanaswamy	ZHS352

CSCI 477b: Design and Construction of Large Software Systems (2.0 units)

Programming methodologies; intra-group and inter-group communication; software life-cycle; software economics. A large software project is a central aspect of the course.

Prerequisite: CSCI 477a

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29969R	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	58 of 60	Supannika Koolmanojwong	SSL150

CSCI 480: Computer Graphics (3.0 units)

Hardware for interactive graphic systems; picture representations; data structures for graphics; picture processing techniques; languages for graphics; survey of applications such as animation and simulation.

Prerequisite: CSCI 102

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29972D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	62 of 72	Jernej Barbic	SLH102	PDF (392112 KB)

CSCI 485: File and Database Management (3.0 units)

File input/output techniques, basic methods for file organization, file managers, principles of databases, conceptual data models, and query languages.

Prerequisite: CSCI 201

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30316R	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	39 of 42	Shahram Ghandeharizadeh	VHE217

Crosslist CSCI 487: Programming Game Engines (4.0 units)

Techniques for building the core components of a game engine; 2-D/3-D graphics, collision detection, artificial intelligence algorithms, shading, programming input devices.

Prerequisite: (CSCI 102 and ITP 380)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the ITP department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in ITP 485.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
31944R	001	Lecture-Lab	3:00-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 24	Sanjay Madhav	KAP107	PDF (159417 KB)

CSCI 490x: Directed Research (1.0-8.0 units, max 12)

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Junior, Senior

Section	Session	Units	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30228D	001	2.0-8.0	Lecture	TBA	TBA	14 of 50	Gaurav Sukhatme,Stephen Schrader	OFFICE

CSCI 491bL: Final Game Project (2.0 units)

b: Design, iterative stage 2 prototyping and development of a refined game.

Prerequisite: CSCI 491A

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30219D	001	Lecture-Lab	4:00-6:50pm	Thursday	46 of 46	Scott Easley	RTH321

CSCI 492: Immersive Game Development (2.0 units)

Design/develop 3D immersive games using advanced input devices, including sensors, video cameras, Wii-motes, accelerometer-inertial-magnetic sensor combinations, Microsoft Kinect systems, Sony Move etc. Recommended preparation: CTIN-488, CSCI-480, and significant participation in a prior game development effort.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30392R	001	Lecture	7:00-9:50pm	Tuesday	13 of 30	Mike Zyda	RTH321

Crosslist CSCI 495: Senior Project (2.0 units)

An original project will be constructed applying computer technology (in either hardware or software) to produce a result useful in the physics classroom or laboratory.

Crosslist: This course is offered by the PHYS department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in PHYS 495.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
50526D	001	Lecture-Lab	TBA	TBA	1 of 24	Clifford Johnson	OFFICE

CSCI 499: Special Topics (2.0-4.0 units)

Selected topics in computer science.

Section	Session	Units	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Security Systems
30005D	001	3.0	Lecture	2:00-4:50pm	Friday	9 of 25	Jelena Mirkovic	GFS108	PDF (113840 KB)
Free to Play Game Development
30007R	001	2.0	Lecture	7:00-8:50pm	Wednesday	15 of 25	Scott Easley,Chris Swain	RTH321	Word (25673 KB)

Crosslist CSCI 501: Numerical Analysis and Computation (3.0 units)

Linear equations and matrices, Gauss elimination, error estimates, iteration techniques; contractive mappings, Newton's method; matrix eigenvalue problems; least-squares approximation, Newton-Cotes and Gaussian quadratures; finite difference methods. Prerequisite: linear algebra and calculus.

Crosslist: This course is offered by the MATH department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in MATH 501.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
39694D	001	Lecture	10:00-10:50am	MWF	13 of 30	Wlodek Proskurowski	KAP166

Crosslist CSCI 502b: Numerical Analysis (3.0 units)

Computational linear algebra; solution of general nonlinear systems of equations; approximation theory using functional analysis; numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations.

Prerequisite: MATH 502A
Crosslist: This course is offered by the MATH department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in MATH 502b.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
39698R	001	Lecture	10:00-10:50am	MWF	5 of 20	Rongjie Lai	KAP138

CSCI 503: Parallel Programming (3.0 units)

Exploration of parallel programming paradigms, parallel computing architectures, hands-on parallel programming assignments, contemporary and historical examples and their impact, context with parallel algorithms. Recommended preparation: CSCI 102 or CSCI 455; EE 452 or EE 457.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30305D	048	Lecture	2:00-4:50pm	Monday	29 of 37	Bob Lucas	KAP140

Crosslist CSCI 505b: Applied Probability (3.0 units)

Markov processes in discrete or continuous time; renewal processes; martingales; brownian motion and diffusion theory; random walks, inventory models, population growth, queuing models, shot noise.

Prerequisite: MATH 505A
Crosslist: This course is offered by the MATH department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in MATH 505b.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
39708R	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	MWF	18 of 22	Jason Fulman	KAP134

CSCI 511: Personal Software Process (PSP) and Project (3.0 units)

Individual analysis, planning, development and maintenance of a software product or development artifact, using the principles and practices of PSP. Analysis of project's lessons learned.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30376D	048	Lecture	2:00-4:50pm	Tuesday	19 of 35	Supannika Koolmanojwong	KAP145	PDF (309125 KB)

CSCI 520: Computer Animation and Simulation (3.0 units)

Fundamental techniques of computer animation and simulation, knowledge and/or experience in the design, scripting, production and post-production stages of computer animation.

Prerequisite: CSCI 480

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30230D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	40 of 48	Jernej Barbic	SGM601	PDF (551374 KB)

Crosslist CSCI 521: Optimization: Theory and Algorithms (3.0 units)

Conditions for optimality; nonlinear programming algorithms for constrained and unconstrained problems. Special problems such as quadratic, separable, fractional, geometric programming.

Prerequisite: 1 from (MATH 225 or EE 441)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the ISE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in ISE 520.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
31520D	048	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 35	Suvrajeet Sen	KAP140	PDF (88310 KB)

CSCI 524: Networked Artificial Intelligence (3.0 units)

Networked game communication architectures, protocol development, architecting networked game AI clients/services. Character following, knowledge representation and reasoning, dynamic play strategies, search, learning, and planning. Recommended preparation: CSCI 480 or CSCI 580 or an equivalent course in graphics.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30011D	048	Lecture	10:00-12:40pm	Tuesday	20 of 25	Mike Zyda	RTH321

CSCI 526: Advanced Mobile Devices and Game Consoles (3.0 units)

Explore the complex engineering process required to design and build a real-time graphics engine to support physical realism on mobile devices. Recommended preparation: CSCI 480 or CSCI 580 or an equivalent course in graphics.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30012D	048	Lecture	10:00-12:50pm	Wednesday	50 of 60	Mike Zyda	RTH321

CSCI 529b: Advanced Game Projects (3.0 units)

This course provides students in various areas of game specialization the practice of design, iterative stage 2 prototyping and development of a refined game.

Prerequisite: CSCI 529A

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30220D	048	Lecture-Lab	4:00-6:50pm	Thursday	26 of 35	Mike Zyda	RTH321

CSCI 531: Applied Cryptography (3.0 units)

Intensive overview of cryptography for practitioners, historical perspective on early systems, number theoretic foundations of modern day cryptosystems and basic cryptanalysis.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30320D	048	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Mon, Wed	9 of 30	William Cheng	OHE120
30321D	034	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Mon, Wed	7 of 20	William Cheng	OFF CAMPUS

Crosslist CSCI 536: Linear Programming and Extensions (3.0 units)

Linear programming models for resource allocation; simplex and revised simplex methods; duality; sensitivity; transportation problems; selected extensions to large scale, multiobjective, and special structured models.

Prerequisite: 1 from (EE 441 or MATH 225)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the ISE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in ISE 536.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
31536D	048	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Mon, Wed	27 of 35	William Haskell	OHE132	PDF (109231 KB)
31736D	034	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Mon, Wed	5 of 10	William Haskell	OFF CAMPUS

CSCI 543: Software Multiagent Systems (3.0 units)

Investigate computational systems in which several software agents or software agents and humans interact.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30333D	048	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	Canceled	Milind Tambe

CSCI 544: Natural Language Processing (3.0 units)

Examination of the issues which enable computers to employ and understand natural language; knowledge representation, memory modeling, parsing, language analysis, story understanding, and generation. Recommended preparation: CSCI 562.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30027D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	39 of 43	Zornitsa Kozareva	VHE217

CSCI 545: Robotics (3.0 units)

Fundamental skills for modeling and controlling of dynamic systems for robotic applications and graphics animations; control theory; kinematics; dynamics; sensor processing; real-time operating systems; robot labs.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30323D	048	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	Canceled	Amin Atrash
30398D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	52 of 56	Amin Atrash	THH116

CSCI 548: Information Integration on the Web (3.0 units)

Foundations and techniques in information integration as it applies to the Web, including view integration, wrapper learning, record linkage, and streaming dataflow execution. Recommended preparation: CSCI 571, CSCI 573

Prerequisite: (CSCI 561 and CSCI 585)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30232D	048	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	20 of 49	Pedro Szekely,Jose-Luis Ambite	THH114	PDF (129221 KB)

CSCI 551: Computer Communications (3.0 units)

Protocol design for computer communication networks, network routing, transport protocols, internetworking.

Prerequisite: (CSCI 402 and EE 450)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30053D	048	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	53 of 70	Ramesh Govindan	THH208

Crosslist CSCI 552: Asynchronous VLSI Design (3.0 units)

Asynchronous channels and architectures; implementation design styles; controller synthesis; hazards, and races; Petri-nets; performance analysis, and optimization; globally asynchronous locally synchronous design. Open only to graduate students.

Prerequisite: EE 477
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Master Student, Doctoral Student
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 552.
Note: Register for lecture and discussion

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30702D	048	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	40 of 48	Peter Beerel	OHE100D
30703R	048	Discussion	12:00-12:50pm	Friday	26 of 45		OHE100D
30700D	034	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	1 of 20	Peter Beerel	OFF CAMPUS
30701D	034	Discussion	12:00-12:50pm	Friday	1 of 20		OFF CAMPUS

Crosslist CSCI 553: Computational Solution of Optimization Problems (3.0 units)

Computer algorithms for system optimization. Search techniques, gradient methods, parameter optimization in control systems. Optimization with constraints; linear and nonlinear programming. Random search techniques.

Prerequisite: EE 441
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 553.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
31245R	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 30	Michael Safonov	KAP167	PDF (81273 KB)

Crosslist CSCI 554: Real Time Computer Systems (3.0 units)

Structure of real-time computer systems; analog signals and devices; scheduling, synchronization of multiprocessors; reliability, availability; serial/parallel computations; real-time operating systems and languages; design examples.

Prerequisite: EE 457
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 554.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30704D	034	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 20	Monte Ung	OFF CAMPUS
30706D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	21 of 26	Monte Ung	OHE120
30955D	048	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	28 of 29	Monte Ung	MHP105
30708R	048	Quiz	8:00-9:50am	Friday	29 of 50	Monte Ung

Crosslist CSCI 557: Computer Systems Architecture (3.0 units)

Computer architecture from a design perspective: Pipelined processors, speculative execution, VLIW, vector processors, memory systems, interconnection networks, shared-memory and message-passing multiprocessors, chip multiprocessors.

Prerequisite: EE 457
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 557.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30455D	048	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	38 of 70	Michel Dubois	THH212
30456R	048	Discussion	5:00-5:50pm	Wednesday	42 of 50	Michel Dubois	KAP156
30820D	048	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	53 of 70	Michel Dubois	OHE136
30722R	048	Discussion	8:30-9:20am	Wednesday	40 of 45	Michel Dubois	OHE136
30823D	048	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	50 of 51	Mary Eshaghian	KAP146
30825R	048	Discussion	12:00-12:50pm	Friday	36 of 40	Mary Eshaghian	KAP140
30716D	034	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	3 of 20	Michel Dubois	OFF CAMPUS
30718D	034	Discussion	8:30-9:20am	Wednesday	3 of 20	Michel Dubois	OFF CAMPUS

Crosslist CSCI 559: Mathematical Pattern Recognition (3.0 units)

Distribution free classification, discriminant functions, training algorithms; statistical classification, parametric and nonparametric techniques, potential functions; non-supervised learning.

Prerequisite: EE 464
Corequisite: EE 441
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 559.
Note: Prerequisite taken at USC or placement exam required.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
30728D	034	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	7 of 30	Keith Jenkins	OFF CAMPUS	PDF (97749 KB)
30730R	048	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	43 of 60	Keith Jenkins	OHE122	PDF (97749 KB)
30885R	048	Discussion	3:30-4:20pm	Thursday	32 of 40		OHE100B
30886D	034	Discussion	3:30-4:20pm	Thursday	7 of 20		OFF CAMPUS

CSCI 561: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (3.0 units)

Foundations of symbolic intelligent systems, search, logic, knowledge representation, planning, learning. Recommended preparation: good programming and algorithm analysis skills

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30080D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	70 of 70	Paul Rosenbloom	SOSB46
30081D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	59 of 70	Laurent Itti	ZHS352
30387D	048	Lecture	3:30-6:20pm	Tuesday	78 of 80	Krishnamurthy Narayanaswamy	GFS116

CSCI 564: Brain Theory and Artificial Intelligence (3.0 units)

Introduce neural modelling, distributed artificial intelligence and robotics approaches to vision, motor control and memory.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30052D	034	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	3 of 20	Michael Arbib,Stephen Schrader	OFF CAMPUS
30079D	048	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	23 of 40	Michael Arbib,Stephen Schrader	OHE100C

CSCI 565: Compiler Design (4.0 units)

Formal grammars; parsing methods and lexical analysis; code generation; local and global code optimization; and dynamic allocation.

Prerequisite: CSCI 455

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30086D	034	Lecture	3:30-6:20pm	Wednesday	3 of 50	Pedro Diniz	OFF CAMPUS
30087D	048	Lecture	3:30-6:20pm	Wednesday	8 of 48	Pedro Diniz	RTH115

CSCI 568: Requirements Engineering (3.0 units)

Techniques for successful requirements analysis & requirements engineering (RE) of software-intensive systems. Systematic process of developing requirements through co-operative problem analysis, representation, and validation.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30332D	048	Lecture	2:00-4:50pm	Monday	18 of 20	George Edwards,Stephen Schrader	OHE100D
30334D	034	Lecture	2:00-4:50pm	Monday	4 of 20	George Edwards,Stephen Schrader	OFF CAMPUS

CSCI 570: Analysis of Algorithms (3.0 units)

Explores fundamental techniques such as recursion, Fourier transform ordering, dynamic programming for efficient algorithm construction. Examples include arithmetic, algebraic, graph, pattern matching, sorting, searching algorithms.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30097D	048	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 60	William Cheng	GFS101
30099D	034	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 22	Shahriar Shamsian	OFF CAMPUS
30100D	048	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	65 of 70	Aaron Cote	SOSB46
30101D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	62 of 70	Aaron Cote	ZHS252
30177D	048	Lecture	5:00-7:50pm	Monday	62 of 70	Shahriar Shamsian	THH208
30236D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	64 of 70	Shahriar Shamsian	OHE136
30395D	048	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	58 of 60	Aaron Cote	THH116

CSCI 571: Web Technologies (3.0 units)

Advanced study of programming languages with application to the Web. Languages for client-side and server-side processing. Examples taken from: HTML, Java, JavaScript, Perl, XML and others. Recommended preparation: knowledge of at least two programming languages

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30073D	034	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	10 of 22	Ellis Horowitz	OFF CAMPUS
30109D	048	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	47 of 40	Ellis Horowitz	OHE132
30322D	048	Lecture	7:00-8:20pm	Tue, Thu	72 of 70	Marco Papa	SLH100
30378D	048	Lecture	5:30-6:50pm	Tue, Thu	76 of 70	Marco Papa	SLH100

CSCI 572: Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines (3.0 units)

Examines key aspects of information retrieval as they apply to search engines; web crawling, indexing, querying and quality of results are studied.

Prerequisite: (CSCI 351 and CSCI 485)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30151D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	38 of 40	Christian Mattmann	WPH207
30302D	048	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	35 of 40	Ellis Horowitz	KAP140

CSCI 573: Probabilistic Reasoning (3.0 units)

Reasoning under uncertainty, statistical directed and undirected graphical models, temporal modeling, inference in graphical models, parameter learning, decisions under uncertainty. Recommended preparation: An undergraduate level course in probability theory.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30307D	048	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Mon, Wed	23 of 31	Ram Nevatia	OHE136	PDF (86401 KB)
30308D	034	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Mon, Wed	4 of 20	Ram Nevatia	OFF CAMPUS	PDF (86401 KB)

Crosslist CSCI 575: Wireless and Mobile Networks Design and Laboratory (3.0 units)

Mobile ad hoc networks: ad hoc and geographic routing, resource discovery, medium access control, IP-mobility, mobility modeling, wired-wireless networks. Lab: wireless LAN measurement, mobile-IP, ad hoc routing. Recommended preparation: programming, network simulation

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 551 or EE 550 or EE 555)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 579.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30852D	048	Lecture-Lab	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	21 of 28	Murali Annavaram	WPH101

CSCI 576: Multimedia Systems Design (3.0 units)

State-of-the-art technology for networked multimedia systems such as: system design, I/O technologies, data management, data compression, networking and telecommunications. Design of real-world multimedia solution. Recommended preparation: familiarity with C or C++

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30082D	034	Lecture	6:40-9:20pm	Monday	9 of 3	Parag Havaldar	OFF CAMPUS
30319D	048	Lecture	6:40-9:20pm	Monday	70 of 81	Parag Havaldar	OHE122

CSCI 577b: Software Engineering (4.0 units)

b: Software development, test, implemetation, and maintenance methods. CASE tools and software envirnments. Software product engineering, configuration management, quaility engineering, documentation. Application via projects.

Prerequisite: CSCI 577a
Restriction: Registration closed to the following class level(s): Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior, Senior

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30129D	034	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	MWF	8 of 35	Supannika Koolmanojwong	OFF CAMPUS
30130D	048	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	MWF	10 of 45	Supannika Koolmanojwong	OHE136

CSCI 578: Software Architectures (3.0 units)

Study of concepts, principles and scope of software system architectures, including architectural styles, languages, connectors, middleware, dynamism, analysis, testing and domain-specific approaches.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30136D	034	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Mon, Wed	11 of 22	Nenad Medvidovic	OFF CAMPUS
30137D	048	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Mon, Wed	42 of 50	Nenad Medvidovic	OHE100B

CSCI 580: 3-D Graphics and Rendering (3.0 units)

Course outlines the process of creating images from 3D models. Includes transformations, shading, lighting, rastorization, texturing, and other topics.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30390D	048	Lecture	7:00-9:50pm	Wednesday	70 of 82	Sathyanaraya Raghavachary	ZHS159

CSCI 585: Database Systems (3.0 units)

Database system architecture; conceptual database models; semantic, object-oriented, logic-based, and relational databases; user and program interfaces; database system implementation; integrity, security, concurrency and recovery.

Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Computer Science, Computer Science (Computer Networks), Computer Science (Computer Security), Computer Science (Game Development), Computer Science (High Performance Computing and,Simulation), Computer Science (Human Language Technology), Computer Science (Intelligent Robotics), Computer Science (Multimedia & Creative Technologies), Computer Science (Software Engineering)
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Master Student, Doctoral Student

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30017D	048	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	Canceled
30149D	034	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 15	Shahriar Shamsian	OFF CAMPUS
30150D	048	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	76 of 82	Shahriar Shamsian	OHE132
30221D	048	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	71 of 76	Shahriar Shamsian	ZHS352
30235D	048	Lecture	3:30-6:20pm	Wednesday	Canceled

CSCI 586: Database Systems Interoperability (3.0 units)

Federated and multi-database systems, database networking, conceptual and schematic diversity, information sharing and exchange, knowledge discovery, performance issues.

Prerequisite: CSCI 585

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30309D	048	Lecture	2:00-4:50pm	Thursday	23 of 25	Dennis McLeod	KAP166

CSCI 590: Directed Research (1.0-12.0 units)

Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30162D	048	Lecture	TBA	TBA	221 of 300	Gaurav Sukhatme,Stephen Schrader	OFFICE

CSCI 594a: Master's Thesis (2.0 units)

Credit on acceptance of thesis. Graded IP/CR/NC.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30168D	048	Lecture	TBA	TBA	1 of 25	Gaurav Sukhatme	OFFICE

CSCI 594b: Master's Thesis (2.0 units)

Credit on acceptance of thesis. Graded IP/CR/NC.

Prerequisite: CSCI 594A

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30169D	048	Lecture	TBA	TBA	1 of 25	Gaurav Sukhatme	OFFICE

CSCI 594z: Master's Thesis (0.0 units)

Credit on acceptance of thesis. Graded IP/CR/NC.

Prerequisite: CSCI 594B

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30170D	048	Lecture	TBA	TBA	0 of 25	Gaurav Sukhatme	OFFICE

CSCI 597: Seminar in Computer Science Research (1.0 units, max 2)

Introduction of Ph.D. students to the broad range of computer science research. Two semesters registration required. Open to Computer Science doctoral students only. Graded CR/NC.

Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Computer Science

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30175D	048	Lecture	12:00-12:50pm	Monday	56 of 60	Leana Golubchik	GFS116

Crosslist CSCI 598: Mathematical Foundations for Computer Aided Design of VLSI C (3.0 units)

Mathematical techniques employed in computer-aided-design systems, including: graph theory, algorighmic and heuristic techniques for combinatorial problems, data structures and modeling. Recommended preparation: CSCI 570, CSCI 455.

Corequisite: (EE 457 and EE 477)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 581.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30742R	048	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	10 of 40	Mel Breuer	OHE100C
31001D	034	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	0 of 20	Mel Breuer	OFF CAMPUS

CSCI 599: Special Topics (2.0-4.0 units, max 9)

Course content to be selected each semester from recent developments in computer science.

Section	Session	Units	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
NewSQL Database Management Systems
30000D	048	3.0	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	42 of 48	Shahram Ghandeharizadeh	MHPB7B	PDF (133651 KB)
Search and Search-Based Planning
30001D	048	3.0	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	Canceled	Sven Koenig		PDF (134181 KB)
Natural Language Dialogue Systems
30002D	048	3.0	Lecture	3:30-6:20pm	Wednesday	11 of 25	David Traum, David Devault	GFS213	PDF (169383 KB)
Security and Game Theory
30003D	048	3.0	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	7 of 30	Milind Tambe	GFS223	PDF (45508 KB)
Data Mining and Statistical Inference
30006D	048	3.0	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	31 of 37	Yan Liu	THH119	PDF (57109 KB)
Internet Measurement
30370D	048	3.0	Lecture	3:30-6:20pm	Wednesday	12 of 25	Ethan Katz-Bassett	THH213	PDF (116030 KB)
Geospatial Data Integration
30371D	048	3.0	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	Canceled	Craig Knoblock		PDF (634997 KB)

CSCI 670: Advanced Analysis of Algorithms (3.0 units)

Fundamental techniques for design and analysis of algorithms. Topics include: dynamic programming; network flows; theory of NP-completeness; linear programming; approximation, randomized, and online algorithms; basic cryptography. Recommended preparation: familiarity with algorithms and discrete mathematics.

Prerequisite: CSCI 570

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30313D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 40	Ming-Deh Huang	WPH207	PDF (64606 KB)

CSCI 673: Structure and Dynamics of Networked Information (3.0 units)

Algorithms for analyzing network data and spreading information over networks. Focuses on broadly applicable mathematical tools and techniques, including spectral techniques, approximation algorithms and randomization. Recommended preparation: basic background in probabilities, linear algebra.

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 570 or CSCI 670)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30344D	048	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	16 of 40	David Kempe	KAP158

CSCI 790: Research (1.0-12.0 units)

Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30208D	048	Lecture	TBA	TBA	72 of 150	Gaurav Sukhatme,Stephen Schrader	OFFICE