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CSCI 100xg: Explorations in Computing (4.0 units)

A behind-the-scenes overview of the computational/algorithmic principles that form the basis of today's digital society. Exploration areas include social media, web search, videogames and location-based services.

General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
Note: This is a GE-F Quantitative Reasoning course for NON-MAJORS. No credit will be awarded to CSCI, CECS, CSGM, or CSBA majors.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30211R	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	58 of 60	Sathyanaraya Raghavachary	CPA156
30212R	001	Lab	12:00-12:50pm	Wednesday	29 of 30		SAL109
30213R	001	Lab	1:00-1:50pm	Wednesday	29 of 30		SAL109

CSCI 102L: Fundamentals of Computation (2.0 units)

Fundamental concepts of algorithmic thinking as a primer to programming. Introduction to C++.

Note: D Clearance Request Form tinyurl.com/CSCI102DClearance

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
29918D	001	Lecture	2:00-2:50pm	Mon, Wed	93 of 115	Mark Redekopp	SGM123	PDF (292843 KB)
30235D	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	109 of 115	Mark Redekopp	ZHS159	PDF (292843 KB)
30010R	001	Lab	5:00-5:50pm	Tuesday	12 of 13		THH107
30011R	001	Lab	12:00-12:50pm	Tuesday	13 of 13		KAP150
30012R	001	Lab	12:00-12:50pm	Tuesday	9 of 13		VHE214
30013R	001	Lab	11:00-11:50am	Wednesday	11 of 13		GFS202
30018R	001	Lab	12:00-12:50pm	Wednesday	13 of 13		GFS108
30020R	001	Lab	1:00-1:50pm	Wednesday	13 of 13		KAP141
30021R	001	Lab	12:00-12:50pm	Wednesday	10 of 13		CPA208
30022R	001	Lab	1:00-1:50pm	Wednesday	7 of 13		KAP134
30080R	001	Lab	5:00-5:50pm	Tuesday	10 of 13		THH105
30081R	001	Lab	12:00-12:50pm	Tuesday	11 of 13		GFS205
30082R	001	Lab	12:00-12:50pm	Tuesday	5 of 13		SOSB47
30083R	001	Lab	11:00-11:50am	Wednesday	10 of 13		THH109
30084D	001	Lab	12:00-12:50pm	Wednesday	Canceled
30086R	001	Lab	12:00-12:50pm	Wednesday	7 of 13		THH107
30087D	001	Lab	1:00-1:50pm	Wednesday	Canceled
30088R	001	Lab	10:00-10:50am	Tuesday	13 of 13		CPA255
30089R	001	Lab	4:00-4:50pm	Tuesday	12 of 13		GFS105
30090R	001	Lab	4:00-4:50pm	Tuesday	10 of 13		KAP141
30364R	001	Lab	10:00-10:50am	Tuesday	12 of 13		THH109
30365R	001	Lab	4:00-4:50pm	Tuesday	11 of 13		KAP138
30370R	001	Lab	4:00-4:50pm	Tuesday	12 of 13		KAP167
30328R	001	Quiz	7:00-8:50pm	Wednesday	202 of 230		THH201

CSCI 103L: Introduction to Programming (4.0 units)

Basic datatypes, assignments, control statements (if, switch, for, while), input/output (printf, scanf, cin, cout), functions, arrays, structures, recursion, dynamic memory, file handling. Programming in C/C++.

Prerequisite: CSCI 102
Note: Prerequsite Waiver Request Form tinyurl.com/103170prereq

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
29922D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	111 of 200	Andrew Goodney	SGM101
30186D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	137 of 200	Andrew Goodney	THH201
30395D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	98 of 105	Andrew Goodney	ZHS159
29902R	001	Lab	3:00-4:50pm	Friday	35 of 36		SAL127
29913R	001	Lab	4:00-5:50pm	Friday	29 of 30		SAL109
29914R	001	Lab	4:00-5:50pm	Friday	36 of 36		SAL126
29924R	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Friday	26 of 30		SAL109
29925R	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Friday	35 of 36		SAL126
29926R	001	Lab	10:00-11:50am	Friday	35 of 36		SAL126
29927R	001	Lab	12:00-1:50pm	Friday	29 of 31		SAL126
30180R	001	Lab	10:00-11:50am	Friday	29 of 30		SAL109
30193R	001	Lab	5:00-6:50pm	Friday	29 of 36		SAL127
30286R	001	Lab	8:00-9:50am	Friday	36 of 36		SAL126
30313R	001	Lab	8:00-9:50am	Friday	27 of 30		SAL109
30024R	001	Quiz	7:00-8:50pm	Thursday	346 of 500		TBA

CSCI 104L: Data Structures and Object Oriented Design (4.0 units)

Introduces the student to standard data structures (linear structures such as linked lists, (balanced) trees, priority queues, and hashtables), using the C++ programming language.

Prerequisite: CSCI 103 and CSCI 170

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
29930D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	90 of 100	Aaron Cote	SOSB2
29931D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	117 of 137	Aaron Cote	THH101
29905R	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Tuesday	11 of 30		SAL109
29907R	001	Lab	4:00-5:50pm	Tuesday	24 of 30		SAL109
29932R	001	Lab	12:00-1:50pm	Friday	23 of 30		SAL109
29933R	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Wednesday	30 of 30		SAL109
29937R	001	Lab	5:00-6:50pm	Thursday	26 of 36		SAL126
29938R	001	Lab	12:00-1:50pm	Friday	26 of 36		SAL127
30210R	001	Lab	10:00-11:50am	Wednesday	25 of 36		SAL127
30251R	001	Lab	4:00-5:50pm	Wednesday	20 of 30		SAL126
30252R	001	Lab	12:00-1:50pm	Wednesday	22 of 30		SAL126
30025R	001	Quiz	7:00-8:50pm	Friday	207 of 260		TBA

CSCI 170: Discrete Methods in Computer Science (4.0 units)

Sets, functions, series. Big-O notation and algorithm analysis. Propositional and first-order logic. Counting and discrete probability. Graphs and basic graph algorithms. Basic number theory.

Prerequisite: CSCI 102
Note: Prerequsite Waiver Request Form tinyurl.com/103170prereq

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30136D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	146 of 200	Victor Adamchik	SGM124
30137D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	150 of 200	Victor Adamchik	SAL101
30139R	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	Canceled
29929R	001	Discussion	4:00-5:50pm	Friday	17 of 125		THH102
29954R	001	Discussion	2:00-3:50pm	Friday	72 of 125		THH301
29980R	001	Discussion	10:00-11:50am	Friday	79 of 125		THH102
30106R	001	Discussion	12:00-1:50pm	Friday	69 of 125		THH301
30299R	001	Discussion	12:00-1:50pm	Friday	30 of 70		LVL17
30300R	001	Discussion	2:00-3:50pm	Friday	29 of 70		LVL17
30027R	001	Quiz	7:00-8:50pm	Wednesday	296 of 500		TBA

CSCI 201: Principles of Software Development (4.0 units)

Object-oriented paradigm for programming-in-the-large in Java; writing sophisticated concurrent applications with animation and graphic user interfaces; using professional tools on team project. Prerequisite: CSCI 104L.

Prerequisite: CSCI 104

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
29979D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	65 of 125	Victor Adamchik	GFS116
29998D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	147 of 150	Victor Adamchik	MRF340
29904R	001	Lab	6:00-7:50pm	Wednesday	27 of 30		SAL109
30134R	001	Lab	4:00-5:50pm	Tuesday	36 of 37		SAL126
30237R	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Tuesday	37 of 37		SAL126
30238R	001	Lab	12:00-1:50pm	Wednesday	13 of 37		SAL127
30239R	001	Lab	10:00-11:50am	Wednesday	35 of 37		SAL126
30241R	001	Lab	6:00-7:50pm	Tuesday	14 of 31		SAL109
30385R	001	Lab	4:00-5:50pm	Wednesday	31 of 31		SAL109
30396R	001	Lab	6:00-7:50pm	Tuesday	19 of 37		SAL126
30028R	001	Quiz	5:00-6:50pm	Thursday	212 of 275		OFFICE

CSCI 270: Introduction to Algorithms and Theory of Computing (4.0 units)

Algorithm analysis. Greedy algorithms, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, graph algorithms. NP-completeness and basic recursion theory and undecidability. Sorting lower bounds. Number-theory based cryptography.

Prerequisite: CSCI 104 and CSCI 170

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30263D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	113 of 115	Aaron Cote	MRF340
30245D	001	Discussion	8:00-9:50am	Friday	41 of 75		ZHS352
30361R	001	Discussion	10:00-11:50am	Friday	72 of 75		THH301
30029R	001	Quiz	7:00-8:50pm	Thursday	113 of 150		TBA
29959R	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	69 of 115	Shaddin Dughmi	SGM101
30362R	001	Discussion	12:00-1:50pm	Friday	44 of 75		WPHB27
30363R	001	Discussion	2:00-3:50pm	Friday	25 of 75		WPHB27
30222R	001	Quiz	7:00-8:50pm	Thursday	69 of 150		TBA

CSCI 310: Software Engineering (4.0 units)

Introduction to the software engineering process and software lifecycle. Covers project management, requirements, architecture, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance phase activities in team based projects. Prerequisites: CSCI 201. Duplicates credit in former CSCI 377.

Prerequisite: CSCI 201

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30113D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	150 of 150	William Halfond	THH202	PDF (99328 KB)

CSCI 350: Introduction to Operating Systems (4.0 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. Duplicates credit in CSCI 402.

Prerequisite: CSCI 201 and 1 from (CSCI 356 or EE 354)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29969R	001	Lecture	2:00-5:20pm	Monday	150 of 200	Tanya Ryutov	THH301
29970R	001	Quiz	TBA	TBA	150 of 200		OFFICE

CSCI 353: Introduction to Internetworking (4.0 units)

Global Internet: design principles, layering, protocol design/analysis.Networked applications, Internet structure/architecture,Protocols for transport/congestion control, network layer/routing,link layer/MAC. Network security. Prerequisites: CSCI 201. Recommended preparation: Familiarity with C and C++.Duplicates credit in EE 450.

Prerequisite: CSCI 201

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30247D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	51 of 60	William Cheng	GFS101	PDF (3330 KB)
29977R	001	Discussion	TBA	TBA	51 of 60		OFFICE

CSCI 356: Introduction to Computer Systems (4.0 units)

Computer organization; entity abstraction and representation; program execution; code optimization; memory usage; exception handling; processing control; computer performance; hands-on work done in C and assembly.

Prerequisite: CSCI 104

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
29912R	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	88 of 70	Mark Redekopp	SLH102
29962R	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	62 of 100	Marco Paolieri	WPHB27
29916R	001	Discussion	2:00-3:50pm	Friday	47 of 67		THH208
30124R	001	Discussion	10:00-11:50am	Friday	56 of 67		THH208
30126R	001	Discussion	12:00-1:50pm	Friday	47 of 67		THH208
30285R	001	Quiz	4:00-5:50pm	Friday	150 of 200		TBA

CSCI 360: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (4.0 units)

Concepts and algorithms underlying the understanding and construction of intelligent systems. Agents, problem solving, search, representation, reasoning, planning, machine learning. Prerequisites: CSCI 104 and CSCI 170. Duplicates credit in former CSCI 460.

Prerequisite: CSCI 104 and CSCI 170

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30043R	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	92 of 150	Sven Koenig	SGM123
30044R	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	56 of 150	Sven Koenig	THH301
29983R	001	Quiz	6:00-7:50pm	Tuesday	148 of 300		THH201

Crosslist CSCI 368: Programming Graphical User Interfaces (4.0 units)

Programming applications with dynamic graphical user interfaces. Topics include events, controls, resources, data bindings, styles and user experience.

Prerequisite: 1 from (ITP 265 or CSCI 103)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the ITP department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in ITP 368.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
31807D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	30 of 38	Barrett Koster	OHE540	PDF (458430 KB)

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: CSCI-104 or ITP-365.

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 104 or ITP 365)
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
31872D	001	Lecture-Lab	5:00-6:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 35	Clark Kromenaker	OHE540	PDF (321458 KB)
32083D	001	Lecture-Lab	10:00-11:50am	Tue, Thu	34 of 35	Matthew Whiting	OHE540	PDF (321458 KB)

CSCI 401: Capstone: Design and Construction of Large Software Systems (4.0 units, max 8)

Group project with an outside stakeholder to develop real-world software solutions to large-scale problems. Topics include software engineering, professional preparation, and recent computer science research. Duplicates credit in CSCI 477a and CSCI 477b.

Prerequisite: (CSCI 270 and CSCI 310)
Note: This course is only open to undergraduate students. No exceptions.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30227R	001	Lecture	8:00-9:50am	Mon, Wed	159 of 162	Jeffrey Miller	THH202	PDF (351570 KB)

CSCI 402: Operating Systems (4.0 units)

Concurrency, deadlock control, synchronization, process and thread scheduling, memory management, file systems, security and access control, communication and networking, distributed file systems, data management. Duplicates credit in CSCI 350.

Note: CSCI 402 is open only to graduate students.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
29945D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	49 of 75	William Cheng	OHE136	PDF (3330 KB)
30197D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	39 of 75	William Cheng	ZHS352	PDF (3330 KB)
30147R	001	Discussion	TBA	TBA	26 of 75		OFFICE
30268R	001	Discussion	TBA	TBA	62 of 75		OFFICE
29946D	014	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	18 of 25	William Cheng	DEN@Viterbi	PDF (3330 KB)
30145R	014	Discussion	TBA	TBA	18 of 25		DEN@Viterbi

CSCI 420: Computer Graphics (4.0 units)

Computer graphics, OpenGL, 2D and 3D transformations, Bzier splines, computer animation, rendering including ray tracing, shading and lighting, artistic rendering, virtual reality, visualization.

Prerequisite: CSCI 104 and 1 from (MATH 225 or (EE 141 and MATH 126) or (EE 141 and MATH 127) or (EE 141 and MATH 129))
Restriction: Registration closed to the following class level(s): Freshmen, Sophomore

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30230R	001	Lecture	2:00-5:20pm	Tuesday	57 of 75	Andrew Nealen	LVL17
30372R	001	Discussion	TBA	TBA	57 of 80		OFFICE

CSCI 426: Game Prototyping (4.0 units)

Developing games or technology based on current and relevant special topics.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30242D	001	Lecture	1:00-4:20pm	Wednesday	20 of 25	Andrew Nealen	SCI108

CSCI 430: Introduction to Computer and Network Security (4.0 units)

A broad overview of security threats and defenses, security systems and functionalities, as well as current security practices. Includes homeworks and in-class exercises to provide practical experience working with such systems. Prerequisite: CSCI 201.

Prerequisite: CSCI 201

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29997D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	54 of 56	Jelena Mirkovic	GFS118

Crosslist CSCI 435: Professional C++ (4.0 units)

Applications of advanced concepts in C++ including lambda expressions, templates, secure coding, parallel programming, writing performant code, CMake and continuous integration.

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 104 or ITP 365)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the ITP department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in ITP 435.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
32042D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	52 of 60	Sanjay Madhav	KAP160	PDF (319697 KB)

CSCI 445L: Introduction to Robotics (4.0 units)

Designing, building and programming mobile robots; sensors, effectors, basic control theory, control architectures, some advanced topics, illustrations of state-of-the-art. Teamwork; final project tested in a robot contest. Junior standing or higher. Prerequisites: CSCI 103.

Prerequisite: CSCI 103
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Junior, Senior

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
30386D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	32 of 34	Heather Culbertson	GFS223	PDF (369725 KB)
29956R	001	Lab	1:00-3:50pm	Tuesday	16 of 17		RTH419
29958R	001	Lab	1:00-3:50pm	Thursday	16 of 17		RTH419

Crosslist CSCI 450: Introduction to Computer Networks (4.0 units)

Network architectures; layered protocols, network service interface; local, wide area, wireless networks; Internet protocols; link protocols; addressing; routing; flow control; software defined network; multimedia networks.

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, one discussion & quiz

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
30500R	001	Lecture	7:30-9:20am	Tue, Thu	114 of 120	Ali Zahid	OHE122
30623R	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	46 of 50	Cauligi Raghavendra	THH116	PDF (318417 KB)
30450R	001	Discussion	5:00-5:50pm	Monday	45 of 50	Cauligi Raghavendra	SOSB46
30504R	001	Discussion	4:00-4:50pm	Monday	115 of 120	Ali Zahid	OHE122
30684R	001	Quiz	4:00-5:50pm	Friday	160 of 260		TBA
31186D	014	Quiz	4:00-5:50pm	Friday	16 of 30	Ali Zahid	DEN@Viterbi
30545D	014	Lecture	7:30-9:20am	Tue, Thu	16 of 30	Ali Zahid	DEN@Viterbi
30546D	014	Discussion	4:00-4:50pm	Monday	16 of 30	Ali Zahid	DEN@Viterbi

Crosslist CSCI 452: Parallel and Distributed Computation (4.0 units)

Introduction to parallel programming techniques, models and optimization strategies; Application mapping to multi-core, accelerator, GPU and cloud platforms; High Performance Computing and Data Science applications.

Prerequisite: 1 from (EE 355 or CSCI 201)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 451.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30408R	001	Lecture	3:30-5:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 60	Xuehai Qian	THH114
30409R	001	Lab	3:30-4:20pm	Friday	16 of 60		KDC235

Crosslist CSCI 454L: Introduction to System-on-Chip (4.0 units)

Design flow, tools, and issues related to System/Network-on-Chip (S/Noc) design for real-time embedded systems with applications in mobile, cloud, aerospace, and medical electronics. Prerequisite: EE 354.

Prerequisite: EE 354
Crosslist: This course is offered by the EE department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in EE 454.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30911D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	40 of 42	Shahin Nazarian	CPA101
30559R	001	Lab	9:00-10:50am	Friday	40 of 45		OHE230

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 lab.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
30100D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	149 of 155	Claire Bono	SAL101
30192R	001	Lab	8:00-9:50am	Friday	30 of 30	Claire Bono	SAL127
30206R	001	Lab	12:00-1:50pm	Thursday	30 of 30	Claire Bono	SAL109
30207R	001	Lab	4:00-5:50pm	Thursday	31 of 32	Claire Bono	SAL109
30261R	001	Lab	7:00-8:50pm	Thursday	30 of 32	Claire Bono	SAL109
30262R	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Thursday	28 of 30	Claire Bono	SAL109
29963D	014	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	29 of 35	Claire Bono	DEN@Viterbi	PDF (119609 KB)
29964R	014	Lab	TBA	TBA	29 of 35	Claire Bono	DEN@Viterbi

Crosslist CSCI 457: Computer Systems Organization (4.0 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 354
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	Syllabus
31284D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	71 of 72	Gandhi Puvvada	THH212	PDF (632996 KB)
31305D	014	Lecture	3:30-5:20pm	Tue, Thu	8 of 20	Gandhi Puvvada	DEN@Viterbi	PDF (632996 KB)
31338D	001	Lecture	3:30-5:20pm	Tue, Thu	71 of 82	Gandhi Puvvada	OHE132	PDF (632996 KB)
30569R	001	Discussion	4:00-4:50pm	Wednesday	58 of 85		OHE122
30605R	001	Discussion	12:00-12:50pm	Friday	84 of 88		THH102
31285D	014	Discussion	4:00-4:50pm	Wednesday	8 of 20		DEN@Viterbi
31336D	014	Quiz	5:30-8:30pm	Thursday	8 of 20		DEN@Viterbi
31337R	001	Quiz	5:30-8:30pm	Thursday	142 of 250		OFFICE

Crosslist CSCI 458: Numerical Methods (4.0 units)

Rounding errors in digital computation; solution of linear algebraic systems; Newton's method for nonlinear systems; matrix eigenvalues; polynomial approximation; numerical integration; numerical solution of ordinary differential equations.

Prerequisite: 1 from (MATH 225 or MATH 245)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the MATH department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in MATH 458.
Note: Register for one lecture & one discussion listed immediately following that lecture

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
39679D	001	Lecture	12:00-12:50pm	MWF	32 of 49	Cymra Haskell	THH116
39680D	001	Discussion	10:00-10:50am	Tue, Thu	15 of 25		GFS104
39681D	001	Discussion	11:00-11:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 25		GFS104
39682D	001	Lecture	2:00-2:50pm	MWF	49 of 50	Ricardo Mancera	CPA156
39683D	001	Discussion	12:00-12:50pm	Tue, Thu	23 of 25		GFS104
39684D	001	Discussion	1:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	26 of 26		GFS104

CSCI 461: Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development (4.0 units)

Hands-on AI: data mining, machine learning, optimization and fairness in the context of applications with environmental and societal benefit.

Prerequisite: CSCI 270 and 1 from (CSCI 360 or CSCI 467)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29996D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	12 of 35	Bistra Dilkina	CPA201	PDF (432025 KB)

CSCI 467: Introduction to Machine Learning (4.0 units)

Methods for building intelligent and adaptive systems from statistical analyses; theoretical understanding of such methods and the computational implications.

Prerequisite: (CSCI 270 and MATH 225) and 1 from (EE 364 or MATH 407)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
30277R	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	32 of 70	Mohammad Reza Rajati	LVL17	PDF (171915 KB)
30278R	001	Discussion	4:00-5:50pm	Monday	23 of 35		CPA151
30279R	001	Discussion	4:00-5:50pm	Tuesday	9 of 35		CPA207

CSCI 476: Cryptography: Secure Communication and Computation (4.0 units)

Introduction to modern Cryptography; Mathematical/algorithmic studies of methods for protecting information in computer and communication systems: Public-Key Cryptosystems, zero-knowledge proofs, data privacy. Prerequisites: CSCI 270.

Prerequisite: CSCI 270

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30030R	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	21 of 30	Shanghua Teng	GFS223

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: ITP-380.

Prerequisite: 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
31889D	001	Lecture-Lab	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	11 of 38	Matthew Whiting	KAP158	PDF (433140 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	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30144D	001	Lecture	TBA	TBA	15 of 35	Lizsl De Leon	OFFICE

CSCI 491aL: Final Game Project (4.0 units)

a: Design, iterative prototyping, and development of a 1st playable level. Open only to seniors.

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

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29989R	001	Lecture-Lab	2:00-5:20pm	Thursday	37 of 40	Scott Easley	EGG108

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	TBA	TBA	4 of 4	Christopher Gould	OFFICE

CSCI 499: Special Topics (2.0-4.0 units, max 8)

Selected topics in computer science.

Section	Session	Units	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
Advanced Programming Paradigms
30270R	001	4.0	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	5 of 30	Mukund Raghothaman	KAP166	PDF (325774 KB)

Crosslist CSCI 505a: Applied Probability (3.0 units)

Populations, permutations, combinations, random variables, distribution and density functions, conditional probability and expectation,; binomial, poisson, and normal distributions; laws of large numbers, central limit theorem. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor.

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

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
39710R	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	MWF	27 of 45	Remigijus Mikulevicius	KAP144

CSCI 510: Software Management and Economics (4.0 units)

Theories of management and their application to software projects. Economic analysis of software products and processes. Software cost and schedule estimation, planning and control.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30007D	048	Lecture	9:00-10:50am	Mon, Wed	116 of 120	Barry Boehm	OHE122
30005D	034	Lecture	9:00-10:50am	Mon, Wed	17 of 20	Barry Boehm	DEN@Viterbi

CSCI 513: Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (4.0 units)

Components, software and applications of cyber-physical systems; autonomy; control techniques; development and testing; artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30161D	048	Lecture	2:00-5:20pm	Monday	27 of 48	Jyotirmoy Deshmukh	KAP156	PDF (207970 KB)

CSCI 522: Game Engine Development (4.0 units)

The principles of developing game engines targeted at modern PC and game console hardware.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30183D	048	Lecture	7:00-10:20pm	Monday	36 of 55	Artjoms Kovalovs	THH208

CSCI 526: Advanced Mobile Devices and Game Consoles (4.0 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 420 or CSCI 580 or an equivalent course in graphics.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30130D	048	Lecture	3:30-6:50pm	Wednesday	71 of 90	Mike Zyda	THH201	Word (48939 KB)
30189D	048	Lecture	2:00-5:20pm	Monday	66 of 90	Scott Easley	SCI108	PDF (546938 KB)

CSCI 527: Applied Machine Learning for Games (4.0 units)

Application of machine learning for AI-bot creation, gameplay analysis, and real-time game player understanding. Duplicates credit in CSCI 566 Deep Learning and Its Applications.

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 561 or CSCI 567)
Note: Students who have completed CSCI 566 will NOT RECEIVE DEGREE CREDIT for CSCI 527. Students who waive the prerequisites for this course cannot take them in a future semester.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30306D	048	Lecture	3:30-6:50pm	Tuesday	84 of 90	Mike Zyda	WPHB27	Word (43046 KB)

CSCI 529a: Advanced Game Projects (4.0 units)

Team projects intended to address the multifaceted technical and creative challenges that are inherent to comprehensive game development. Recommended preparation: CSCI 522 or CTIN 488.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29992D	048	Lecture	2:00-5:20pm	Thursday	34 of 70	Matthew Whiting	EGG108

CSCI 530: Security Systems (4.0 units)

Protecting computer networks and systems using cryptography, authentication, authorization, intrusion detection and response. Includes lab to provide practical experience working with such systems.

Prerequisite: CSCI 402
Note: The pre-req of CSCI 402 is automatically waived for CS MS students and Cyber Security Engineering students. Students in scientists and engineers are required to take 402.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30015D	048	Lecture	9:00-11:50am	Friday	66 of 100	Clifford Neuman	OHE122
30017R	048	Lab	4:30-5:20pm	Friday	66 of 100		OHE122
30014D	034	Lecture	9:00-11:50am	Friday	18 of 25	Clifford Neuman	DEN@Viterbi
30016R	034	Lab	4:30-5:20pm	Friday	18 of 25		DEN@Viterbi

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	5:00-7:50pm	Wednesday	32 of 37	Sima Parisay	CPA203	PDF (324800 KB)

CSCI 544: Applied Natural Language Processing (4.0 units)

Introduction to key components of human language technologies, including: information extraction, sentiment analysis, question answering, machine translation.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30249D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	202 of 220	Mohammad Rostami,Xuezhe Ma	SAL101	PDF (114655 KB)

CSCI 545: Robotics (4.0 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. Recommended preparation: Basic knowledge in linear algebra (matrices and vectors), calculus, programming in C/C++ or any another language or permission of the instructor.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29975D	048	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	77 of 78	Stefanos Nikolaidis	LVL17
30226R	048	Lab	8:00-9:50am	Friday	77 of 78		RTH419

CSCI 551: Computer Networking (4.0 units)

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

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 353 or EE 450) and 1 from (CSCI 350 or CSCI 402)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29900D	048	Lecture	10:30-12:20pm	Mon, Wed	8 of 40	John Heidemann	OHE132	PDF (180158 KB)
30009D	034	Lecture	10:30-12:20pm	Mon, Wed	4 of 10	John Heidemann	DEN@Viterbi	PDF (180158 KB)

CSCI 555L: Advanced Operating Systems (4.0 units)

Advanced topics in operating system research: new OS structures, novel memory management, communication, file system, process management, reliability and security techniques.

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 350 or CSCI 402)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30191D	048	Lecture	4:00-5:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 40	Ramesh Govindan	GFS101
30091R	048	Lab	TBA	TBA	18 of 40		OFFICE

CSCI 556: Introduction to Cryptography (4.0 units)

Modern secret codes. Public key cryptosystems of Rivest- Shamir-Adleman, Diffie-Hellman and others. The underlying number theory and computational complexity theory.

Prerequisite: 1 from (CSCI 570 or CSCI 581)

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30196D	048	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	19 of 30	Ming-Deh Huang	CPA200	PDF (75515 KB)

Crosslist CSCI 557: Computer Systems Architecture (4.0 units)

Computer architecture from a design perspective: Pipelined processors, speculative execution, VLIW, vector processors, GPU/GPGPU, memory technology and 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.
Note: Register for lecture & discussion

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30628D	034	Lecture	3:30-5:20pm	Tue, Thu	7 of 20	Murali Annavaram	DEN@Viterbi
30630R	048	Lecture	3:30-5:20pm	Tue, Thu	38 of 53	Murali Annavaram	OHE100D
30629R	034	Discussion	1:00-1:50pm	Friday	7 of 20		DEN@Viterbi
30631R	048	Discussion	1:00-1:50pm	Friday	38 of 53		OHE100D

CSCI 561: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (4.0 units)

Foundations of symbolic intelligent systems, search, logic, knowledge representation, planning, learning.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
30202D	048	Lecture	5:00-7:20pm	Wednesday	289 of 330	Wei-Min Shen	SGM123	PDF (59594 KB)
30295R	048	Discussion	7:30-8:20pm	Wednesday	289 of 330		SGM123
29981R	048	Quiz	TBA	TBA	289 of 330		OFFICE
30079D	034	Lecture	5:00-7:20pm	Wednesday	10 of 25	Wei-Min Shen	DEN@Viterbi	PDF (59594 KB)
30305R	034	Discussion	7:30-8:20pm	Wednesday	10 of 25		DEN@Viterbi
29982R	034	Quiz	TBA	TBA	10 of 25		DEN@Viterbi

Crosslist CSCI 563: Building Knowledge Graphs (4.0 units)

Foundations, techniques and algorithms for building knowledge graphs and doing so at scale. Topics include information extraction, data alignment, entity linking and the Semantic Web.

Corequisite: 1 from (DSCI 551 or INF 551 or CSCI 585) and 1 from (DSCI 552 or INF 552 or CSCI 567)
Crosslist: This course is offered by the DSCI department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in DSCI 558.
Note: This is not a CSCI course and will count as a non-CSCI course for any CS MS student.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
32425D	048	Lecture	3:30-5:20pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 40	Jay Pujara,Luis Garcia	CPA261

CSCI 567: Machine Learning (4.0 units)

Statistical methods for building intelligent and adaptive systems that improve performance from experiences; Focus on theoretical understanding of these methods and their computational implications. Recommended preparation: Undergraduate level training or coursework in linear algebra, multivariate calculus, basic probability and statistics; an undergraduate level course in Artificial Intelligence may be helpful but is not required.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
29995D	048	Lecture	5:00-7:20pm	Thursday	232 of 275	Haipeng Luo	SGM123	PDF (52827 KB)
30151R	048	Discussion	7:30-8:20pm	Thursday	232 of 275		SGM123
29984R	048	Quiz	TBA	TBA	232 of 275		OFFICE
30259D	034	Lecture	5:00-7:20pm	Thursday	9 of 20	Haipeng Luo	DEN@Viterbi
30272R	034	Discussion	7:30-8:20pm	Thursday	9 of 20		DEN@Viterbi
29985R	034	Quiz	TBA	TBA	9 of 20		DEN@Viterbi

CSCI 570: Analysis of Algorithms (4.0 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
30101D	048	Lecture	5:00-7:20pm	Monday	314 of 330	Shahriar Shamsian	SGM123
29928R	048	Discussion	7:30-8:20pm	Monday	314 of 330		SGM123
29923R	048	Quiz	5:00-6:50pm	Friday	314 of 330		TBA
30102D	048	Lecture	5:00-7:20pm	Wednesday	224 of 241	Shahriar Shamsian	SGM124
30342R	048	Discussion	7:30-8:20pm	Wednesday	224 of 241		SGM124
30379R	048	Quiz	5:00-6:50pm	Friday	224 of 241		TBA
30274D	048	Lecture	5:00-7:20pm	Thursday	310 of 319	Shahriar Shamsian	THH101
30275R	048	Discussion	7:30-8:20pm	Thursday	310 of 319		THH101
30276R	048	Quiz	5:00-6:50pm	Friday	310 of 319		TBA
30099D	034	Lecture	5:00-7:20pm	Wednesday	41 of 50	Shahriar Shamsian	DEN@Viterbi
30253R	034	Discussion	7:30-8:20pm	Wednesday	41 of 50		DEN@Viterbi
30152R	034	Quiz	5:00-6:50pm	Friday	41 of 50		DEN@Viterbi

CSCI 571: Web Technologies (4.0 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	Syllabus	Info
30221D	048	Lecture	5:30-7:20pm	Tue, Thu	180 of 190	Marco Papa	SGM124	PDF (134522 KB)
30177D	034	Lecture	5:30-7:20pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 20	Marco Papa	DEN@Viterbi	PDF (134522 KB)

CSCI 572: Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines (4.0 units)

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

Note: This course is now closed and no longer accepting new students.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30059D	048	Lecture	7:00-8:50am	Tue, Thu	229 of 230	Ellis Horowitz	SGM124	PDF (463529 KB)
30060D	034	Lecture	7:00-8:50am	Tue, Thu	20 of 24	Ellis Horowitz	DEN@Viterbi

CSCI 576: Multimedia Systems Design (4.0 units)

End-to-end multimedia systems - content creation, compression, distribution using modern standards, DRM solutions, Digital-Cinema pipeline, multimedia classification, virtual-augmented reality, natural-language multimedia queries, multimodal media analysis, stereoscopic-holographic technologies.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30225D	048	Lecture	6:40-10:10pm	Monday	67 of 90	Parag Havaldar	SGM124
30224D	034	Lecture	6:40-10:10pm	Monday	7 of 10	Parag Havaldar	DEN@Viterbi

CSCI 577a: Software Engineering (4.0 units)

A: Software life-cycle processes; planning considerations for product definition, development, test, implemetation, maintenance. Team project. Graduate standing.

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

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30128D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	MWF	76 of 120	Barry Boehm,Supannika Mobasser	OHE122
30127D	034	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	MWF	20 of 40	Barry Boehm,Supannika Mobasser	DEN@Viterbi

CSCI 580: 3-D Graphics and Rendering (4.0 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
30250D	048	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	55 of 60	Ulrich Neumann	CPA156	PDF (71215 KB)
29935R	048	Discussion	3:30-4:20pm	Tuesday	55 of 60		HAR101

CSCI 585: Database Systems (4.0 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. Recommended preparation: Knowledge of relational databases, SQL, relational algebra and physical database design is required. Open only to graduate students.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Master Student, Doctoral Student

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
30150D	048	Lecture	5:00-7:20pm	Tuesday	316 of 330	Sathyanaraya Raghavachary	SGM123
30308R	048	Discussion	7:30-8:20pm	Tuesday	316 of 330		SGM123
30371R	048	Quiz	7:00-8:50pm	Friday	316 of 330		TBA
30095D	048	Lecture	5:00-7:20pm	Wednesday	305 of 319	Sathyanaraya Raghavachary	THH101
30096R	048	Discussion	7:30-8:20pm	Wednesday	305 of 319		THH101
30097R	048	Quiz	7:00-8:50pm	Friday	305 of 319		TBA
30149D	034	Lecture	5:00-7:20pm	Tuesday	24 of 25	Sathyanaraya Raghavachary	DEN@Viterbi
30092R	034	Discussion	7:30-8:20pm	Tuesday	24 of 25		DEN@Viterbi
30148R	034	Quiz	7:00-8:50pm	Friday	24 of 25		DEN@Viterbi

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	Units	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30162D	048	1.0-5.0	Lecture	TBA	Tue, Thu	7 of 375	Lizsl De Leon	OFFICE
30350D	048	1.0-4.0	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Wednesday	31 of 150	Lizsl De Leon	MHP101

CSCI 591: Computer Science Research Colloquium (1.0 units, max 2)

Exploration and critical assessment of research activities in computer science. Course will serve as a forum for current research presentations from academia and industry. Graded CR/NC.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
29965D	048	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	88 of 150	Lizsl De Leon, Angela Inostroza-Hoffman	MHP101

Crosslist CSCI 593: Mathematical Foundations for System Design: Modeling, Analys (4.0 units)

Fundamental techniques underlying the methodologies for system design, from integrated circuits to cyber-physical systems. Design flows, fundamental classes of models, and verification and synthesis techniques.

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
30844R	048	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	9 of 40	Pierluigi Nuzzo	THH119	PDF (309770 KB)
30845R	048	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Monday	9 of 48		VPD106

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
30170D	048	Lecture	TBA	TBA	3 of 20		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	0 of 25		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
30171D	048	Lecture	TBA	TBA	1 of 25		OFFICE

CSCI 596: Scientific Computing and Visualization (4.0 units)

Hands-on training on the basics of parallel computing and scientific visualization in the context of computer simulations in science and engineering. Recommended preparation: CSCI 455 and MATH 458 .

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30280D	048	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	91 of 97	Aiichiro Nakano	LVL17 & ONLINE	PDF (99236 KB)
30146R	048	Discussion	3:30-4:20pm	Friday	91 of 97		SOSB2 & ONLINE

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
Quantum Computing and Quantum Cryptography
30004D	048	4.0	Lecture	3:30-5:20pm	Mon, Wed	13 of 25	Ming-Deh Huang	CPA202	PDF (269866 KB)
Blockchain Technology and Applications
30019D	048	4.0	Lecture	2:00-5:20pm	Monday	Canceled	Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Crosslist CSCI 626: Computational Social Sciences (4.0 units)

Discussion of advances in computational social sciences, including automated text and network analysis. Recommended preparation: PSYC-625.

Crosslist: This course is offered by the PSYC department but may qualify for major credit in CSCI. To register, enroll in PSYC 626.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
52749D	001	Lecture	2:00-5:50pm	Thursday	14 of 17	Morteza Dehghani	OFFICE	PDF (133040 KB)

CSCI 631: Privacy in the World of Big Data (4.0 units)

Privacy challenges that arise in the world driven by data. An overview of algorithmic and technical approaches to addressing them.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30219D	048	Lecture	2:00-5:20pm	Thursday	18 of 21	Aleksandra Korolova	CPA200	PDF (147144 KB)

Crosslist CSCI 658: Diagnosis and Design of Reliable Digital Systems (3.0 units)

Fault models; test generation; fault simulation; self-checking and self-testing circuits; design for testability; fault tolerant design techniques; case studies.

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 658.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30787R	048	Lecture	5:30-8:20pm	Monday	22 of 60	Moe Tabar	LVL17

CSCI 662: Advanced Natural Language Processing (4.0 units)

Computational models of natural language. Formalisms for describing structures of human language, and algorithms for learning language structures from data. Recommended preparation: Proficiency in programming, algorithms and data structures, discrete math, probability theory, and calculus. Open only to doctoral students. (Duplicates credit in former CSCI 562)

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30240D	048	Lecture	3:30-5:20pm	Mon, Wed	24 of 25	Jonathan May	KAP166	PDF (141272 KB)

CSCI 670: Advanced Analysis of Algorithms (4.0 units)

Fundamental techniques for design and analysis of algorithms. Dynamic programming; network flows; theory of NP-completeness; linear programming; approximation, randomized, and online algorithms; basic cryptography. Prerequisite: CSCI 570. Recommended preparation: familiarity with algorithms and discrete mathematics. Open only to doctoral students.

Prerequisite: CSCI 570
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30236D	048	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	29 of 40	Shanghua Teng	VHE217

CSCI 677: Advanced Computer Vision (4.0 units)

Fundamental issues in computer vision: theory, algorithms and applications. Image formation, image segmentation, inference and measurement of 3-D, motion analysis, object and activity recognition.

Note: MS students may request this course via myViterbi. You do not need to email the professor for permission.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30228D	048	Lecture	5:30-7:20pm	Tue, Thu	58 of 60	Ram Nevatia	OHE136	PDF (121068 KB)
30229D	034	Lecture	5:30-7:20pm	Tue, Thu	5 of 10	Ram Nevatia	DEN@Viterbi	PDF (121068 KB)

CSCI 697: 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. Duplicates credit in former CSCI 597.

Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Computer Science
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30176D	048	Lecture	12:00-12:50pm	Monday	52 of 100	Cyrus Shahabi	ZHS159

CSCI 698: Practicum in Teaching Computer Science (1.0 units, max 2)

Practical principles for the long-term development of effective teaching in Computer Science. Intended for teaching assistants for classes offered by the Computer Science department. Graded CR/NC. Open only to Computer Science doctoral students.

Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Computer Science
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
30209D	048	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	Monday	53 of 57	Laurent Itti	THH118 & ONLINE

CSCI 699: Special Topics (2.0-4.0 units, max 8)

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

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student

Section	Session	Units	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Representation Learning for Natural Language Processing
29967D	048	4.0	Lecture	3:00-6:20pm	Monday	15 of 25	Xiang Ren	SOSB41	PDF (534265 KB)
Quantitative Information Flow and Side Channels
29968D	048	4.0	Lecture	3:00-6:20pm	Wednesday	5 of 25	Chao Wang	SOSB41	PDF (1210814 MB)
Theory of Machine Learning
30006D	048	4.0	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	17 of 25	Vatsal Sharan	KAP141
Adversarial Machine Learning
30172D	048	4.0	Lecture	3:00-6:20pm	Monday	0 of 1	Muhammad Naveed	VPD107
Boolean Function Analysis
30271D	048	4.0	Lecture	4:00-5:50pm	Tue, Thu	11 of 30	Jiapeng Zhang	THH110

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	188 of 200	Lizsl De Leon	OFFICE