Graduate Info

Graduate Core

MS and PhD students must take 6 courses from the following core areas. The number of courses they take from these four core areas must follow the distribution 2, 2, 1, 1, but the student can choose from which areas they take 2 courses and from which areas they take 1 course.

MS students, in addition to the core, must also take 3 electives, 1 advanced topics course, and 1 colloquium course.

PhD students must also take 2 electives, 2 advanced topics courses, 2 research project independent studies, and 1 colloquium course.

Computing Systems

525: Principles of Computer Networking
552: Advanced Operating Systems
553: Principles of Compilation
576: Computer Architecture

Software Systems

520: Principles of Programming Languages
522: Parallel and Distributed Computing
560: Database Systems Implementation

Theory and Algorithms

545: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
573: Theory of Computation

Applications

533: Computer Graphics
537: Computational Geometry
577: Introduction to Computer Vision

Approved 25 March 2007 by the Graduate Affairs Committee (Alon Efrat, Rajiv Gupta, John Kececioglu (Chair), Rhonda Leiva, and Lin Tranh)