2007-2008 Academic Catalog

Course descriptions


Course descriptions index


Computer Science

A $42 per semester fee for computer facilities will be assessed for one or more CS, STAT and MATH 310, 460 and 660 courses. This fee is in addition to any lab/materials fees.


CS 101      3 Credits
Computers and Society
Computer literacy for everyone. Overview of computing machines and automatic data processing. Interaction between social institutions and automated decision-making. Introduction to business applications software and electronic mail. Some programming for understanding, not for skill development. Also available via Independent Learning. (Prerequisite: Two years of high school mathematics, including at least one year of algebra.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall, Spring


CS 102      3 Credits
Introduction to Computer Science
Introduction to computer science including a discussion of binary numbers, data representation, hardware, software, programming layers, operating systems, applications and networks. This web-based course is offered though the Center for Distance Education. Also available via Independent Learning. (Prerequisite: Two years of high school mathematics, including at least one year of algebra.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall, Spring


CS 103      3 Credits
Introduction to Computer Programming
Programming for non-majors and for those computer science students without the background for CS 201. Concepts of object-oriented programming and algorithm design within the syntax of the JAVA programming language. (Prerequisite: MATH 107X or 103X or 161X.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall, Spring


CS 201      3 Credits
CS 202      3 Credits
Computer Science I and II
The discipline of computer science including problem solving, algorithm development, structured programming, top-down design, good programming style, object-oriented programming and elementary data structures. Concepts implemented with extensive programming experience in a structured language and with a group programming project. (Prerequisites: For CS 201: one year high school level programming or CS 103 and mathematics placement at the 200-level. For CS 202: CS 201.) (3 + 0) Both Offered Fall and Spring  


CS 205      3 Credits
Intermediate Programming
A second high-level programming (such as C, Fortran, Java or Perl) for students with some experience in other programming languages such as Basic, Pascal or Fortran. (Prerequisites: One year high school programming, CS 103, 201, or ES 201. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring


CS 221      3 Credits
Introduction to LINUX
Introduction to the LINUX operating system, including system features, scripting, shell instructions, controlling user processes, maintaining and administering a LINUX system. (Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall


CS 290      1-3 Credits
Student Internship
Computer science project under the joint direction of a faculty member and participating industry or governmental agency. (Prerequisite: Acceptance in an approved internship program.)


CS 301      3 Credits
Assembly Language Programming
Organization of computer registers, I/O and control. Digital representation of data. Symbolic coding, instructions, addressing modes, program segmentation, linkage, macros and subroutines. (Prerequisite: CS 201.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall


CS 302      3 Credits
Systems Security and Administration
Advanced systems programming including privileged instructions, system services, authentication technologies, host-based and network-based security issues. Applications to asynchronous I/O, process control and communication, device drivers and file management. (Prerequisite: CS 301. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring


CS 307      3 Credits
Discrete Mathematics
(Cross-listed with MATH 307)
Logic, counting, sets and functions, recurrence relations graphs and trees. Additional topics chosen from probability theory. (Prerequisite: MATH 201X or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall, Spring


CS 311      3 Credits
Data Structures and Algorithms
Data structures and the algorithms for their manipulation. Object-oriented programming, arrays, tables, stacks, queues, trees, linked lists, sorting, searching and hashing. (Prerequisite: CS 202.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall, Spring


CS 321      3 Credits
Operating Systems
Functions of files and operating systems. Review of required architectural features. The PROCESS concept. Storage management, access methods and control, interrupt processing, scheduling algorithms, file organization and management, and resource accounting. (Prerequisite: CS 301.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring


CS 331      3 Credits
Programming Languages
Syntax and semantics of widely differing programming languages. Syntax specification, block structure, binding, data structures, operators and control structures. Comparison of several languages such as ALGOL, LISP, SNOBOL and APL. (Prerequisite: CS 311.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring


CS 381      3 Credits
Computer Graphics
Creation of computer-generated images on programmable 3-D graphics hardware. Color, lighting, textures, hidden surfaces, 3-D geometric transformations, curve and surface representations, 2-D and 3-D user interfaces, and the visual modeling of physical phenomena. (Prerequisites: CS 202 and either MATH 202X or MATH 314) (3 + 0) Offered Fall


CS 402W, O     3 Credits
Senior Project and Professional Practice
Group projects in a real computer industry environment and produce appropriate documentation and reports. Nature, ethics and legal considerations of the computer science profession are discussed with an emphasis on ethics. Additional topics include project management, design methodologies, technical presentation, human-machine interface and programming team interactions. (Prerequisites: CS 471; COMM 131X or 141X; ENGL 111X; ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring


CS 405      3 Credits
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Examine diverse branches of Al placing Al in larger context of computer science and software engineering. Knowledge representation formalism and search technology. Programming methodologies; procedural systems such as expert systems and blackboard systems and non-procedural systems such as neural networks. Software engineering aspects of problem selection, knowledge acquisition, verification and validation. Individual projects. (Prerequisite: CS 311 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2007-08.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring


CS 411      3 Credits
Analysis of Algorithms
Analysis of classic algorithms, their implementation and efficiency. Topics from combinatorics (sets, graphs), algebra (integer arithmetic, primes, polynomial arithmetic, GCD, Diophantine equations, encryption), systems (parsing searching, sorting) and theory (recursion, Turing machines). The complexity classes P, NP and NP complete. (Prerequisites: MATH 307, CS 311.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall


CS 421W      3 Credits
Distributed Operating Systems
Detailed level study of distributed operating system algorithms, functions and associated implementation. Distributed operating system tuning methods and security. Role of distributed operating systems in net-centric computing. Programming, documentation and evaluation of distributed operating system segments as projects. (Prerequisites: CS 321; ENGL 111X; ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X or permission of the instructor. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall


CS 425      3 Credits
Database Systems
Data independence, modeling, relationships and organization. Hierarchical, network and relational data models; canonical schema. Data description languages, SQL, query facilities, functional dependencies, normalization, data integrity and reliability. Review of current database software packages. (Prerequisites: CS 311, 321. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring


CS 431W     3 Credits
Programming Language Implementation
Design and implementation of major phases of high level language translators including scanning, parsing, translation, code generation and optimization. Students develop a compiler for a language in a group project which emphasizes good software engineering practices in structured design, testing and documentation. (Prerequisites: CS 331; ENGL 111X; ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants


CS 441      3 Credits
System Architecture
Computer design fundamentals, performance and cost, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, memory hierarchy design, storage systems and vector processing. (Prerequisites: CS 321 and EE 341. (3 + 0) Offered Fall


CS 442      3 Credits
Computer Communication and Networks
Study of computer networks using the ISO/OSI layered model as a framework. Design issues and trade-offs, protocols and selected standards. Emphasis on ISO/OSI Layers 1-4 (Physical, Data Link, Network and Transport Layers), plus medium access sublayers (LAN's, etc.). (Prerequisite: CS 321. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall


CS 451      3 Credits
Automata and Formal Languages
Finite automata, regular languages, phrase structured grammars, context free language, push down automata, deterministic context free languages, recursive and recursively enumerable languages, Turing machines, decision problems, and undecidability. (Prerequisites: MATH 307, CS 201.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring


CS 471W      3 Credits
Software Engineering
(Cross-listed with SWE 471W)
Introduction to basic software engineering principles, techniques, methods and standards as applied to the engineering of complex software systems. Topics from software system development process models, multiple view system modeling and specification using UML, classification of software systems, project management and legal issues. (Prerequisites: CS 311; ENGL 111X; ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X; or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall


CS 480      3 Credits
Topics in Computer Science
Topics in computer science. Topics include, but are not limited to, computational linear algebra, cryptography, parallel algorithm development and analysis. (Course may be repeated when topics change.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants


CS 481      3 Credits
Topics in Computer Graphics
Hardware, software and techniques used in computer graphics taken from topics such as volume rendering, particle systems, shading, image processing, computer aided design, video effects, animation and virtual environments. (Prerequisites: CS 381.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring


CS 490      1-3 Credits
Student Internship
Students work on computer science project under the joint direction of a faculty member and participating industry or governmental agency. (Prerequisites: Junior standing and acceptance in an approved internship program.)


CS 602      3 Credits
Software Project Management
Work in an IT project environment to produce appropriate documentation and reports. Nature, ethics and legal considerations of managing IT projects are discussed. Includes project management, design methodologies, scope management, risk management, human-machine interface and IT team interactions. (Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor) (3 + 0) Offered Spring


CS 605      3 Credits
Artificial Intelligence
Study and writing of AI programs: expert systems, expert system shells, blackboard systems, neural networks. Representation of knowledge, pattern analysis, inference networks, neural network training. Study of software engineering aspects of AI software. (Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of CS graduate advisor. Next offered: 2007-08.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring


CS 611      3 Credits
Complexity of Algorithms
Theoretical analysis of various algorithms: topics include sorting, searching, selection, polynomial evaluation, NP completeness, decidability. (Prerequisites: CS 411.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall


CS 621      3 Credits
Advanced Systems Programming
Multiprogramming and multiprocessing systems. File and program security. Scheduling optimization and system tuning, I/O processing, archiving and system recovery, and initialization. Study of current systems. (Prerequisites: CS 311 and CS 321.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants


CS 622      3 Credits
Performance Evaluation
A survey of techniques of modeling and testing concurrent processes and the resources they share. Includes levels and types of system simulation, performance prediction, benchmarking and synthetic loading, hardware and software monitors. (Prerequisites: CS 321 or permission of computer science graduate advisor.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants


CS 625      3 Credits
Database Systems Design
The design and analysis of database systems including data independence, relationships and organization. Focus on data models, file organization and security, index organization, data integrity and reliability. Review of current database software packages. Design and implementation of a database application project. (Prerequisites: CS 311.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall


CS 631      3 Credits
Programming Language Implementation
Formal treatment of programming language translation and compiler design. Parsing context-free languages, translation specifications, machine independent code, NBF, scanners, symbol tables, parsers and recursive descent. Programming of compiler or interpreter segments as projects. (Prerequisite: CS 331.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall


CS 641      3 Credits
Advanced Systems Architecture
A study of advanced single processor systems. Detailed study of multiprocessor architectures, such as vector architectures, massively parallel processors and shared-memory multi-processors. (Prerequisites: CS 441 or permission of Computer Science graduate advisor.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring


CS 642      3 Credits
Advanced Computer Networks
A study of networks of interacting computers. The problems, rationales and possible solutions for both distributed processing and distributed databases will be examined. Major national and international protocols will be presented. (Prerequisite: Graduate student standing or permission of CS graduate advisor. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall


CS 651      3 Credits
The Theory of Computation
Languages and formal models of algorithms: Turing machines, phrase structured grammars and recursive functions. Undecidability, the halting problem, Rice's Theorem. (Prerequisite: CS 451. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring


CS 661      3 Credits
Optimization
(Cross-listed with MATH 661)
Linear and nonlinear programming, simplex method, duality and dual simplex method, post-optimal analysis, constrained and unconstrained nonlinear programming, Kuhn-Tucker condition. Applications to management, physical and life sciences. Computational work with the computer. (Prerequisites: Knowledge of calculus, linear algebra, and computer programming. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall


CS 670      3 Credits
Computer Science for Software Engineers
(Cross-listed with SWE 670)
An overview and survey of the theoretical underpinnings of computer science. Topics are taken from the areas of algorithms and data structures; computer architecture; computer networks, communications and operating systems; computability and formal languages; languages and compilation. (Prerequisite: admission to the Master of Software Engineering degree program. Not required for students with a B.S. degree in Computer Science.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall, Spring


CS 671      3 Credits
Advanced Software Engineering
(Cross-listed with SWE 671)
Advanced software development as an engineering discipline. Includes investigation of current tools, standards, foundation and trends in software engineering from component-ware, software system composition, e-systems, software architecture and CASE tools. (Prerequisites: CS 471 and acceptance into the Master of Software Engineering degree program; or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring


CS 672      3 Credits
Software Process Improvement
(Cross-listed with SWE 672)
Commonly applied methods for improving the software development process. Emphasis on the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model, and specifically on the key process areas of Level 2 and Level 3 of that model. These include software configuration management, software quality assurance and software standards. (Prerequisites: CS 671 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring


CS 673      3 Credits
Software Requirements Engineering
(Cross-listed with SWE 673)
Focus on the requirements analysis phase of the software development life cycle. Study ways to obtain, analyze and specify complete and correct sets of requirements. Critique of selected requirements analysis models. Study of current large scale software developments that have failed or are failing. Development of software requirements specifications for large and real software systems via team efforts. Also available via Independent Learning. (Prerequisites: CS 671 or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants


CS 674      3 Credits
Software Architecture
(Cross-listed with SWE 674)
Software architectural styles are introduced and defined as structural descriptions of software systems. Methods for constructing and binding software systems are introduced and specified as operational views. The architectural approach, as a classical engineering method for describing structure and behavior of technical artifacts, will be applied for the composition of software systems. (Prerequisite: CS 671.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring


CS 680      1-4 Credits
Topics in Computer Science
Topics in computer science. Example topics include, but are not limited to, software requirements engineering, cryptography, parallel algorithm development and analysis. (Prerequisite: Varies with each topic. Recommended: Varies with each topic. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.) Offered As Demand Warrants


CS 681      3 Credits
Topics in Computer Graphics
Hardware, software and techniques used in computer graphics taken from topics such as refresh, storage, raster scan technology, volume rendering, particle systems, shading, image processing, computer aided design, video effects, animation and virtual environments. (Prerequisite: CS 481 and MATH 314.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring


CS 690      3 Credits
CS 691      3 Credits
Graduate Seminar and Project
(Cross-listed with SWE 690/691)
A two-semester seminar in which students will, individually or in teams, work on and present the results of major programming or literature survey projects in computer science or software engineering. Written and oral reports will be required. (Prerequisites: 12 credits in graduate computer science or software engineering courses; or permission of Computer Science or Software Engineering graduate advisor.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall-Spring