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3.00 Credits
C. Nevison, J. Spacco This course surveys the tools and techniques for the design and implementation of large systems on computers, both local and distributed. The organizational and communications problems associated with large system design are discussed, as well as methods for overcoming these problems. This course includes a laboratory component in which students work in teams to design part or all of a large system. The required credit-bearing laboratory COSC 303L must be taken concurrently with COSC 303. Prerequisites: COSC 102 and 201. Offered in the spring only.
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3.00 Credits
P. Mulry This course introduces the theory of computing and includes such topics as automata and their relationship to formal grammars, Turing machines and other models of computing, undecidable problems, and computational complexity. The required credit-bearing laboratory COSC 304L must be taken concurrently with COSC 304. Prerequisites: COSC 102 and 290. Offered in the fall only.
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3.00 Credits
P. Mulry This course surveys the salient features of diverse programming languages and examines the foundations and principles of language design. Topics include formal description of language syntax, ambiguity, storage allocation, parameter linkage, and current issues in language design. The required credit-bearing laboratory COSC 420L must be taken concurrently with COSC 420. Prerequisites: COSC 304 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
V. Ramachandran An exploration of the principles by which high-level programs and their data structures are analyzed and mapped into corresponding low-level implementations and representations. Topics include regular expressions and symbol tables for lexical analysis, attribute grammars and tree manipulations for syntactic/semantic analysis, continuations, unification-based inference of data types, and graph-theoretic algorithms for program optimization. The required credit-bearing laboratory COSC 425L must be taken concurrently with COSC 425. Prerequisites: COSC 201 and 304, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A.D. Nakhimovsky This seminar investigates how computers can be made to behave "intelligently." Particular topics include the programming language LISP, natural language processing, computer vision, search techniques, AI databases, story comprehension, medical diagnosis, and problem-solving. The emphasis is on writing small versions of classic AI programs. The required credit-bearing laborator y COSC 430 L must be taken concurrently with COSC 430. Prerequisite: COSC 303 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
J. Spacco This seminar is an introduction to the concepts and techniques of interactive computer graphics. A broad spectrum of subjects including computational geometry, picture generation and display, illumination models, ray tracing, and the design of user interfaces are discussed. A special independent project based on individual study and normally involving a substantial working program is expected of each student. The required credit-bearing laboratory COSC 435L must be taken concurrently with COSC 435. Prerequisite: COSC 303 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
J. Sommers A brief historical review of computer operating systems serves as an introduction to a detailed consideration of the machine and language features required to support a complex time-sharing operating system. The ideas and techniques of interrupts, concurrent processing, paging, scheduling, reentrant procedures, and various memory protection schemes are studied. The required credit-bearing laboratory COSC 440L must be taken concurrently with COSC 440. Prerequisite: COSC 303 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
C. Nevison This course surveys the field of parallel and distributed computing, covering hardware design and architecture, interconnection networks, and parallel algorithms. In addition to the broad survey, students concentrate on the implementation of message-passing parallel computers and algorithms. This aspect of the course includes laboratory work using the parallel computer laboratory. The required credit-bearing laboratory COSC 445L must be taken concurrently with COSC 445. Prerequisites: COSC 303 and 304, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
P. Mulry This course addresses topics in the theory of computation and the semantics of programming languages. Topics include axiomatic, denotational, and operational semantics, type theory, and categorical models of computation. Students work collectively, presenting and implementing various issues raised in the course. The required credit-bearing laboratory COSC 450L must be taken concurrently with COSC 450. Prerequisite: COSC 304 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A.D. Nakhimovsky This course addresses theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects of creating distributed web applications. It introduces students to meta-languages, such as XML and related technologies, and in the process builds on their theoretical background in formal languages and grammars, parsing, and interpretation. It also builds on and further develops the background in software engineering that students acquire in COSC 303. The emphasis is on distributed systems consisting of components interacting over standard interfaces, frequently using XML as a standard format for data interchange and presentation. The course includes a group project. The required credit-bearing laboratory COSC 455L must be taken concurrently with COSC 455. Prerequisites: COSC 303 and 304 ( the latter may be concurrent), or permission of instructor.
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