Curating in Galleries and Museums
AADM-Y506 with Professor Lewis
This course explores the idea and practice of curating, from displaying a single object to organizing a complex exhibition. Course provides a body of knowledge and helps students develop skills to curate and evaluate the role of curation and display of objects - all essential to museum and gallery management.
Programming Methods in Cognitive Science
COGS-Q530 with Professor Izquierdo
An introduction to computer programming methods for artificial intelligence and computer simulation of cognitive models. Emphasis on the necessary data structures and their application to cognitive science. Programming projects may be related to state-space search for problem solving and game playing, production systems, and cognitive modeling tasks including memory models and neural simulations.
Network Technologies and Systems Administration
CSCI-A538 with Professor Whitmer
Introduction to network principles and current network technology, both hardware and software. Network administration tools and techniques. Laboratory provides practical experience.
Mastering the World Wide Web
CSCI-A548 with Professor German
Project-oriented course leading to ability to maintain a web site with full functionality. Topics include background on internet network protocols and programming, web server administration, advanced web design and authoring, web protocols, interfacing services into the web.
Introduction to Computer Science
CSCI-A591 with Professor Shan
A first course in computer science for those intending to take advanced computer science courses. Introduction to programming and to algorithm design and analysis. Using the Scheme programming language, the course covers several programming paradigms. Lecture and laboratory.
Computer Structures
CSCI-A593 with Professor Malbasa
Structure and internal operation of computers. The architecture and assembly language programming of a specific computer are stressed, in addition to general principles of hardware organization and low-level software systems. Lecture and laboratory.
Data Structures
CSCI-A594 with Professor Sabry
Systematic study of data structures encountered in computing problems; structure and use of storage media; methods of representing structured data; and techniques for operating on data structures. Lecture and laboratory.
Programming Languages
CSCI-A596 with Professor Friedman
Systematic approach to programming languages. Relationships among languages, properties and features of languages, and the computer environment necessary to use languages. Lecture and laboratory.
Introduction to Programming I
CSCI-A597 with Professor n/a
Fundamental programming constructs, including loops, arrays, classes, and files. General problem-solving techniques. Emphasis on modular programming, user-interface design, and developing good programming style. Not intended for computer science majors.
Algorithms Design and Analysis
CSCI-B503 with Professor Zhang
Models, algorithms, recurrences, summations, growth rates. Probabilistic tools, upper and lower bounds; worst-case and average-case analysis, amortized analysis, dynamization. Comparison-based algorithms: search, selection, sorting, hashing. Information extraction algorithms (graphs, databases). Graphs algorithms: spanning trees, shortest paths, connectivity, depth-first search, breadth-first search.
Introduction to Cryptography
CSCI-B504 with Professor Huang
The course provides students with a foundational introduction to cryptography. Students learn the basic primitives used in cryptography such as symmetric encryption, public-key encryption, message authentication codes, digital signatures, cryptographic hashes and related material. Computational aspects of modern cryptography are stressed, as are appropriate security models, and computational security reductions.
Applied Algorithms
CSCI-B505 with Professor n/a
The course studies the design, implementation, and analysis of algorithms and data structures as applied to real world problems. The topics include divide-and-conquer, optimization, and randomized algorithms applied to problems such as sorting, searching, and graph analysis. The course teaches trees, hash tables, heaps, and graphs.
Programming Language Foundations
CSCI-B522 with Professor Siek
Introduction to denotational, operational, and axiomatic approaches to programming language semantics. Semantic analysis of major programming language features. Logics of programs.
Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligence
CSCI-B552 with Professor Van Gucht
Knowledge-based methods for artificial intelligence systems: knowledge representation, organization, and application. Typical content includes: principles of memory organization, indexing and retrieval. Memory-based, analogical, and case-based reasoning. Applications to understanding, explanation, planning, and advisory systems.
Machine Learning
CSCI-B555 with Professor Tiganj
Theory and practice of constructing algorithms that learn functions and choose optimal decisions from data and knowledge. Topics include: mathematical/probabilistic foundations, MAP classification/regression, linear and logistic regression, neural networks, support vector machines, Bayesian networks, tree models, committee machines, kernel functions, EM, density estimation, accuracy estimation, normalization, model selection.
Advanced Database Concepts
CSCI-B561 with Professor Van Gucht
Database models and systems: especially relational and object-oriented; relational database design theory; structures for efficient data access; query languages and processing; database applications development; views. Transaction management: concurrency and recovery.
Advanced Computer Graphics
CSCI-B581 with Professor Hmeljak
Introduction to graphics hardware and software. Two-dimensional graphics methods, transformations, and interactive methods. Three-dimensional graphics, transformations, viewing geometry, object modeling and interactive manipulation methods. Basic lighting and shading. Video and animation
Topics in Data Science: Data Science in Practice
DSCI-D590 with Professor Wild
Emphasis on new developments and research in Data Science.
Topics in Data Science: Introduction to NLP for data Science
DSCI-D590 with Professor Scrivner
Emphasis on new developments and research in Data Science.
Topics in Data Science: Basic Data Science On-Ramp
DSCI-D590 with Professor Xiao
Emphasis on new developments and research in Data Science.
Topics in Data Science: Introduction to Python Programming
DSCI-D590 with Professor Malbasa
Emphasis on new developments and research in Data Science.
Post-1800 Readings in Media: Post-Digital Aesthetics
ENGL-L646 with Professor Hodgson
Art culture and practice, media theory, commercial design, and even humanistic inquiry has, in recent years, gestured toward a shift in our representational practices and preferences. This shift, which includes both aesthetic and rhetorical considerations as well as technological orientations, is increasingly marked by the term post-digital (aligning itself with the longstanding “post” traditions of academia). What is consistent across most post-digital touchstones is a prominent connection between technological and aesthetic transformation and an explicit calling into question previously established aesthetic and rhetorical values and assumptions. To this end, this course will pick up with the challenges presented by the post-digital, oriented in relation to the aesthetic, to matters of materialism, and to (post)humanist considerations. It will explore these considerations via a quadrangle of media theory (and new media theory), digital humanities, philosophy of technology, and digital rhetoric.
HPC and Cloud Computing for Large Scale Image Applications
ENGR-E522 with Professor Fox
This course describes big data techniques for sensors and remote sensing explaining how one architects analysis systems for sensors and remote imagery. Algorithms, software systems, and storage issues are addressed. The inclusion of Geographic Information Systems is covered. Streaming and batch examples from satellite, internet of things and physics data.
Information Visualization
ENGR-E583 with Professor Borner
This course provides students with a working knowledge on how to visualize abstract information and hands-on experience in the application of this knowledge to specific domains, different tasks, and diverse, possibly non-technical users.
Environmental Remote Sensing
GEOG-G502 with Professor Khodaee
Principles of remote sensing of the earth and its atmosphere, emphasizing satellite data in visible, infrared, and microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Emphasis on practical applications and digital image analysis. A satellite data analysis project is required.
Advanced Remote Sensing
GEOG-G535 with Professor Hwang
Advanced remote sensing theory and digital image processing techniques with an emphasis on environmental applications. Hands-on computer exercises provide significant experience in introductory digital image processing for extraction of qualitative and quantitative information about the Earth's terrestrial environments. Lecture and laboratory.
Geographic Information Systems
GEOG-G538 with Professor Kim
Overview of the principles and practices of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The course will deal with issues of spatial data models, database design, introductory and intermediate GIS operations, and case studies of real-world GIS. Laboratory exercises will provide significant hands-on experience. Lecture and laboratory.
Social and Historical GIS
GEOG-G540 with Professor Baeten
User Services and Tools
ILS-Z501 with Professor Backs
This course introduces students to the basic information sources and services among different types of libraries and information centers, including academic, public, special and school media.
Cataloging
ILS-Z504 with Professor Morrison and Hahn
Historical development and principles essential to the understanding of the conceptual foundations of providing bibliographic access and control of materials and information. Discussion and examples in the application of AACR2r will be presented to illustrate and reflect current practice. Emphasis is on monographic publications.
Database Design
ILS-Z511 with Professor Choi
Concerned with access to bibliographic information from a user-centered point of view. Considers various database models such as flat file, relational, and hypertest in terms of text, sound, numeric, image and geographic data. The student will design and implement databases using a variety of commercial DRMS systems.
Web Programming
ILS-Z517 with Professor n/a
Info Architecture for the Web
ILS-Z532 with Professor Ghazinejad
Search
ILS-Z534 with Professor Ghazinejad
The success of commercial search engines shows that Information Retrieval is a key in helping users find the information they seek. This course provides an introduction to information retrieval theories and concepts underlying all search applications. We investigate techniques used in modern search engines and demonstrate their significance by experiment.
Systems Analysis and Design
ILS-Z556 with Professor Hara
Digital Curation
ILS-Z586 with Professor Donaldson
Preserving and providing long-term access to digital materials over time is a Grand Challenge. They require constant and onging maintenance. This course provides an overview of research, policy and current practices in curating and preserving digital data, gives students practical experience, working with digital materials, and creating digital curation plans.
Metadata
ILS-Z634 with Professor Arave
Information Visualization
ILS-Z637 with Professor Hara
Social Media Mining
ILS-Z639 with Professor Ghazinejad
This course provides a graduate-level introduction to social media mining and methods. The course provides hands-on experience mining social data for social meaning extraction (focus on sentiment analysis) using automated methods and machine learning technologies. We will read, discuss, and critique claims and findings from contemporary research related to SMM.
Digital Humanities
ILS-Z657 with Professor Ridell
This course explores uses of information technology in digital humanities (humanities computing) from electronic scholarly editing, to the computational analysis of style, theme, and structure, to the cultural impact of IT on scholarly discourse and publishing. It covers several technologies including extensible Markup Language (XML) and the Text Encoding Initiative.
Fundamental Computer Concepts for Informatics
INFO-I500 with Professor n/a
An introduction to fundamental principles of computer concepts for Informatics study, including an overview of computer architecture, computer algorithms, fundamentals of operating systems, data structure, file organization and database concepts.
Social Media Informatics
INFO-I505 with Professor Paolillo
Social media platforms and research on social media are both defined by their applications of algorithms and interpretations of human agents. This course emphasizes the interplay of these elements, drawing on techniques from linguistics and computational approaches such as natural language processing, network modeling and analysis, and vector space modeling.
Applied Machine Learning
INFO-I526 with Professor Shanahan
The main aim of the course is to provide skills to apply machine learning algorithms on real applications. We will consider fewer learning algorithms and less time on math and theory and instead spend more time on hands-on skills required for algorithms to work on a variety of data sets.
Management, Access, and Use of Big and Complex Data
INFO-I535 with Professor Kouper
Innovation today is emerging from a preponderance of data from sensors, social media, and the Internet. This course covers knowledge representation, data process, and data management for big and complex data. Specific topics include data integration, semantics, and provenance; workflows and pipelines; and distributed noSQL stores.
Introduction to Cryptography
INFO-I538 with Professor Huang
Introduction to the foundational primitives of cryptography and implementations. A primary goal of this course will be to understand the security definitions for each primitive, and how they are used in cryptographic protocols. The ethics of insecure or on-the-fly protocol design will be discussed.
Interaction Design Methods
INFO-I543 with Professor Su
Students will learn basic concepts and methods for usability studies and evaluation of interactive systems as well as apply those methods to actual system design evaluations. This course is not only for understanding the basics and traditional approaches in this area, but also for exploring new ways of evaluating the usability of state-of-the-art technology-based systems such as systems in ubiquitous computing, CSCW, tangible and social computing areas.
Meaning and Form in HCI
INFO-I561 with Professor Blevis
This course is a continuation of Human-Computer Interaction Design I, emphasizing the justification of design effectiveness.
Topics in Informatics: Prototyping with Arduino Tools
INFO-I590 with Professor Francisco
Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.
Topics in Informatics: Introduction to Virtual Reality
INFO-I590 with Professor Wood
Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.
Topics in Informatics: Computational Social Science
INFO-I590 with Professor Fortunato
Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.
Topics in Informatics: Creativity, Innovation, and Tech
INFO-I590 with Professor Blevis
Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.
Topics in Informatics: Designing from Data
INFO-I590 with Professor Su
Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.
Topics in Informatics: Advanced Information Ethics
INFO-I590 with Professor Terrell
Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.
Network Science
INFO-I606 with Professor Fortunato
This course teaches the fundamental theories, algorithms, and key applications of network science across social and biological systems.
Network Science
INFO-I606 with Professor Flammini
This course teaches the fundamental theories, algorithms, and key applications of network science across social and biological systems.
Computation and Linguistic Analysis
LING-L545 with Professor Tyers
This course explores how linguistic analysis can be stated as computer programs, emphasizing the design of data structures used in linguistic analysis, the computational issues underlying them, and their use in natural processing.
Applying Machine Learning Techniques in Computational Linguistics
LING-L665 with Professor Kuebler
Course includes an introduction to CL and to W focused on supervised algorithms: decision trees and rule learning. Also considered are applications of ML algorithms to CL problems.
Seminar in Computational Linguistics
LING-L715 with Professor Cavar
The seminar will introduce students to current research in the field of Computational Linguistics.
Methods of Media Research
MSCH-C506 with Professor Caddoo
Introduction to research methods used in critical studies of media and culture.
Seminar in Visual Communication
MSCH-J520 with Professor Kelly
Integration of advanced visual communication skills, including photography, writing and editing. Individual projects in packaging news and public affairs information. Emphasis on experimentation with message forms outside constraints of the traditional news media.
Media Research
MSCH-M502 with Professor Potter
Introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methodologies used in media.
Media Arts and Sciences
MSCH-M600 with Professor DeBoer
Introduction to current media research through the work of school members and visiting scholars.
Communication, Tech and Society
MSCH-T551 with Professor Sawhney
Research seminar to consider the impact of new technologies on society and how the development and structure of information and communication technologies have been influenced by society. Theories of technology at the social level of analysis.
Projects in Scoring Visual Media
MUS-K502 with Professor Groupe
Electronic Studio Resources II
MUS-K504 with Professor Gibson
Topics in Scoring Visual Media: Intro to Scoring Long Form
MUS-K555 with Professor Groupe
VT: Digital Epigraphy
NELC-E695 with Professor Sugita
Be introduced to the new methods for copying ancient inscriptions and art using digital tools. Students will gain practical experience with these tools, as they work on inscriptions from the Egyptian collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Political Data Analysis II
POLS-Y576 with Professor Webster
This course is designed to build upon the concepts and skills developed in POLS Y575 (Political Data Analysis I). Successful completion of the Y575 course is a prerequisite for enrolling in this course (unless permission has been obtained from the instructor). The first half of the course will introduce students to bivariate and multivariate regression models. We will begin with the linear model, including a discussion of the goals and assumptions of ordinary least squares (OLS). We will also cover models for handling dichotomous dependent variables (logits and probits). The second half of the course will introduce students to the logic of causal inference. Topics covered include DAGs, experiments, difference-in-difference designs, regression discontinuities, and instrumental variables.
International Relations: Network Analysis and World Politics
POLS-Y669 with Professor Winecoff
This course introduces students to concepts in network theory, as well as descriptive and inferential tools of network analysis, with application to the world political system. We will explore how network theory can offer novel insights into enduring problems in world politics, including terrorism, economic development, conflict (intra- and international), and investment. We will examine agency within structures that are rendered as networks, seeking to understand the interdependent contexts in which social action occurs. At each step we will link network characteristics -- e.g., centrality -- to prior concepts in political science -- e.g., hegemony. And we will have weekly exercises so that students become familiar with conducting network analysis using the statistical software R. No prior knowledge of network theory or methodology is should be prepared for technical discussion at times.
Graduate Topics in Digital Art
SOAD-S510 with Professor Ahrndt
Opportunity for students to investigate the computer as an interactive tool in the process of art making while examining aesthetics and processes of major artists working in this field. Provides the opportunity for exploration of the computer’s potential use in the art work of each class member.
Graduate Topics in Digital Art
SOAD-S510 with Professor Blewitt-Gray
Opportunity for students to investigate the computer as an interactive tool in the process of art making while examining aesthetics and processes of major artists working in this field. Provides the opportunity for exploration of the computer’s potential use in the art work of each class member.
Graduate Topics in Digital Art
SOAD-S510 with Professor Dolinsky
Opportunity for students to investigate the computer as an interactive tool in the process of art making while examining aesthetics and processes of major artists working in this field. Provides the opportunity for exploration of the computer’s potential use in the art work of each class member.
Graduate Digital Art
SOAD-S511 with Professor Dolinsky
Through advanced studio projects in digital art, the student will create a body of work involving experimentation with technology incorporating installation, multimedia, networks, virtual environments, and/or portable media. Topics of relevance to contemporary digital art will be considered, such as interaction, time-based media, location, and virtuality.
Graduate Graphic Design
SOAD-S551 with Professor Landerman
Graphic design as an integral element of all visual communication media. Self-defined and assigned study to assure as wide as possible exposure to the problem-solving process.
Vector-Based Geographic Information Systems
SPEA-E518 with Professor Ehman
Geographic information systems using vector data structure. Vector GIS capabilities and uses. Data structure and file management of spatial data. Laboratory exercises using ARC/INFO software.
Applicication of Geographic Information Systems
SPEA-E520 with Professor Ehman
Conceptual and technical overview of geographic information systems (GIS). Applications in various fields of public affairs and environmental science.
Applied Statistical Computing
STAT-S611 with Professor Manrique-Vallier
This course will be an introduction to statistical computing using R and C/C++. It will mainly focus on writing code for solving statistical problems. We will also cover a number of algorithms used in modern statistical computation. Topics may include: computer representation of numbers and finite precision arithmetic, programming in R, advanced R, programing in C/C++, random number generation, Monte Carlo methods, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, numerical linear algebra, and numerical optimization. The selection of specific topics and their emphasis can be adjusted to accommodate the class and instructor's interests and preferences.
Exploratory Data Analysis
STAT-S670 with Professor Fukuyama
Numerical and graphical techniques for summarizing and displaying data. Exploration versus confirmation. Connections with conventional statistical analysis and data mining. Applications to large data sets.
Advanced Data Analysis I
STAT-S771 with Professor Huang
Advanced Data Analysis II
STAT-S772 with Professor Huang
Studies in Stage Lighting
THTR-S538 with Professor Hahn
Variable topics course focusing on lighting genres, techniques, and criticism. Topics include architectural lighting, lighting consulting for the theatre, stage lighting aesthetics, and rendering light.
Sound Design I
THTR-T547 with Professor Hopson
Study of the practical use, aesthetics, and implementation of sound in theatre productions. Focus is on using computers to assist in the creation, selection, and playback of sound cues. Topics include sound system operation and design for both plays and musicals. Emphasis on researching, selecting, and recording music for production.
Lighting Design Seminar
THTR-T646 with Professor Hahn
Development of a lighting designer's critical experience with color, timing, volumetric space, lateral thinking, and creativity are addressed in successive semesters in this project-based course, heavy on critique. With these supporting skills, the designer's work in production can be conducted with greater confidence and assurance of a successful outcome.
Lighting Design in Production
THTR-T650 with Professor Hahn
Lighting designers can only practice their craft by building and executing it in time and space. This course gives them the opportunity to be evaluated for that work through a dialogue-based faculty-guided process from conceptualization, through development and technical rehearsals to opening night.
