CS 598

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Credit: 2 TO 4 hours.

Lecture course in topics of current interest. See Schedule for current topics.

May be repeated. Prerequisite: As specified for each topic offering, see Schedule or departmental course description.

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CS 598 class schedule data for fall 2007
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
42377	Lecture-Discussion	CAG	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	1131 Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Gunter, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Advanced Computer Security. Prerequisite: a 400 level course in security or consent of instructor. Research projects in security in the areas of monitoring and surveillance, critical infrastructure protection, unwanted traffic on the Internet, secure web services, tamper-resistant security architectures.
46983	Lecture-Discussion	DAF	ARRANGED	n.a.	ARR Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Forsyth, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Optimization in computer vision and machine learning. We will discuss applications of current optimization methods to problems in computer vision and machine learning.
49828	Lecture-Discussion	HI	1:00PM -3:50PM	M	1131 Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Schatz, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Healthcare Infrastructure. Healthcare is the largest industry in the country, but the current infrastructure for providing healthcare is not viable. Recent advances in information technology promise radically different infrastructure that could provide a viable model for providing healthcare. This course will examine healthcare infrastructure through lectures and discussions, through text readings and web sites. There is a particular focus on measuring the health of populations, in the demographic era of chronic illness. Information sources are discussed in detail from medical literature and records to health brochures and monitors. There are no pre-requisites for this course, but students encouraged to use background experiences. Practical topics will be emphasized with the aim of revolutionizing an industry in transition. A semester project will be required, on information technology aspects of population health measurement.
49221	Lecture-Discussion	JH	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	1302 Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Hou, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Advanced Wireless Networking. Prerequisite: CS 438. In this course, we will discuss issues that better define and characterize wireless links and their implications for higher-layer protocol design and optimization. Specifically, we will study the following issues: (T1) control knobs for improving network performance, including power control, physical carrier sense turning, rate control, interference mitigation, channel diversity, and multi-radio and mult-path routing; (T2) modeling and analysis of these control knobs and their effects on the performance; and (T3) cross-layer design and optimization that allow higher-layer protocols to take advanteage of these control knobs. We will also study several representative wireless networks, such as wireless sensor networks and wireless mesh networks.
35992	Lecture-Discussion	MC	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	1111 Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Caccamo, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Advanced Topics in Real-Time Embedded Systems. Prerequisite: CS 424 (Real-Time Systems), or CS 431 (Embedded System Architecture), or consent of the instructor. In this course, we will discuss topics about the design and theoretical analysis of distributed real-time embedded systems. The goal of this course is to provide a deep understanding about resource management in modern networked embedded systems composed of diverse activities with different degrees of criticality and with different forms of timing requirements. This course is structured to improve students' research skill and their ability of critical thinking. Specifically, the course will include the following topics: (T1) design of predictable and efficient soft real-time systems; (T2) real-time resource management for multi-processor platforms; (T3) principles of real-time wireless networking.
49196	Lecture-Discussion	RHC	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	1111 Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Campbell, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Ubiquitous Systems. Ubiquitous and pervasive computing is a new and exciting platform and paradigm for anywhere, anyhow services and information systems. This new research area is a natural outcome of the tremendous advances in wireless networks, mobile computing, sensor networks, distributed computing, and agent technologies. This advanced graduate course is project and reading based and explores issues of applications, privacy, infrastructure, mobile, wireless, and distributed computing in an Internet environment with advanced human-computer interfaces, high-definition multimedia, and powerful, efficient computing. As prerequisites, the students should have basic knowledge of systems and networking, security, and system design.
36005	Lecture-Discussion	RHK	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	1304 Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Kravets, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Advanced Topics in Network Protocols, Architectures and Applications. Prerequisite: CS 438 or equivalent is required; CS 423 or equivalent is recommended. The goal of this course is to expose students to the current state of research in network protocols, architectures and applications as well as to challenge students with the design, organization and implementation of a semester-long research project. This course is aimed at students with some background in networking and communications who wish to explore advanced research topics.
43668	Lecture-Discussion	SML	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	1103 Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Lavalle, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Sensing, Actuation, and Computation. Material: Sensor models, visibility sensors, sensor networks, inference problems, information spaces, actuation models, minimalist planning, visual sweeps, searching with limited information, pursuit-evasion games, sensor-based navigation tasks, coordinate-free models, stochastic models, nontraditional communication models, sensor-centric models of computation, decidability and complexity for actuated sensor systems.
49197	Lecture-Discussion	SNK	9:30AM -10:45AM	WF	1103 Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Kamin, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Program Generation. Program generation can be used to increase programmer productivity and program efficiency. Though it is normally used in an ad hoc way, there are experimental approaches to program generation that can make it easier and safer. We will review the research in this area, including methods, tools, and applications.
49198	Lecture-Discussion	SVA	2:00PM -3:15PM	WF	1131 Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Adve, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Reliability-Aware Computer Architecture. Hardware unreliability is projected to be a major obstacle to reaping the performance benefits predicted by Moore's law over the next decade. A recent conference articulated "Systems You Can Count On" as one of the grand challenges facing computer architects. This course will discuss why reliability is a grand challenge for the future and how computer architects can address this challenge by building reliable systems from unreliable components. We will focus on hardware reliability (including errors due to wear-out, thermal variation, radiation, inadequate burn-in, process variation), but will also cover some material on software reliability. The class will consist of readings from recent literature and a project. Prerequisite: CS 433 or equivalent.