ECE 598

Spring 2015 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 20-May 6

Special Topics in ECE

Credit: 0 TO 4 hours.

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in electrical and computer engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites.

May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

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ECE 598 class schedule data for spring 2015
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34021	Discussion/ Recitation	DN	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Nicol, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Science of Computer Security. Prerequisites: CS 463/ ECE 424 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. The security of computers, communications, and data is of great concern to our society. Decades of research have produced solutions to a variety isolated problems, some of which have been produced using techniques that are recognizable as ?scientific?, others of which appear to be ad-hoc. There is a growing sentiment in the community that research in security should be conducted when possible on a scientific or engineering basis. This course examines the questions of what might constitute a science of security, framing the questions around five ?hard areas? proposed by the NSA: Composition, Policy, Metrics, Resiliency, and Human Factors. The students will read and present papers from the literature that exemplify a scientific approach to security, and write essays on the questions raised by the course. The course is intended for graduate students interested in trustworthy systems research. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
44223	Lecture	NB	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Borisov, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Title: Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Prerequisites: CS 461/ECE 422 or CS 463/ECE 424 or consent of instructor. A review of both foundational and recent research results in the field of privacy enhancing technologies, including anonymous communications, censorship circumvention, digital currencies, privacy-enhanced credentials, electronic voting, and privacy-preserving computation. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
60363	Lecture	PM	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg	Moulin, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Comput. Inference & Learning Section Info: Prerequisites: ECE 490, ECE 534. Computational inference and machine learning have seen a surge of interest in the last 15 years, motivated by applications as diverse as computer vision, speech recognition, analysis of networks and distributed systems, big-data analytics, large-scale computer simulations, and indexing and searching of very large databases. This new course will introduce the mathematical and computational methods that enable such applications. Topics include computational methods for statistical inference, information theory, sparsity analysis, approximate inference and search, and fast optimization. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.