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Master of Financial Mathematics with Emphasis in Computer Science
For an Emphasis in Computer Science
- please take CSCI 5106; AND
- please take CSCI 5523; AND
- please take one of the following courses:
CSCI 5109 or CSCI 5115 or CSCI 5135 or CSCI 5271 or CSCI 5525 or CSCI 5707.
These courses are offered by the Computer Science Department, and are
recommended to those students in our program who wish to enhance their
knowledge of computer science.
These courses may be taken at any time.
WARNING:
Courses listed on this website may have prerequisites; see the syllabi
to check on those. If you have any question about whether you are
ready to take a certain course, please speak to the course instructor
and/or your advisor.
NOTE:
Completion of these "with Emphasis in Computer Science" requirements
also also fulfills the requirements for a Master's level minor in
Computer Science. If you wish to obtain that minor, you'll need to get the
signature of the Computer Science DGS on your degree program form.
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CSCI 5106
Programming Languages
Prerequisite: CSCI 4011
3 credits
Syllabus
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Design and implementation of high-level languages. Course has two
parts: (1) language design principles, concepts, constructs; (2)
language paradigms, applications. Note: course does not teach how
to program in specific languages.
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CSCI 5109
Visualization
Prerequisite: both CSCI 1902 and CSCI 4041
3 credits
Syllabus
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Fundamental theory/practice in data visualization. Emphasizes
programming applications. Volume visualization, vector field
visualization, information visualization, multivariate
visualization, visualization of large datasets, visualization in
immersive virtual environments, and perceptual issues in effective
data representation. Projects are implemented in C++ using VTK or
similar visualization API.
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CSCI 5115
User Interface Design, Implementation and Evaluation
Prerequisite: CSCI 4041
3 credits
Syllabus
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Theory, design, programming, and evaluation of interactive
application interfaces. Human capabilities and limitations,
interface design and engineering, prototyping and interface
construction, interface evaluation, and topics such as data
visualization and World Wide Web. Course is built around a group
project.
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CSCI 5135
Programming the Interactive Internet
Prerequisite: CSCI 5115
3 credits
Syllabus not yet available
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New course. Description not ready yet.
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CSCI 5271
Introduction to Computer Security
rerequisite: 4061
3 credits
Syllabus
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Concepts of computer, network, and information security. Risk
analysis, authentication, access control, security evaluation, audit
trails, cryptography, network/database/application security,
viruses, firewalls.
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CSCI 5523
Introduction to Data Mining
Prerequisite: CSCI 4041
3 credits
Syllabus
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Data pre-processing techniques, data types, similarity measures,
data visualization/exploration. Predictive models (e.g., decision
trees, SVM, Bayes, K-nearest neighbors, bagging, boosting). Model
evaluation techniques, Clustering (hierarchical, partitional,
density-based), association analysis, anomaly detection. Case
studies from areas such as earth science, the Web, network
intrusion, and genomics. Hands-on projects.
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CSCI 5525
Machine Learning
Prerequisite: none
3 credits
Syllabus
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Models of learning. Supervised algorithms such as perceptrons,
logistic regression, and large margin methods (SVMs,
boosting). Hypothesis evaluation. Learning theory. Online algorithms
such as winnow and weighted majority. Unsupervised algorithms,
dimensionality reduction, spectral methods. Graphical models.
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CSCI 5707
Principles of Database Systems
Prerequisite: CSCI 4041
3 credits
Syllabus
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Concepts, database architecture, alternative conceptual data models,
foundations of data manipulation/analysis, logical data models,
database designs, models of database security/integrity, current
trends.
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