Course Timetable

Section	Day	Time	Instructor	Exam Date	Delivery
2020 Fall 2021 Winter 2021 Spring/Summer
CS 805 - Computer Graphics
Geometric and other advanced modelling techniques; image rendering and synthesis techniques; interactive graphics; issues in computer animation. Prior to registering in this course, students should have a background in computer graphics comparable to the senior undergraduate level.
001	MWF	2:30pm - 3:20pm	Xue-Dong Yang	14-DEC-20
CS 824 - Informational Retrieval
Content analysis; types of storage and retrieval systems; retrieval models; information theory; multimedia retrieval; hypertext; information network and inference. Prior to registering for this course, students should have a background in algorithms and data structures, and database and information retrieval comparable to the senior undergraduate level.
001	TR	10:00am - 11:15am	Mengjun Hu	10-DEC-20	RLDS
CS 828 - Human Computer Communication
Theory and practice related to the design and implementation of usable software and easy-to-learn interfaces. Specific topics will include user-centered design and task analysis; prototyping and the iterative design cycle; interface design and methods of evaluation.
001	TR	11:30am - 12:45pm	Daryl Hepting	22-DEC-20	RLWS
CS 831 - Knowledge Discov in Databases
Knowledge discovery from databases in the nontrivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown, and potentially useful information from databases. This course focuses on data sources, extraction techniques, efficiency concerns, and measures of novelty and usefulness. Prior to registering for this course, students should have a background in database and information retrieval, and artificial intelligence comparable to the senior undergraduate level.
001	MWF	10:30am - 11:20am	Lisa Fan
CS 875 - Database Systems
Database management system architecture; relational, network and hierarchical data models; theoretical and practical aspects of database applications; study of data definition and data manipulation facilities and database management systems; security and integrity; distributed database management system architecture. * Note: Prior to registering in this course, students should have a background in advanced topics in database systems, and database and information retrieval comparable to the senior undergraduate level. *
001	TR	08:30am - 09:45am	Cortney Butz	22-DEC-20
CS 890AC - DataAnalysis from the Internet
Data Analysis from the Internet: Language, indexing and classification; extracting and abstracting by computer; stylistic analysis, statistical models and the entropy of English; hidden Markov models; probablistic context-free grammars; data analysis via data mining and rule induction; ELEM2.
001	MW	5:30pm - 6:45pm	Trevor Tomesh	21-DEC-20
CS 890AU - Adv Artifical Intelligence
Advanced artificial intelligence: advanced issues in artificial intelligence.
001		-	Mehdi Sadeqi
CS 890BA - Secure Computers and Networks
Secure Computers and Networks: Fundamentals of Computer Security, Cryptography and Security Standards, Fire walls and Web Security and Case studies.
001		-	Habib Louafi
CS 890BN - Cryptography and Data Security
Mathematical background of Cryptography, cryptographic protocols and techniques, symmetric-key cryptography algorithms and securtiy analysis. One-way hash functions and public-key algorithms. Examples of cryptographic systems.
001	MW	7:00pm - 8:15pm	Qian Yu		RLDS
CS 890BR - Constraint Programming
Constraint satisfaction, stochastic search, CLP, TSLP.
001		-	Malek Mouhoub
CS 890DO - Topics in Compiler Design
Design and implementation of compilers. Topics include lexical analysis, parsing, context-sensitive analysis, intermediate representation, optimization, and code generation.
001	TR	5:30pm - 6:45pm	Hanlin Hu	15-DEC-20	RLDS
CS 890EC - Computational Learning Theory
Selected topics in computational learning theory and applications, e.g., models of interactive machine learning, privacy-preserving learning, statistical learning, recursion-theoretic models of learning, complexity analysis of learning algorithms. Reading materials include 2 book chapters and 10-15 research articles. A term project is required.
001		-	Sandra Zilles
CS 890EM - Topics in Algorithm Analysis
This course provides an intensive study of one or more topics related to Algorithmic Analysis. Potential topics include formal algorithmic languages, measures of complexity, type of analysis, bounds of algorithms, classes of problems, and parallel computational models and algorithms.
001	MWF	11:30am - 12:20pm	Boting Yang		RLWS
CS 900 - Computer Science Graduate Seminar
CS Graduate students must complete two semesters of CS 900, with the exception of MSc Course Route students, who must complete one semester of CS 900. When enrolled in CS 900, a student must make one presentation and attend all presentations. In the first semester of CS 900, the student will choose a Computer Science topic within their research area. In the second semester of CS 900 (if required), the student will choose a topic within their own research.
001	MWF	3:30pm - 4:20pm	Habib Louafi
CS 901 - Research
Thesis research.
001		-	Cortney Butz
003		-	Lisa Fan
004		-	Howard Hamilton
005		-	Daryl Hepting
008		-	Malek Mouhoub
010		-	Samira Sadaoui-Mouhoub
012		-	Boting Yang
013		-	Xue-Dong Yang
014		-	Jingtao Yao
015		-	Yiyu Yao
019		-	David Gerhard
022		-	Sandra Zilles
023		-	Orland Hoeber
024		-	Habib Louafi
025		-	Alireza Manashty
026		-	Nashid Shahriar
CS 902 - Project Research
A supervisor approved project requiring an in-depth student investigation of a CS problem.
001		-	Cortney Butz
003		-	Lisa Fan
004		-	Howard Hamilton
005		-	Daryl Hepting
008		-	Malek Mouhoub
010		-	Samira Sadaoui-Mouhoub
012		-	Boting Yang
013		-	Xue-Dong Yang
014		-	Jingtao Yao
015		-	Yiyu Yao
019		-	David Gerhard
022		-	Sandra Zilles
023		-	Orland Hoeber
024		-	Habib Louafi
025		-	Alireza Manashty