CSE 450-010 Mining of Social, Professional, & Web Networks (3)

The web has forever changed access to knowledge, and the development of Web 2.0 tools enabled new methods of communication and interaction. The contexts of and relationships among information (and people) are now becoming explicit, enabling new kinds of automated (and semi-automated analyses. In this seminar, we will explore how to extract and discover knowledge within information, communication and relationship networks and how people us them. Expected topics will include search, usage mining, social networks, information extraction, link analysis, and more. 

This course will focus on reading and presenting papers related to mining networks of information, including the world-wide web, social and professional networks, and will include a semester-long project. Paper and presentation critiques will be required, and course participation will be evaluated. http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/course/2010/webmining/   B. Davison/R. Nagel

CSE 498-010 Advanced Algorithms (3)

Algorithms for searching, sorting, counting, graph and tree manipulation, matrix multiplication, scheduling, pattern matching, fast Fourier transform. Minimum time and space requirements are established, leading to the notion of abstract complexity measures and the intrinsic complexity of algorithms and problems, in terms of asymptotic behavior. The question of the correctness of algorithms is also treated. Prerequisite: Math 22 and CSE 261 (Math 261).  H. Baird

CSE 498-011 Hardware & Software Topics in Parallel Computing (3)
The course is designed to introduce graduate students to the basic ideas in parallel computing, with an emphasis on both hardware and software topics. All students will be expected to propose and complete a semester project dealing with some aspect of parallelism in hardware or software. Topics covered during the course include interconnectiion networks, thread-level speculation, multiprocessor cashe coherence, parallel languages, general-purpose computation on graphics hardware, OpenMp, message passing interface, thread synchronization, parallel languages and compiler techniques, and operating systems for parallel computers. This course may be used to satisfy a Compilers/Languages/Software Systems core reuirement. Prerequisites: ECE 201 and CSE 303 previously or concurrently, or consent of the instructor.  M. Spear