Spring 2008 CSE Courses Not Listed in Catalog

CSE 098-010 Intelligent Machine: The Computer in Pop Culture (1)
No technology has had a bigger impact on society over the past 50 years than the computer. This 1-credit course will examine how computers – and the scientists and engineers who build and use them – have been portrayed in movies and literature. We will study both realistic, present-day depictions as well as dark, futuristic visions. By tapping the creative imaginations of filmmakers and authors, we will strive to acquire a deeper understanding of the ultimate potential of this “intelligent machine” that now pervades nearly every aspect of our lives.  D. Lopresti

CSE/CSB/STS 198-010 Cultural Dynamics and Technological Innovation (3)
The globalization of commerce has made cross-cultural networking of companies and of people within companies a necessity for technology-based competitiveness. The course will explore the impact of cultural values on the way people from different countries view leadership, collaboration, personal and property rights, contracts, and relationships with others. Students will examine the implications of cultural values for the increasingly multi-national exploitation of technology among companies in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Latin. R. Nagel

CSE 241-010 Data Base Systems (3)
New course description: Design of large databases; Normalization; Query languages (including SQL); Transaction-processing protocols; Query optimization; Performance tuning; Distributed systems.  Not available to students who have credit for CSE 341 or IE 224. Prerequisites: CSE 17, CSE 109, or consent of Instructor.  H. Korth

CSE 450-010 Special Topics in Bioinformatics (3)
Bioinformatics is the development of new computational techniques to assist in the analysis of the vast quantities of biological data arising from such efforts as the Human Genome Project and DNA microarray experiments. In this special topics course, we will focus on a small number of specific problem areas. These may include genomics, microarray analysis, phylogenetics, and structural bioinformatics. We will conduct an intensive study, reading technical papers from the literature and examining existing algorithms. Mandatory group meetings will be held once a week. A final paper and/or project is required. Opportunities may arise to work with biologists on real problems of interest. Prerequisite: a previous course on bioinformatics algorithms.  D. Lopresti

CSE 398-12 Database Systems, Algorithms, and Applications (3) Design of large databases; Normalization; Query languages (including SQL); Transaction-processing protocols; Query optimization; Performance tuning; Distributed systems.  Not available to students who have credit for CSE 341 or IE 224. Prerequisites: CSE 17, CSE 109, or consent of Instructor.   H. Korth

 CSE 398/CSE 498-010 Special Topics in Hardware Description Language (3) This course teaches Verilog, a language used to describe hardware.   Although Verilog has features similar to software languages, like C++, Verilog also allows behavioral and structural modeling of hardware.  This course will also introduce tools that assist with automatic synthesis of Verilog models into hardware configurations available in programmed logic devices, like Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). M. Arnold

CSE 398/498-011 Image Analysis and Graphics (3)State-of-the-art techniques for fundamental image analysis tasks: feature extraction, segmentation, registration, tracking, recognition, search (indexing and retrieval). Related computer graphics techniques: modeling (geometry, physically-based, statistical), simulation (data-driven, interactive), animation, 3D image visualization, and rendering.  Prerequisite: CSE 313 or consent of the instructor.   X. Huang

CSE 450-012 Special Topics in Web Mining (3) The accessibility and ubiquity of content on the WWW has changed how we perceive information. In this seminar, we will consider how to extract and discover information within the Web and from how we use the Web. Expected topics will include web search, web usage mining, text mining, information extraction, link analysis, and more.  This course will focus on reading, presenting, and critiquing papers related to mining the world-wide web, and will include a semester-long project. Prerequisite: CSE345/445 or CSE430 or CSE347/447 or CSE326/426 or permission of the instructor.  B. Davison

 CSE 498-12 Wireless Sensor Network Design (3)
This course discusses protocols and architectures for wireless sensor network design. It covers wireless sensor node and network architectures, and communication protocols in data-link, network, and transport layers. The course will discusses focused topics of wireless sensor networks such as time synchronization, localization, topology management, and reprogramming.   L. Cheng

CSE 498-14 Topics in Multi-Processor and Parallel Systems This will be a seminar format course where we will do readings or run software experiments in topics of interest to the class in Multi-Processor and Parallel computing.  Sample topics might be: how to choose the right type of system for your application, how to choose the right technologies for your compute server, survey of performance benchmarks used on MP and parallel systems, performance tuning your application for MP or parallel, and taking advantage of multi-core servers. The format will be student presentations of current or classic research papers, relevant development or programming technologies, and published or student-run experiences with MP and parallel systems.   B. Askins