About this course:

• The graduate programs increase students' breadth of knowledge and develop depth of expertise in a subfield of computer science and engineering. The graduate programs offer opportunities for students to develop teaching skills in support of undergraduate instruction and to enhance research skills in support of the department's active research programs. The goal is to build a foundation for future scientific discovery, engineering innovation, and scholarly and professional achievement.
• Informatics areas of research include: bioinformatics; computer vision; constraint processing; data mining; databases; geographic information systems; image analysis; simulation and modeling; visualization; algorithms; computational complexity; intelligent agents; machine learning; and semantic modeling. Software engineering research areas include: methodology; maintenance; program analysis; programming languages; and software testing and reliability. Systems and networking areas of research include: collaborative technologies; distributed computing and storage; embedded systems; sensors and sensor networks; networking; real-time systems; and security.