CSC8260: Economics of Networks and Distributed Systems

(Fall 2006)
This course covers topics at the interface between computer science and economics. The goal is to introduce students to the interplay between computation and incentives in open distributed systems.
 
 

CSC 7430: Electronic Commerce

(Fall 2008)
Design and analysis of Internet commerce sytems; protocols for electronic transactions; online payments and exchanges; e-cash; game theory and mechanism design; online auction design, sponsored search auctions, combinatorial auctions.
 
 

CSC 7220/ECE 7610: Parallel Computing II

(Winter 2004, Winter 2006, Winter 2008)
The first part of this course will cover various aspects of parallel algorithm design and applications. Specific topics include: dense matrix algorithms; sorting algorithms; graph algorithms; search algorithms for discrete optimization problems; dynamic programming; Fast Fourier Transform; complexity of parallel algorithms. The second part will cover various aspects of cluster and grid computing. The emphasis will be on programming, tools and applications.
 
 

CSC 6220/SCP 7300/ECE 5610: Parallel Computing I

(Fall 2003, Fall 2005, Fall 2007)
This course introduces various aspects of parallel programming and applications. Specific topics include: parallel programming models; principles of parallel algorithm design; basic communication operations; analytical modeling of parallel programs; programming using the message-passing paradigm (MPI); programming shared memory systems (threads and OpenMP).
 
 

CSC 4420: Operating Systems

(Spring/Summer 2003, Spring/Summer 2006)
  This course covers both theoretical and practical issues in operating systems. Topics include operating system services; file systems; CPU scheduling; memory management; virtual memory; disk scheduling; deadlocks; concurrent processes.
 
 

CSC 2200: Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis

(Spring/Summer 2003, Fall 2004, Winter 2005, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Winter 2007, Winter 2008, Fall 2008)
  Topics covered: introduction to analysis of algorithms; data structures for trees, sets and graphs; external sorting algorithms; hashing; files; advanced tree structures.
 

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