These are the planned classes for the semester indicated above. The CSC Department may update this list at any time. The items listed in MyPack's Enrollment Wizard will be the planned final offerings by the department, and may differ from this list.
Description: This is the graduate version of CSC 481 - 001 and is cross-listed with CSC 481 - 001.
An introduction to game engines, the technologies underlying computer and console game development. This course will cover engine components, architectures, and designs. Topics include asset management, resource management, event management, memory management, timelines, multithreading, network architectures, and game object models. A sequence of programming assignments will lead students through the implementation of their own game engine, which they will use to design their own game.
Students cannot receive credit for both the undergraduate and graduate version of the same class.
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Description: This is the graduate version of NLP. This section is cross-listed with CSC 495- 012, NLP.
This course is self-contained, and provides the essential foundation in natural language processing. It identifies the key concepts underlying NLP applications as well as the main NLP paradigms and techniques.
This course combines the core ideas developed in linguistics and in artificial intelligence to show how to understand language. Key topics include regular expressions, unigrams, and n-grams; word embeddings; syntactic (phrase-structure) and dependency parsing; semantic role labeling; language modeling; sentiment and affect analysis; question answering; text-based dialogue; discourse processing; and applications of machine learning to language processing.
The course provides the necessary background in linguistics and artificial intelligence. This course is suitable for high-performing undergraduates who are willing and able to learn abstract concepts, complete programming assignments, and develop a student-selected project.
Students may not receive credit for the undergraduate version and graduate version of the same course topic.
Description: How do you start on the process of PhD research, if you have never done research before? What are the processes you will be expected to follow, and tasks you will be expected to perform, without necessarily being told how to? How do you know when you have become ready to "do research"?? Is P=NP?!
We can't tell you that last one, but we hope to help you with the others! We will go over the life cycle of research projects, the anatomy of research papers, how to read and write reviews, how to develop research ideas, and how to present and communicate research. Descriptive material will be presented by individual instructors and panels, and students will also undertake assignments in small-scale research projects that allow them to follow processes building up standard research skills.