Compiler design - front end, middle end and backend involving lexing, parsing, semantic analysis, IR code generation , and back end code generation including register optimization.

Special topics of current interest. Treatment of new developments in various areas of computing.

Introduces machine learning based trading strategies. Topics: Information processing, probabilistic analysis, portfolio construction, generation of market orders, KNN, random forests. Credit not awarded for both CS 4646 and CS 7646.

Structured knowledge representation; knowledge-based methods of reasoning and learning; problem-solving, modeling and design.

Motion techniques for computer animation and interactive games (keyframing, procedural methods, motion capture, and simulation) and principles for storytelling, composition, lighting, and interactivity.

Characteristics of real networks in nature and technology, network measurement methods, network analysis, evolving networks, dynamic network processes, co-evolution of structure and function.

Final project for students completing a master's degree in the College of Computing. Repeatable for multi-semester projects.

Capstone independent study project placing each student in a commercial, academic or government setting where he or she identifies a major cyber security problem, and explores and evaluates a solution that addresses it with realistic assumptions about the organizational context. The chose problem must be approved by course instructor. Cross-listed with ECE and PUBP 6727.