Special Topics in Systems

Topics classes in systems vary from year to year. The following is an example of a class that has been offered in the past or is expected to be offered in the future:

Multimedia on the Web — This course provides fundamental concepts about how to handle multimedia information on the Web through studying basic knowledge and hands-on projects. Topics include audio/video fundamentals, multimedia support in HTML, Web server, streaming multimedia on the Web, and Web security. This course is mainly for undergraduate CS students and digital media studies graduate students. No prerequisite course but understanding HTML is a plus.

Distributed & Networked Computing Systems — Gives an introduction to designing, implementing, and analyzing distributed and networked computing systems. Topics include inter-process communication mechanisms, building systems in client-server computing models, the Internet, a network of workstations, and grid and cluster computing models.