Seperate Algorithms Class

There is no final word yet, but it looks like beginning Spring 2014, we will have separate Algorithms class for graduate and undergraduate students.

At many places, a computer science program offers two levels of algorithms class for graduate students. The first one is a survey course, often double numbered as an advanced undergraduate course. The second one is often an advanced algorithms class in a specialized topic depends on the specific instructor's expertise, i.e. Concurrent Algorithms, Bioinformatics Algorithms, or Machine Learning Algorithms, etc.

CSIT 430/530 Split

The Graduate Council has approved the Split of CSIT 430/530 to two different courses: CS 430/530 and IT 530. The new configuration will enable CS students to take more programming oriented approach, while allow IT students to focus on policy/regulatory compliance issues. The Council also approved a special topics course CS 599 Computational Data Mining to be offered in the second Summer term.