Download Master`s Degree in Computer Science

Master’s Degree in
Computer Science
Why?
• Acquire Credentials
• Learn Skills
– Existing software: Unix, languages, ...
– General software development techniques
– Specialized techniques: Parsers, string
matching, machine learning, optimization, 3-D
rendering, .....
– Analysis: Correctness, running time,
experimentation ,,,
• Intellectual enrichment
– New ways to conceptualize problems
– New types of applications
– New views of computation
• Foundation for Ph.D. study (if you want)
MS program requirements
• 36 credits = 12 courses
• Core exam: Algorithms, Programming
Languages, Compilers, Operating systems
• Applications requirement: 1 course in 2
areas: Artificial Intelligence, Databases,
Graphics, Scientific Computing.
• Project course
MS Program options
• Research
– Independent study
– MS thesis (can replace Core exam)
• Internship
What’s happening in CS at NYU?
• Systems
– Parallel computing
– Distributed computing
– Security
– Computer architecture
• Programming languages
– Languages
– Compilers
– Verification
• Theory
– Computational geometry
– Cryptography
• Graphics
– Multimedia
– Animation
– Motion capture
– Solid modeling
• Artificial Intelligence
– Machine Learning
– Neural Networks
– Natural Language Processing
– Computer Vision
– Commonsense Reasoning
• Databases
– Design and Tuning
– Data Mining
• Computational Biology
• Numerical Analysis
– Fluid mechanics
– Optimization