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Study of representative digital computer organization with emphasis on control unit logic; input/output processors and devices; asynchronous processing; concurrency and parallelism; Memory hierarchies

A brief introduction to database concepts: file systems and databases; and the relational database model; design concepts and implementation: entity relationship (E-R) modelling; normalisation of database tables and structured query language; database design and implementation; Transaction management and concurrency control and distributed database management systems; database privacy; security; failure and recovery; Object-oriented databases; client/server systems; data warehouse; data mining; databases in electronic commerce; web database development and database administration

Designing new computational systems and the software that drives them is both hard and interesting; One important style of computer science research; often called experimental systems research; revolves around such design activities; Research in this style seeks to advance our understanding of; and our ability to create; general computer systems that support the development and use of more domain-specific applications

Basic concepts of image formation and image analysis: imaging geometry; sampling; filtering; edge detection; Hough transforms; region extraction and representation; extracting and modeling three-dimensional objects; Students will be assigned analytical and programming assignments to explore these concepts

Introduction; brief review of analogue and digital signal processing systems; discrete time linear time-invariant signal processing systems; design of finite impulse response digital filters; introduction to z-transforms and infinite impulse response type discrete time filters; design of infinite impulse response type digital filters using analogue filter approximations; digital processing of analogue signals and other data; introduction to the discrete Fourier transform

Introduction; the sociology and psychology of electronic commerce: building; recognising; managing and making use of online communities in web-based environments; theories of online presence and cooperation; a guide to e-commerce in general: how to differentiate e-commerce today from e-commerce yesterday; current problems of e-commerce and interesting solutions and approaches to those problems; a guide to knowledge commerce: understanding knowledge as a commodity and as a process; and representing it in web-based environments; web architecture: structural design of e-commerce systems; client-server architecture; 2-; 3-; n-tier design; server farms; scalability; integration of legacy systems; Java beans; Enterprise Java beans and java server pages; particular problems posed by 24/7 operation and an open user community; data interchange: exchanging data over the internet; XML; style sheets; document type definition; metadata and document discovery; interchange of processes using WSDL and SOAP as examples; usability: user-interfaces design for websites; use of human computer interaction methodologies in evaluating user interfaces; electronic payments: technologies that support the processing of electronic payments; characteristics and properties of electronic payment systems; mass personalisation and the virtual customer: automation of the customer relationship; use of data to customise the web experience; cookies and their risks; rule-based filtering; implicit profiling; collaborative filtering

Review of Artificial Intelligence and its place in experts systems; Introduction to expert systems and expert support system; Characteristics of experts systems; Knowledge-based systems; Types of expert systems

Positive and negative effects of the computers and ICT on human beings and societies; Computing as a profession; organization using computers; sociological impacts of computers; individuals and computers; computer as an audit tool; computers in banking; computer based information systems and telecommunications; computers in consultancy services; design and construction; education; government insurance; stock-brokerage; legal and medical professions

Programme Core Courses

Introduction to Internet; standards and specifications; survey of contemporary Internet technologies; Current Internet tools; Designing and publishing a web server; WWW programming Markup languages; Using alternative protocols in WWW; Adding multimedia features to WWW; Server side programming; client programming and database programming for the web; Security and Privacy