The purpose of this course is to provide students with supplementary material and insights about the software development enterprise. Students meet once a week for a one-hour discussion of software engineering topics whose exploration is intended to provide depth and perspective on the regular material of COMPSCI 320. Topics may be suggested by current events or by problems that may arise in the course of the 320 semester. Students will be required to write a term paper as part of the requirements for this course.

Provides an opportunity for University Honors students enrolled in COMPSCI 335 to take a deeper look at aspects of computer hardware technology and low-level programming, including audio generation and interfacing to various devices. This may involve additional reading and discussion, extra programming projects, conducting experiments.

Representation theory of the symmetric group can be approached using general theory of group representations or with symmetric functions. This area goes back to foundational work of Frobenius, Schur and Yong and a new approach from Okounkov and Vershik. This course will cover representation theory of the symmetric group using these two approaches. The course will also cover the ring of symmetric functions and its relation to the representation theory of the symmetric group and its applications to enumeration.

This course will cover statistical methods now widely used in data analysis, learning and prediction such as regression and classification techniques, feature selection, decision trees, and unsupervised learning methods such as clustering and principal components analysis. The emphasis will be on applying the statistical methods to data sets and understanding the optimization theory that drives these methods.

Lessons are available for private study. Classes are open by audition only.

Lessons are available for private study. Classes are open by audition only.

Lessons are available for private study. Classes are open by audition only.

Lessons are available for private study. Classes are open by audition only.

Lessons are available for private study. Classes are open by audition only.

This discussion course is a comparative introduction to the development of English literature based on an examination of British Isles texts from the five major vernacular literatures that flourished in England before the end of the Hundred Years War: Welsh, Irish, English, Norse, and French. The texts are classics involving the old Celtic gods, heroes, love tales, adventure, and more. They include comedy and tragedy, origin tales, romances, and moral investigations.