Master’s Degree inComputer 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