Computer Science/Computer Information Science: 5-Year (B.S./M.S.)

This course considers privacy both on and off-line; legal background of intellectual property and e-mail; ethics and codes of ethics; the impact of computers on work and society; and responsibilities and risks of computing, including topics such as accuracy of information, e-waste, and multitasking. This course includes an examination of government policies and regulations related to data security and information assurance.

This course focuses on the implementation of a software project. Students will use collaborative software development methods to complete the implementation of a model that was constructed in a previous course or build a system that implements component services from an existing model.

This course introduces the field of data mining, with specific emphasis on its use for Machine Learning algorithms. Techniques covered may include conceptual clustering, learning decision rules and decision trees, case-based reasoning, Bayesian analysis, genetic algorithms, and neural networks. The course covers data preparation and analysis of results.