1. Master’s Degree in Computer Science

2. 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,,,

3. Intellectual enrichment –New ways to conceptualize problems –New types of applications –New views of computation Foundation for Ph.D. study (if you want)

4. 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

5. MS Program options Research –Independent study –MS thesis (can replace Core exam) Internship

6. What’s happening in CS at NYU? Systems –Parallel computing –Distributed computing –Security –Computer architecture Programming languages –Languages –Compilers –Verification

7. Theory –Computational geometry –Cryptography Graphics –Multimedia –Animation –Motion capture –Solid modeling

8. Artificial Intelligence –Machine Learning –Neural Networks –Natural Language Processing –Computer Vision –Commonsense Reasoning Databases –Design and Tuning –Data Mining

9. Computational Biology Numerical Analysis –Fluid mechanics –Optimization