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Fall 2000 |
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| INFSCI 2000 | Introduction to Information Science | Overview of the history, philosophical bases, academic roots, conceptual structure, and methodology of information science. Information systems in a variety of contexts. Students have access to the key technologies available to information professionals. |
| INFSCI 2300 | Human Information Processing | Introduction to research and theory in human cognition, including perception, attention, pattern recognition, memory, representation of knowledge, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making, with implications for user interface design |
| INFSCI 2610 | Data Structure | Theory and application of data structures. Data and file structures and their appropriateness to various applications. |
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Spring 2001 |
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INFSCI 2140 |
Information Storage and Retrieval | Introduction to storage and retrieval of textual, pictorial, graphic, and voice data. The focus is on effectively interpreting imprecise queries and providing a high quality response to them from a database of incompletely described "documents." |
| TELCOM 2000 | Introduction to Telecommunications | Graduate level introduction to voice and data communications for non-telecommunications majors. Covers OSI stack with an emphasis on the lower layers. Overview of the public switched telephone network. |
| TELCOM 2110 | Network Design | Methods of analyzing applications for networking and of analyzing existing networks for evaluation or redesign. Methods for designing and evaluating an information network: queuing, routing, security, reliability, availability, flexibility, privacy, transmission services, concentration, multiplexing, recovery, journaling, and statistics. |
| BMIS 2678 | Electronic Commerce | Several objectives of the course: to establish understanding of a broad range of Internet tools, to produce skills in developing basic Internet applications, to create appreciation of the Internet as the future "Information Superhighway", and to generate understanding of how the information highway can be used for commerce. |
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Summer 2001 |
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| INFSCI 2710 | Database Management | Purpose and development of database systems and data modeling, including entity-relationship model, relational data model, normalization, structured query language (SQL), transaction management, object-oriented databases, and basics of physical database design and query evaluation. |
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Fall 2001 |
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| INFSCI 2511 | Information Systems Analysis, Design and Evaluation | Problem identification and definition methods, data collection and measurement methods, feasibility study methods, work measurement techniques, task analysis, simulation studies, impact analysis, evaluation methods, forms and display design, proposal writing, documentation and programming standards, design strategies, documentation, and evaluation. |
| INFSCI 2711 | Database Analysis and Design | A selection of advanced topics related to database design, such as, advanced conceptual design in the Entity-Relationship-Model, design techniques for larger schemas, introduction to the Unified Modelling Language (UML), demonstration of a CASE tool for database design, physical design and performance tuning, and data warehousing. |
| INFSCI 2770 | Document Processing | Non-numerical applications of computers. Text and document processing techniques and technologies including scanning, laser printing, text analysis, text compression, compound documents, document databases, and hypertext. |
| BMIS 2053 | Human-Computer Interaction | The environments that can or should be provided for interactive use of computers. Necessary hardware, software, and behavioral components of an interactive system; data structure considerations for various types of interactive applications; operating system fundamentals, functions, and characteristics. Emphasis on interactive operating systems, human/machine dialogues, interactive graphics, programming languages, and application(s) design. |