CPS 714 Case Studies in Information Track of Computational Science

This course continues the study of computational science in the information track. The introductory course (CPS 616) has a large number of topic modules describing the basic techniques of many topic areas in networks, multimedia, digital media, user interfaces, high performance client/servers, software for the WWW, collaborative technologies, and geographic information systems.

In contrast, this course examines a few information applications in detail, aiming for a sophistication representing the best current techniques. Three topics would typically be treated in a semester, with students required to carry out a detailed implementation project for one of the topics, working either individually or in teams.

Anticipated topics for the immediate future:

• 1. Geographic information systems: using spatially indexed information in applications.
• 2. Video servers: compression algorithms; performance studies involving parallel computers, networks and i/o bandwidth.
• 3. Parallel Databases: linking parallel databases to the World Wide Web or other applications.
• 4. WebTop Publishing: client/server implementations incorporating document preparation and multimedia access to information.CPS 714 Case Studies in Information Track of Computational Science
• 5. VRML and 3D rendering Techiques
• 6:Data Analysis of large scale systems