Education -- Computational Science -- Information Track -- Case studies Spring 96

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