The following is a selection of special topics courses and advanced courses to be be offered by the UMBC CSEE Department for the Spring 2009 semester. Some are cross listed with other departments and programs and some are offered for both undergraduate and graduate credit. Undergraduates can always enroll in a graduate course with the permission of the instructor. For more information on the content, scope or expected workload for any of these courses, please contact the instructor.
IMPORTANT: Permission required; corequisites: CMSC 421 and CMSC
481.
Description: This course will cover the core aspects of the incident response, the legal issues of computer forensics, file system analysis, network-based artifact examination and malware examinations. Objective: To provide the student with the essential knowledge required to complete a computer forensic exam or incident report in the field.
Topics:
Service Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME). Web
Services. Quality of Service. Service Level Agreement. Service
Oriented Architecture. Enterprise Application
Integration. XML. XML Schema. SOAP. WSDL. UDDI. Web Services
Discovery. The Service Economy. Measurement of
Services. Productivity. The IT Architect.
UMBC's CS program is planning a major redesign of CMSC 201, the introductory programming course for majors. In this special topics course, students will have the opportunity to learn first-hand what is involved in designing and teaching a new class. As a group, we will review textbooks, survey the research literature on teaching programming courses, design a syllabus, learn the Python programming language, develop programming projects, and write exam questions. The course will also include "mock teaching sections," in which each student will have the opportunity to present a lecture segment to the rest of the class. We will discuss effective teaching strategies and related issues, such as TA management, handling "problem students," and methods for minimizing and responding to academic dishonesty. The course will be team-taught by Tim Finin and Marie desJardins, with guest lectures and commentary by other CS instructors.
This special topics course is available to advanced undergraduates and
graduate students. It will introduce the notion of the Semantic
Web, provide an overview of the underlying theory and
technology, cover existing tools and practices, and highlight
current and potential applications. The course will be
approximately half lecture and half seminar. Students will be
expected to read, discuss and present current research
papers. In the first half of the course there will be a series
of homework assignments designed to get students familiar with
the technology. In the second half, students will work on
individual or group projects.