Computer Science - B.S.E.

Program Offerings

Offering type
B.S.E.

With computation and computer science now permeating all corners of society and the economy, a computer science education has become a good launching pad for almost any career. Core concepts and skills emphasized in the computer science curriculum include theoretical and quantitative analysis of computation; design/engineering principles of advanced computer systems; and foundations and methods of AI and machine learning. The curriculum provides additional flexibility to explore subdisciplines of computer science (programming languages, formal methods, software engineering, computer graphics, information security), or to branch out into cross-disciplinary investigations (neuroscience and cognitive science, computational biology, information policy, robotics, data science, etc.). Most computer science majors enjoy programming. Quite a few start with zero or minimal background and can enhance their skills while progressing through the curriculum.

The plan below applies to the Class of 2025 and beyond; the requirements for the Class of 2024 and earlier are available from the Computer Science Department website and archived versions of the Undergraduate Announcement.

 

Goals for Student Learning

The key learning goals for a major in computer science are as follows:

  • Students will be able to understand, modify, debug, refactor and analyze programs in a variety of different programming languages; 
  • Students will be able to learn new programming languages and computational paradigms they encounter in the future;
  • Students will be able to read and comprehend technical literature in computer science;
  • Students will be able to plan and complete a one- or two-term project in an area of computer science of their choice;
  • Students will be able to identify, isolate and solve important technical subproblems that lead to a solution to a more significant problem;
  • Students will be able to present technical ideas in computer science clearly, both orally and in written form;
  • Students will be able to identify and assess related work in their area of study;
  • Students will demonstrate an ability to work independently in accomplishing all of the above goals.

Prerequisites

All B.S.E. students must meet the School of Engineering and Applied Science general requirements. Students must complete COS 126 (or ISC 231–234 or ECE 115), 217 and 226. Students should plan to take COS 126 in the first year. COS 217 and COS 226 should be completed before junior year. One or both of these are prerequisites for all later computer science courses.

Admission to the Program

Information for First-Year Students

Students with a general interest in the sciences or engineering are encouraged to take COS 126 in the first year. This provides useful background for applications work in any science or engineering major and preserves the option of later electing a computer science major.

Program of Study

Majors must take at least eight departmental courses on a graded basis. These fall into three categories: foundation, core courses, and electives. 

 

Foundation

Students must take COS 240 (Reasoning and Computation), to be completed before the end of junior year.

Core Courses

Students must take a total of four courses, one from each of the four categories listed below:

  1. Computer Systems

  • COS 316 (Principles of Computer System Design) or COS 375 (Computer Architecture  and Organization)
Alternatives
  • COS 318 (Operating Systems)
  • COS 418 (Distributed Systems)
  • COS 461 (Computer Networks)

 

  1.  Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

  • COS 324 (Introduction to Machine Learning)
Alternatives
  • COS 424 (Fundamentals of Machine Learning)
  • COS 429 (Computer Vision)
  • COS 484 (Natural Language Processing)

 

  1.  Theoretical Computer Science
  • COS 423 (Theory of Algorithms)
  • COS 433 (Cryptography)
  • COS 445 (Networks, Economics, and Computing)
  • COS 487 (Theory of Computation)

 

  1. Breadth

This category contains courses that either explore another subdiscipline beyond Systems/Theory/AIML or provide experience with real-world applications. Students must complete at least one.  

  • COS 326 (Functional Programming)
  • COS 333 (Advanced Programming Techniques)
  • COS 343 (Algorithms for Computational Biology)
  • COS 426 (Computer Graphics)
  • COS 432 (Information Security)
  • COS 436 (Human-Computer Interaction)
  • COS 448 (Innovating across Technology, Business, and Markets)

 

Electives 

Students must take three COS courses numbered 300 or higher. Alternatively, up to two electives may be chosen from a list of approved courses from other departments (see the department website for an up-to-date list).   

Students should consult with a computer science academic adviser on their course selections once they decide to become computer science majors. Academic advisers are listed on the Department of Computer Science webpage.

Integrated Science Sequence

An alternative path into the department is through the integrated science curriculum. Integrated Science (ISC/CHM/COS/MOL/PHY 231/232 fall and 233/234 spring) is a double course, meaning that it counts as two courses each semester (out of the four you would normally take). It results in formal credit for introductory chemistry (two semesters), physics (two semesters), computer science (one semester) and molecular biology (one semester). A nontraditional laboratory component is also part of the course, which includes experiments from all these sciences. For full course descriptions and more information, see the Integrated Science website.

Independent Work

All B.S.E. majors engage in independent work supervised by a member of the department. Independent work projects involve the study and solution of specific problems in or related to computer science. These may arise from varied motivations, such as research questions intrinsic to the field; entrepreneurial activities; software design; policy or ethics issues in the tech world; applications of computer science to other disciplines or to societal problems. Many students come up with their own IW topics; others may formulate them with help from faculty advisers.

B.S.E. students must elect one semester of independent work by enrolling in 397 (junior fall), 398 (junior spring), 497 (senior fall), or 498 (senior spring). One additional semester of independent work may be counted as one of the departmental courses. B.S.E. students are also welcome, but not required, to complete a senior thesis.

The department also offers a curriculum leading to an A.B. degree. The primary differences between the A.B. and B.S.E. programs are in the general requirements for the degree programs.

Study Abroad

Become a citizen of the world! Computer Science majors are allowed and encouraged to study abroad for a semester or year. The Office of International Programs (OIP) manages study abroad programs. See the Study Abroad Program page for specific information.

Additional Information

Interdisciplinary Studies

The pervasive nature of modern computing has introduced many interactions between computer science and other disciplines. Basic preparation in computer science is valuable for a broad variety of careers because of the computer's central role in society. Professionals who understand computers are far more effective in their work. In the past, a large amount of technical preparation was required before interesting applications could be considered; today's undergraduates are able to use computers to study important problems in other disciplines.

Some possible areas for interdisciplinary study are mathematics, music, art, economics, molecular biology, neurosciences and linguistics, and any of the departments and programs within the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Many Princeton undergraduates view their four years at Princeton as an opportunity to gain an education before immersing themselves in rigorous training for careers in law, business or medicine. Computer science students are no exception. Through the choice of electives, students may create a specialized interdisciplinary program or a broad program with computer science as the core of preprofessional study. The former requires consultation with advisers in the related disciplines to determine what constitutes a reasonable cognate specialization, and the latter is constrained by the requirement of a coherent program of study in the major.

 

 

Faculty

  • Chair

    • Szymon M. Rusinkiewicz
  • Associate Chair

    • Ryan P. Adams
    • Wyatt A. Lloyd
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies

    • Andrew W. Appel (co-director) (spring)
    • Brian W. Kernighan (co-director)
    • David P. Walker (co-director) (fall)
    • Kevin Wayne (co-director)
  • Director of Graduate Studies

    • Michael J. Freedman (co-director)
    • Elad Hazan (co-director)
  • Professor

    • Ryan P. Adams
    • Andrew W. Appel
    • Sanjeev Arora
    • David I. August
    • Mark Braverman
    • Bernard Chazelle
    • Zeev Dvir
    • Adam Finkelstein
    • Michael J. Freedman
    • Tom Griffiths
    • Aarti Gupta
    • Elad Hazan
    • Kyle A. Jamieson
    • Brian W. Kernighan
    • Kai Li
    • Margaret R. Martonosi
    • Radhika Nagpal
    • Arvind Narayanan
    • Ben Raphael
    • Ran Raz
    • Szymon M. Rusinkiewicz
    • H. Sebastian Seung
    • Jaswinder P. Singh
    • Mona Singh
    • Robert E. Tarjan
    • Olga G. Troyanskaya
    • David P. Walker
  • Associate Professor

    • Jia Deng
    • Zachary Kincaid
    • Gillat Kol
    • Wyatt A. Lloyd
    • Olga Russakovsky
    • Matt Weinberg
  • Assistant Professor

    • Parastoo Abtahi
    • Danqi Chen
    • Adji Bousso Dieng
    • Benjamin Eysenbach
    • Felix Heide
    • Aleksandra Korolova
    • Amit A. Levy
    • Alex Lombardi
    • Jonathan Mayer
    • Andrés Monroy-Hernández
    • Karthik Narasimhan
    • Ravi A. Netravali
    • Yuri Pritykin
    • Huacheng Yu
    • Ellen Zhong
  • Associated Faculty

    • Amir Ali Ahmadi, Oper Res and Financial Eng
    • Christine Allen-Blanchette, Mechanical & Aerospace Eng
    • Maria Apostolaki, Electrical Engineering
    • Jianqing Fan, Oper Res and Financial Eng
    • Jaime Fernandez Fisac, Electrical Engineering
    • Yasaman Ghasempour, Electrical Engineering
    • Chi Jin, Electrical Engineering
    • Jason D. Lee, Electrical Engineering
    • Anirudha Majumdar, Mechanical & Aerospace Eng
    • Prateek Mittal, Electrical Engineering
    • Paul Seymour, Mathematics
    • John D. Storey, Integrative Genomics
    • Daniel L. Trueman, Music
    • Robert J. Vanderbei, Oper Res and Financial Eng
    • Janet A. Vertesi, Sociology
    • Pramod Viswanath, Electrical Engineering
    • Mengdi Wang, Electrical Engineering
    • David Wentzlaff, Electrical Engineering
  • University Lecturer

    • Kevin Wayne
  • Senior Lecturer

    • Robert M. Dondero
    • Alan Kaplan
    • Xiaoyan Li
    • Christopher M. Moretti
  • Lecturer

    • Sebastian Caldas
    • Marcel Dall'Agnol
    • Robert S. Fish
    • Ruth C. Fong
    • Donna S. Gabai
    • Mihir E. Kshirsagar
    • Dan Leyzberg
    • Pedro Paredes
    • Iasonas Petras
    • Vikram V. Ramaswamy
  • Visiting Associate Professor

    • Rotem Oshman
  • Visiting Lecturer

    • Edo Liberty

For a full list of faculty members and fellows please visit the department or program website.

Courses

COS 109 - Computers in Our World (also EGR 109) Fall QCR

Computers are all around us. How does this affect the world we live in? This course is a broad introduction to computing technology for humanities and social science students. Topics will be drawn from current issues and events, and will include discussion of how computers work, what programming is and why it is hard, how the Internet and the Web work, security and privacy. Two 90-minute lectures. Self-scheduled computer laboratory. B. Kernighan

COS 126 - Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach (also EGR 126) Fall/Spring QCR

An introduction to computer science in the context of scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. The course will teach basic principles and practical issues, and will prepare students to use computers effectively for applications in computer science, physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and other disciplines. Topics include: hardware and software systems; programming in Java; algorithms and data structures; fundamental principles of computation; and scientific computing, including simulation, optimization, and data analysis. No prior programming experience required. Video lectures, one class, two preceptorials. A. Kaplan, K. Wayne

COS 217 - Introduction to Programming Systems Fall/Spring QCR

An introduction to computer organization and system software. The former includes topics such as processor and memory organization, input/output devices, and interrupt structures. The latter includes assemblers, loaders, libraries, and compilers. Programming assignments are implemented in assembly language and C using the UNIX operating system. Three lectures. Prerequisite: 126 or instructor's permission. C. Moretti, S. Rusinkiewicz

COS 226 - Algorithms and Data Structures Fall/Spring QCR

This course surveys the most important algorithms and data structures in use on computers today. Particular emphasis is given to algorithms for sorting, searching, and string processing. Fundamental algorithms in a number of other areas are covered as well, including geometric algorithms, graph algorithms, and some numerical algorithms. The course will concentrate on developing implementations, understanding their performance characteristics, and estimating their potential effectiveness in applications. Two online lectures, two class meetings, one precept. G. Kol, K. Wayne

COS 240 - Reasoning About Computation Fall/Spring QCR

An introduction to mathematical topics relevant to computer science. Combinatorics, probability and graph theory will be covered in the context of computer science applications. The course will present a computer science approach to thinking and modeling. Students will be introduced to fundamental concepts in theoretical computer science, such as NP-completeness and cryptography that arise from the world view of efficient computation. R. Raz, M. Braverman

COS 302 - Mathematics for Numerical Computing and Machine Learning (also ECE 305/SML 305) Fall

This course provides a comprehensive and practical background for students interested in continuous mathematics for computer science. The goal is to prepare students for higher-level subjects in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, graphics, and other topics that require numerical computation. This course is intended students who wish to pursue these more advanced topics, but who have not taken (or do not feel comfortable) with university-level multivariable calculus (e.g., MAT 201/203) and probability (e.g., ORF 245 or ORF 309). R. Adams

COS 306 - Contemporary Logic Design (also ECE 206) Fall SEL

COS 314 - Computer and Electronic Music through Programming, Performance, and Composition (also MUS 314) QCR

COS 316 - Principles of Computer System Design Fall

This course teaches students the design, implementation, and evaluation of computer systems, including operating systems, networking, and distributed systems.The course will teach students to evaluate the performance and study the design choices of existing systems. Students will also learn general systems concepts that support design goals of modularity, performance, and security. Students will apply materials learned in lectures and readings to design and build new systems components. A. Levy, R. Netravali

COS 318 - Operating Systems Not offered this year

A study of the design and analysis of operating systems. Topics include: processes, mutual exclusion, synchronization, semaphores, monitors, deadlock prevention and detection, memory management, virtual memory, processor scheduling, disk management, file systems, security, protection, distributed systems. Two 90-minute lectures. Prerequisites: 217 and 226 or instructor's permission. Staff

COS 320 - Compiling Techniques Spring

The principal algorithms and concepts associated with translator systems. Topics include lexical analysis, syntactic analysis, parsing techniques, symbol table management, code generation and optimization, run time system design, implementation issues related to programming language design. Course will include a large-scale programming project utilizing the above topics. Three lectures. Prerequisites: 217 and 226 or instructor's permission. Z. Kincaid

COS 323 - Computing and Optimization for the Physical and Social Sciences (also ORF 363) Fall/Spring QCR

COS 324 - Introduction to Machine Learning Fall/Spring

This course is a broad introduction to different machine learning paradigms and algorithms and provides a foundation for further study or independent work in machine learning and data science. Topics include linear models for classification and regression, support vector machines, clustering, dimensionality reduction, deep neural networks, Markov decision processes, planning, and reinforcement learning. The goals of this course are three-fold: to understand the landscape of machine learning, how to compute the math behind techniques, and how to use Python and relevant libraries to implement and use various methods. J. Deng, R. Fong, S. Arora

COS 326 - Functional Programming Fall

An introduction to the principles of typed functional programming. Programming recursive functions over structured data types and informal reasoning by induction about the correctness of those functions. Functional algorithms and data structures. Principles of modular programming, type abstraction, representation invariants and representation independence. Parallel functional programming, algorithms and applications. A. Appel

COS 333 - Advanced Programming Techniques Fall/Spring

The practice of programming. Emphasis is on the development of real programs, writing code but also assessing tradeoffs, choosing among design alternatives, debugging and testing, and improving performance. Issues include compatibility, robustness, and reliability, while meeting specifications. Students will have the opportunity to develop skills in these areas by working on their own code and in group projects. Two 90-minute lectures. Prerequisites: 217 and 226 (as corequisite). R. Dondero, D. Walker

COS 342 - Introduction to Graph Theory (also MAT 375) Spring QCR

COS 343 - Algorithms for Computational Biology Spring

This course introduces algorithms for analyzing DNA, RNA, and protein, the three fundamental molecules in the cell. Students will learn algorithms on strings, trees, and graphs and their applications in: sequence comparison and alignment; molecular evolution and comparative genomics; DNA sequencing and assembly; recognition of genes and regulatory elements; and RNA structure and protein interaction networks. Students will also implement algorithms and apply them to biological data. B. Raphael

COS 346 - Introduction to Robotics (also ECE 345/MAE 345) Fall

COS 351 - Information Technology and Public Policy (also SOC 353/SPI 351) Not offered this year SA

This course surveys recurring, high-profile issues in technology policy and law. Each session will explore a challenging topic, including consumer privacy, data security, electronic surveillance, net neutrality, online speech, algorithmic fairness, cryptocurrencies, election security, and offensive operations. The seminar will also cover foundational technical concepts that affect policy and law, including internet architecture, cryptography, systems security, privacy science, and artificial intelligence. Materials and discussion will draw extensively from current events and primary sources. Staff

COS 375 - Computer Architecture and Organization (also ECE 375) Fall SEN

An introduction to computer architecture and organization. Instruction set design; basic processor implementation techniques; performance measurement; caches and virtual memory; pipelined processor design; design trade-offs among cost, performance, and complexity. Two 90-minute classes, one self-scheduled hardware laboratory. Prerequisites: COS 217. D. August

COS 381 - Networks: Friends, Money and Bytes (also ECE 381) Not offered this year

COS 396 - Introduction to Quantum Computing (also ECE 396) Fall

COS 397 - Junior Independent Work (B.S.E. candidates only) Fall

Offered in the fall, juniors are provided with an opportunity to concentrate on a "state-of-the-art" project in computer science. Topics may be selected from suggestions by faculty members or proposed by the student. B.S.E. candidates only. R. Fish, Z. Kincaid

COS 398 - Junior Independent Work (B.S.E. candidates only) Spring

Offered in the spring, juniors are provided with an opportunity to concentrate on a "state-of-the-art" project in computer science. Topics may be selected from suggestions by faculty members or proposed by the student. B.S.E. candidates only. R. Fish, Z. Kincaid

COS 418 - Distributed Systems Spring

This course covers the design and implementation of distributed systems. Students will gain an understanding of the principles and techniques behind the design of modern, reliable, and high-performance distributed systems. Topics include server design, network programming, naming, concurrency and locking, consistency models and techniques, security, and fault tolerance. Modern techniques and systems employed at some of the largest Internet sites (e.g., Google, Facebook, Amazon) will also be covered. Through programming assignments, students will gain practical experience designing, implementing, and debugging real distributed systems. M. Freedman

COS 423 - Theory of Algorithms Spring

Design and analysis of efficient data structures and algorithms. General techniques for building and analyzing algorithms. Introduction to NP-completeness. Two 90-minute lectures. Prerequisites: 226 and 240 or instructor's permission. R. Tarjan

COS 424 - Fundamentals of Machine Learning (also SML 302) Not offered this year

Computers have made it possible to collect vast amounts of data from a wide variety of sources. It is not always clear, however, how to use the data, and how to extract useful information from them. This problem is faced in a tremendous range of social, economic and scientific applications. The focus will be on some of the most useful approaches to the problem of analyzing large complex data sets, exploring both theoretical foundations and practical applications. Students will gain experience analyzing several types of data, including text, images, and biological data. Two 90-minute lectures. Prereq: MAT 202 and COS 126 or equivalent. Staff

COS 426 - Computer Graphics Fall

The principles underlying the generation and display of graphical pictures by computer. Hardware and software systems for graphics. Topics include: hidden surface and hidden line elimination, line drawing, shading, half-toning, user interfaces for graphical input, and graphic system organization. Two 90-minute lectures. Prerequisites: 217 and 226. A. Finkelstein

COS 429 - Computer Vision Spring

An introduction to the concepts of 2D and 3D computer vision. Topics include low-level image processing methods such as filtering and edge detection; segmentation and clustering; optical flow and tracking; shape reconstruction from stereo, motion, texture, and shading. Throughout the course, there will also be examination of aspects of human vision and perception that guide and inspire computer vision techniques. Prerequisites: 217 and 226. Two 90-minute lectures. F. Heide, V. Ramaswamy

COS 432 - Information Security (also ECE 432) Spring

Security issues in computing, communications, and electronic commerce. Goals and vulnerabilities; legal and ethical issues; basic cryptology; private and authenticated communication; electronic commerce; software security; viruses and other malicious code; operating system protection; trusted systems design; network security; firewalls; policy, administration and procedures; auditing; physical security; disaster recovery; reliability; content protection; privacy. Prerequisites: 217 and 226. Two 90-minute lectures. M. Apostolaki

COS 433 - Cryptography (also MAT 473) Not offered this year

An introduction to modern cryptography with an emphasis on fundamental ideas. The course will survey both the basic information and complexity-theoretic concepts as well as their (often surprising and counter-intuitive) applications. Among the topics covered will be private key and public key encryption schemes, digital signatures, pseudorandom generators and functions, chosen ciphertext security; and time permitting, some advanced topics such as zero knowledge proofs, secret sharing, private information retrieval, and quantum cryptography. Prerequisites: 226 or permission of instructor. Two 90-minute lectures. Staff

COS 436 - Human-Computer Interaction Fall

How do we create interactive technology centered around people and society at large? This course is a survey of the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Lectures, readings, and precept discussions cover foundational theories as well as topics in HCI. We focus on two core areas of interactive computing (e.g., input/output, ubiquitous computing) and social computing (e.g., collaboration, social media), and span a breadth of domains, such as AI+HCI, AR/VR, design tools, and accessibility. Put your learnings into practice, with a semester-long group project, by either studying how people think or by designing a novel technological system. A. Monroy-Hernández, P. Abtahi

COS 445 - Economics and Computing Spring

Computation and other aspects of our lives are becoming increasingly intertwined. In this course we will study a variety of topics on the cusp between economics and computation. Topics to be covered include: games on networks, auctions, mechanism and market design, reputation, computational social choice. The aim of the course is two-fold: (1) to understand the game-theoretic issues behind systems involving computation such as online networks, and (2) to learn how algorithms and algorithmic thinking can help with designing better decision and allocation mechanisms in the offline world. M. Weinberg, P. Paredes

COS 448 - Innovating Across Technology, Business, and Marketplaces (also EGR 448) Fall

This course introduces computer science and technology-oriented students to issues tackled by Chief Technology Officers: the technical visionaries and managers innovating at the boundaries of technology and business. These individuals are partners to the business leaders of the organization, not merely implementers of business goals. The course covers companies from ideation and early-stage startup, to growth-stage startup, to mature company, covering the most relevant topics at each stage, including ideation, financing, product-market fit, go-to-market approaches, strategy, execution, and management. Exciting industry leaders guest lecture. J. Singh, R. Fish

COS 451 - Computational Geometry Not offered this year

Introduction to basic concepts of geometric computing, illustrating the importance of this new field for computer graphics, solid modelling, robotics, databases, pattern recognition, and statistical analysis. Algorithms for geometric problems. Fundamental techniques, for example, convex hulls, Voronoi diagrams, intersection problems, multidimensional searching. Two 90-minute lectures. Prerequisites: 226 and 240 or 341, or equivalent. Staff

COS 455 - Introduction to Genomics and Computational Molecular Biology (also MOL 455/QCB 455) Fall QCR

COS 461 - Computer Networks Not offered this year

This course studies computer networks and the services built on top of them. Topics include packet-switch and multi-access networks, routing and flow control, congestion control and quality-of-service, Internet protocols (IP, TCP, BGP), the client-server model and RPC, elements of distributed systems (naming, security, caching) and the design of network services (multimedia, peer-to-peer networks, file and Web servers, content distribution networks). Two lectures, one preceptorial. Prerequisite: 217. Staff

COS 462 - Design of Very Large-Scale Integrated (VLSI) Systems (also ECE 462) Spring

COS 475 - Computer Architecture (also ECE 475) Spring

COS 484 - Natural Language Processing Fall

Recent advances have ushered in exciting developments in natural language processing (NLP), resulting in systems that can translate text, answer questions and even hold spoken conversations with us. This course will introduce students to the basics of NLP, covering standard frameworks for dealing with natural language as well as algorithms and techniques to solve various NLP problems, including recent deep learning approaches. Topics covered include language modeling, rep. learning, text classification, sequence tagging, syntactic parsing, and machine translation. The course will have programming assignments, a mid-term and a final project. K. Narasimhan, D. Chen

COS 487 - Theory of Computation (also MAT 407) Fall

Studies the limits of computation by identifying tasks that are either inherently impossible to compute, or impossible to compute within the resources available. Introduces students to computability and decidability, Godel's incompleteness theorem, computational complexity, NP-completeness, and other notions of intractability. This course also surveys the status of the P versus NP question. Additional topics may include: interactive proofs, hardness of computing approximate solutions, cryptography, and quantum computation. Two lectures, one precept. Prerequisite: 240 or 341, or instructor's permission. G. Kol

COS 488 - Introduction to Analytic Combinatorics (also MAT 474) Not offered this year

Analytic Combinatorics aims to enable precise quantitative predictions of the properties of large combinatorial structures. The theory has emerged over recent decades as essential both for the scientific analysis of algorithms in computer science and for the study of scientific models in many other disciplines. This course combines motivation for the study of the field with an introduction to underlying techniques, by covering as applications the analysis of numerous fundamental algorithms from computer science. The second half of the course introduces Analytic Combinatorics, starting from basic principles. Staff

COS 495 - Special Topics in Computer Science Not offered this year

These courses cover one or more advanced topics in computer science. The courses are offered only when there is an opportunity to present material not included in the established curriculum; the subjects vary from term to term. Three classes. Staff

COS 496 - Special Topics in Computer Science Not offered this year

These courses cover one or more advanced topics in computer science. The courses are offered only when there is an opportunity to present material not included in the established curriculum; the subjects vary from term to term. Three classes. Staff

COS 497 - Senior Independent Work (B.S.E. candidates only) Fall

Offered in the fall, seniors are provided with an opportunity to concentrate on a "state-of-the-art" project in computer science. Topics may be selected from suggestions by faculty members or proposed by the student. B.S.E. candidates only. R. Fish, Z. Kincaid

COS 498 - Senior Independent Work (B.S.E. candidates only) Spring

Offered in the spring, seniors are provided with an opportunity to concentrate on a "state-of-the-art" project in computer science. Topics may be selected from suggestions by faculty members or proposed by the student. B.S.E. candidates only. R. Fish, Z. Kincaid