No credit if CSE 410 or EE 474 has been taken. Introduction to basic principles of computer generated animation. Focus on the modeling and lighting of animated characters. Students from Art, CSE, and Music team up on projects to be built on commercially-available modeling and lighting packages. Transmission media, encoding systems, error detection, multiplexing, switching.
Data link, multiple access channel protocols.
Methods for network routing, congestion control, flow control. Network security, privacy. Applications including electronic mail, virtual terminals, distributed operating systems. Joint with EE 461. Hardware description languages, combinational and sequential logic synthesis and optimization methods, partitioning, mapping to regular structures.