Since not all topics are known at press time the listing below should be considered representative only. General Honors courses are open to students in the Benjamin Franklin Scholars program, as well as to other students with permission of the instructor. Experimental Computer Science.
Experimental techniques play an important role in both computer science research and industry.
This is especially true where computer scientists are concerned with improving the performance of computer systems. Performance improvements due to experimental approaches have significantly out-stripped those derived purely from better electronics. Without measuring and comparing different CPU design techniques, compiler optimizations and so on, it is unlikely computer designers would have had such success. The experiments that lead to these successes will be a focus of our course.