Brief description of virtual reality. Emphasis is on the use of technologies and their impact. This course will cover virtual reality in depth as well as sequential databases, their link to the Web, multimedia technologies, multi-threaded operating systems SGML, PERL5 as an object oriented software engineering system. Basic data transport issues including ATM adaption layers, IP and their implementation on the internet. Students will work on a series of small projects and work in multidisciplinary groups.
Lectures cover projects at a simple level accessible to all students.
Software packages and other technology required for projects will be covered also in the lectures. The program is rounded out with a course in databases and one in networking and data transmission. The simulation track studies computational techniques used in the science and engineering disciplines such as computer science, computer engineering, physics, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and chemistry. Typical problem areas include the study of parallel algorithms, simulating particle problems, and simulating field equations. This course covers the modeling of scientific and engineering problems, computational methods, possibly parallel applied to problems.