Information sciences and systems prepares students in communication networks, digital communications, image processing, information theory, system theory, wireless communications, multiresolution signal analysis, and video coding. The program gives students the opportunity to choose courses offered by the computer science and mathematics departments in addition to electrical engineering courses. Research is oriented toward theoretical work in conjunction with the use of computers for system simulation and optimization.
Experimental facilities are available for research in image processing and video coding.
Equipment includes a network of Sun and SGI workstations, a massively parallel SIMD machine, a video digitizer, a Sony VS5000 laser video disk system, a Sony HDM 2830 HDTV monitor, a DVS image sequence storage system, and a Viewgraphics VS5000 frame buffer. Graduate student Aleksandra Smiljanic experimenting with HDTV display facilities, used to evaluate performance of algorithms.