Software Engineering and Network Computing are designed to complement the existing streams in Management and Business Systems and Software and Computing. In addition, the School offers new courses in Internet applications, user interface architectures, foundations of software engineering, multimedia systems, and security and cryptography. The School emphasizes the use of advanced PC systems to allow each student access to a powerful individual work station. Facilities range from networked Pentium workstations to networked Sun workstations. Although many students opt to purchase their own PCs, our policy is to provide computing facilities to all students registered in Computer Science courses.
Students also have use of campus-wide computing equipment.
Research in parallel and distributed systems is supported by six parallel computers with a total of 200 computer nodes and approximately 11 Gbytes of memory. As a student, you will find that these facilities are available and easily accessible. All Bachelor of Computer Science students are eligible for SCS UNIX accounts with full graphical Internet access. These accounts provide mail, news, FTP, Telnet access, hard disk space, and laser printer services. The program focuses on theory, design, and use of computer systems.