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Computer Science, Mathematics, and Science
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

James Clayson
Professor Emeritus
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MBA, University of Chicago.

 

 

Applied Mathematics

Applied Statistics

 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 

 

Cherishing the ideals of the liberal arts, the Department of Computer Science, Mathematics and Science aims for a contextualized and active learning approach. The department emphasizes interdisciplinary education and research, and maintains close ties with other departments within the University as well as with research centers, universities, and industry in Europe and all over the world. The Department of Computer Science, Mathematics and Science aspires to enhance the general education of AUP students by providing them with skills for quantitative and abstract reasoning, comprehension, analysis, and integration of knowledge, and to formulate and efficiently solve problems. We aim at making our students successful lifelong learners independently of their field of study.

 

The department offers a Major in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and our mission is to prepare students who are capable of applying computational and quantitative methodologies to a wide variety of subject areas, who can communicate their knowledge efficiently, and who can work and study in interdisciplinary teams. We aim to enable students to understand the theoretical underpinnings of the field of computing and software development, and to prepare them to work and continue to learn in a field in which radical change is the normal condition.

 

Student Learning Outcomes


Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of essential facts, concepts, principles, and theories relating to computer science and software applications.


Students will be able to use such knowledge and understanding in the modeling and design of computer-based systems in a way that demonstrates comprehension of the trade off involved in design
choices.
 

Students will be able to deploy appropriate theory, practices, and tools for the specification, design, implementation, and evaluation of computer-based systems.


Students will know how to apply the principles of effective information management, information organization, and information-retrieval skills to information of various kinds, including text, images, sound, and video.

 

Students will be able to apply the principles of human-computer
interaction to the evaluation and construction of a wide range of materials including user interfaces, web pages, and multimedia systems.
 

Students will know how to deploy effectively the tools used for the construction and documentation of software, with particular emphasis on understanding the whole process involved in using computers to solve practical problems.
 

Students will learn to make succinct presentations to a range of audiences about technical problems and their solutions.


Students will learn to manage one’s own learning and development, including time management and organizational skills and continue their own professional development.

 
 
 
 

 
Requirements for the Major in  INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
 

 

FirstBridge
8 FirstBridge courses change every year.

 

GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 8 EN 110 College Writing, EN 220 Writing and Criticism
Up to 22 French through FR 235 and FrenchBridge
4 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
4 Social Experience and Organization
4 from either of the above two categories
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
 

CORE
Required

(38 credits)
 

Select one of the following four courses:
CS 221 Social Robotics (may be taken as FirstBridge)
IT 130 Applied Computing (may be taken as FirstBridge)
CS 120 Introduction to Information and Communication Technology
CS 220 Computer Games Design
 

Select one of these two courses:
MA 120 Applied Statistics I
MA 130 Calculus I
 

All of the following courses:
CS/CM 105 Introduction to Web Authoring
CS 140 Introduction to Computer Programming I
CS 150 Introduction to Computer Programming II
CS 271 Languages and Data Structures
CS/CM 348 Human Computer Interaction
CS/IT 351 Web Applications
CS/IT 368 Database Applications
MA 140 Discrete Mathematics
 

ELECTIVES
Select three of the following courses:
(12 credits)
 

CS/IT 315 Computer Architectures
CS 325 Network Architectures
CS 326 Artificial Intelligence
CS 332 Operating Systems
CS 335 Computer and Network Security
CS 353 Software Engineering
CS 357 Wireless Communication
CM 335 Theory and Practice of Digital Interactivity
CM/IT 338 Digital Media I
MA 207 Operations Research: Mathematical Programming
 

Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 Credits

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 

Marie-France Derhy's book Linear Programming, Sensitivity Analysis & Related Topics has been published by Pearson. The book covers all aspects of linear programming from the two-dimensional LPs and their extension to higher dimensional LPs, through duality and sensitivity analysis and finally to the examination of commented software outputs. For more information about the book please click here

[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010]

 
 

Claudia Roda and Georgi Stojanov attended the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems and participated at the 2nd Members Meeting of the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics held in Zurich on January 28-29, 2010. For more information on these events please click here.  Claudia Roda also presented a poster “Modelling responses to the first few hours of exposure to new languages” at the CLIN 2010 conference (Computational Linguistics In The Netherlands) which took place in Utrecht on February 5. The poster was coauthored with Rebekah Rast and Georgi Stojanov. For more info please visit http://www.clin.nl/20/

[AUP - Posted 4 Mar 2010]

 
 

Susan Cure was co-author of the following article which appeared as the cover story of the 50th anniversary edition of the Journal of Molecular Biology: “Tracing ancestors and relatives of Escherichia coli B, and the derivation of B strains REL606 and BL21(DE3)” in 2009 Dec 11:394(4):634-43. Epub 2009 Sep 15 by Daegelen, P., Studier, F.W., Lenski, R.E., Cure, S., and Kim, J.F.  Escherichia coli B is a specific strain of a common intestinal bacterium which was used in seminal experiments which were very important in the development of molecular biology. The authors were able to trace it back to its source in the first decades of the 20th century (in the laboratory of Felix d'Herelle at the Pasteur Institute in 1918).

[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2010]

 
 

An article co-authored by Susan Cure has been published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology in July:  Mégarbané, H., Florence, J., Oliver Sass, J., Schwonbeck, S., Foglio, M., de Cid, R., Cure, S., Saker, S., Mégarbané, A., Fischer, J.:  "An autosomal-recessive form of cutis laxa is due to homozygous elastin mutations, and the phenotype may be modified by a heterozygous fibulin 5 polymorphism" [Invest Dermatol. 2009 Jul;129(7):1650-5. Epub 2009 Feb 5]. Cutis laxa is a skin disease characterized by a premature aging appearance; adolescents look like they are in their 70s.  It is not as severe as progeria.  Professor Cure attended the 8ième Congrès Annuel de la Société Francophone de Thérapie Cellulaire et Génique, in Paris from June 21-23 at the Faculté de Médecine, La Pitié-Salpêtrière.

[AUP - Posted 19 Sep 2009]

 
 
 
 

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