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Course description: This course introduces a variety of topics on implementing secure software using different programming languages. The primary focus is given to design and development techniques used to avoid the most common software errors by using defensive coding techniques, managing resources securely, and creating secure interaction between components.  

Course description: The fundamentals of computer and network security issues are explored. Topics include classical and modern techniques of conventional encryption; algorithms; public-key encryption, and hash functions; network security, with regard to e-mail, IP, and the Web; and system security intruders, viruses, worms, and firewalls. 

Students in this course will choose a topic with my approval that will show in depth knowledge of implementing a specific aspect of the concepts of the course. This is a semester-long project where the students will work in teams of 2 to propose, design, and implement a real-world application of computer security.

Course description: Learning the most important information technologies and programming techniques used in manipulating, storing, visualizing, and processing big data. The emphasis of the course will be on programming tools, machine learning algorithms, and using these to initiate and design highly scalable systems that can accept, store, and process large volumes of data in batch mode and/or real time. 

Course description: Study of the approaches, mechanisms, and tools used to make software systems more secure. Most of the course will be divided into four main modules: 

• architectural approaches to building secure software (e.g., confinement, virtual machines, trusted computing); 

• software analysis (e.g., static analysis and testing, model checking);

• language-based approaches to building secure software (e.g., type systems, proof-carrying code); 

• security for network environment 

CS493 students complete a semester long project where they design and implement a secure benign Web crawler. Projects start with a data collection process involving scripts that crawl the Web to collect and process the data. The crawlers need to follow benign navigational behaviors and should be able to identify and avoid crawler traps. 

Online resources suggested to read:

• List of Resource Links from Open-Source Intelligence Summit 2021

Course description: Design and development of systems software. Most of the course will be divided into: 

• machine and operating system organization,  

• hardware/software interfaces,  

• hardware-specific constraints on software applications,  

• using application programming interfaces and system libraries for the design and development of systems applications. 

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Course description: Examination of history of world wide web, physical infrastructure, and internet protocols. Techniques will be taught for developing web pages using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

CS110 students complete a semester long project where they design a website using HTML and CSS. Projects start with discussion between team members to select a topic for their project to design the website. Web pages need to follow a consistency in topic, design, and layout.