Design principles of software for operation of computers. Storage, processor, device, and file management as an integrated system; input/output control. Prerequisites: a grade of C or better in CS 302.

Basic concepts and techniques of artificial intelligence: philosophical considerations, examples, pattern recognition, search strategies, game playing, knowledge representation, logic and resolution, planning, vision, natural language processing, programming in LISP. Prerequisite: a grade of C or better in CS 302.

Special projects under staff supervision on advanced problems in numerical or nonnumerical branches of computer science. May be taken more than once under different topics. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.