COURSE

TITLE

INSTRUCTOR

DAYS/TIME

CIS 502/001*

CIS 502/002+

CIS 505/001*

CIS 505/002+

CIS 511/001*

CIS 511/002+

*CIS doctoral students should register for Sections 001 of CIS 502, CIS 505, or CIS 511.

+Students who are NOT CIS doctoral students should register for Sections 002 of CIS 502, CIS 505, or CIS 511.

Zdancewic

Advanced Programming

registration by permission of instructor only

Internet & Web Systems

T 1:30-3 &

4:30-6

CIS 700/001

CIS 700/003

CIS 899/---

LAST DAY TO DROP CLASSES

Last day to add classes.

Very tentative Summer 2008

CIS grad course schedule

CIS 511/summer session I

CIS 700/Web Technologies/summer session II

CIS 564/Game Design & Development

CIS 505: Software Systems

Boon Loo

Course web page at

        www.cis.upenn.edu/~boonloo/cis505-sp08

CIS 563: Physically Based Animation

Alla Safonova

Course Description:
Physics-based animation is becoming increasingly popular for producing extremely realistic special effects in movies and for its use in video games and in surgical simulation systems. This course will introduce students to common physically based modeling techniques for animation of virtual
characters, fluids and gases, rigid and deformable solids, cloth, explosions and other systems. To gain hands-on experience, students will implement basic simulators for several systems. The course is appropriate for both upper level undergraduate and graduate students.

List of Topics:

* Simulating Deformable Objects

o Particle Systems
o Mass spring systems
o Deformable Solids & Fracture
o Cloth
o Explosions and Fire
o Smoke
o Fluids
o Deformable active characters

* Simulating Rigid bodies

o Rigid bodies dynamics
o Collision detection and handling
o Controlling rigid bodies simulation
* Simulating Articulated Bodies
o Simulated characters in games
o Optimization for character animation
o Data driven approaches
o Dynamic Response for Games

Prerequisites:

CIS 460/560
CIS 462/562 or instructor's permission
Students should have a good knowledge of C++, OpenGL and basic familiarity with linear algebra and physics

More info at www.cis.upenn.edu/~alla/courses/spring2008/

CIS610: Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science

Jean Gallier

This Spring 2008, CIS610/Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer  Science) will be devoted to background material on manifolds, Lie groups, Lie algebras and Riemannian geometry, with applications primarily to medical imaging (DTI and shape statistics). However, due to the foundational nature
of the material, people interested in computer vision, robotics or machine learning might be interested.

More info at www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis610/home.html

CIS 630/301 Seminar in Natural Language Processing

Aravind Joshi

We will discuss several aspects of discourse structure-linguistic, formal, and computational.
Part of the seminar will devoted to a review some key papers related to discourse structure. We will then discuss the various linguistic, formal, and computational aspects of the Penn Discourse TreeBank (PDTB)* that has been completed recently. In this corpus, explicit and implicit discourse connectives have been annotated together with their arguments, attributions of the relations denoted by the connectives, attributions of the arguments, together with several features of these attributions, and also the senses of the connectives.

A substantial part of the seminar will be devoted to the exploration of linguistic, formal, and computational aspects of discourse structure based on the PDTB corpus.

The seminar will involve active participation of students in terms of presentations and project work using the PDTB corpus.

A preliminary reading list will be available at the first meeting and the final reading list will be developed very soon after that.

Prerequisites: CIS 530 or equivalent or instructor's permission.

Please contact me at (joshi@seas.upenn.edu) if you have any questions or suggestions.

*This is a corpus of 1 million words (Wall Street Journal) which has been already annotated for syntactic information (Penn TreeBank, PTB) and also for predicate argument information (Propbank).

ESE 535: Electronic Design Automation

André DeHon

Required Prerequisites:
* digital logic (e.g. at least CIS240 or ESE200);
* programming (at least CIS121 or ESE116); will need to be comfortable writing ~1-3K lines of code and working with a large, existing code base
Helpful background:
* algorithms and computational theory (e.g. CIS320)
* experience with modest software projects (e.g. CIS350)
* further experience with digital logic designs (e.g. CIS371)
* exposure to VLSI (e.g. ESE570)

Description: Formulation, automation, and analysis of design mapping problems with emphasis on VLSI and computational realizations. Major themes include: formulating and abstracting problems, figures of merit (e.g. Energy, Delay, Throughput, Area, Mapping Time), representation, traditional decomposition offlow (logic optimization, covering, scheduling, retiming, assignment, partitioning, placement, routing), and techniques for solving problems (e.g. greedy, dynamic programming, search, (integer) linear programming, graph algorithms, randomization, satisfiability). '

Major themes include:
* Mapping problem for computation to substrate
* Formulating and abstracting mapping problems
* Figures of Merit (Energy, Delay, Throughput, Area, Mapping Time, ...)
* Canonical Representations
* Traditional decomposition pieces (e.g. logic optimization, covering, scheduling, retiming, assignment, partitioning, placement, routing)
* Techniques for attacking problems (e.g. Dynamic Programming, Search, LP/ILP formulation, Graph algorithms (network flow, shortest path, ...),
Randomized (incl. SA, Genetic Prog., ), Greedy, Satisfiability)

More information available at
www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs137/2005/fall/Schedule.html
&
www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs137/2006/winter/Schedule.html

CIS 700/Technology & Policy

Matt Blaze & Jonathan Smith

Have you ever wondered why sharing music and video generates such political and legal controversies?  Is information on your PC safe and should law enforcement be able to access information you enter on the Web?  Will new devices allow tracking of your every move and every purchase?

This course is focused on developing an understanding of existing and emerging technologies, along with the political, societal and economic impacts of those technologies.  The technologies are spread across a number of engineering areas and each of them raise issues that are of current concern or are likely to be a future issue.

For more info send email to jms@cis.upenn.edu or blaze@cis.upenn.edu

CIS 700/ Monte Carlo Methods & Nonparametric Bayesian Models

Ben Taskar

More info at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~taskar/courses/cis700-sp08/