CS7NS6 – Distributed Systems

(Semester 2, 5 ECTS) This course takes a critical look at some of the architectural issues involved in, and paradigms available for, the construction of large-scale distributed systems such as the infrastructures supporting Google’s search engine or Amazon’s online sales platform. In particular, the course considers how to develop systems that must make trade-offs between performance, consistency, reliability, and availability.

CS7IS1 – Knowledge and Data Engineering

(Semester 1, 5 ECTS) The module is designed to explore the management, delivery and inter-operability of knowledge, information and data through knowledge and data engineering.

CS7GV1 – Computer Vision

(Semester 1, 5 ECTS) Image processing, feature detection and matching, image registration, recognition
and segmentation – Motion flow and object tracking in video – Mathematics for
computer vision.

CS7NS1 – Scalable Computing

(Semester 1, 5 ECTS) This module aims to provide a theoretical and practical understanding of modern scalable systems and architectures, from billions of highly distributed Internet of Things devices, through to present and future concepts, such as Quantum and Nanotech systems.

CS7GV3 – Real-Time Rendering

(Semester 2, 5 ECTS) This module deals with programming for GPU pipeline architectures e.g. geometry,
rasterisation, texturing, fragment / pixel and vertex shaders.