1. Computer Science and Engineering at The University of North Texas

2. Why Study CSE? Some of the Highest Paid Degrees #1 Major for Average Starting Salary

3. Over 30 Years of History Then… –Founded with 2 Faculty –Fall of 1971 Now… –Accredited program since 1986 –19 full time faculty –1162 Total Students

4. Computer Science and Computer Engineering Computer Engineering degree offered beginning in Fall of 2003 Computer Engineering Tracks –Architecture –Networking –VLSI –Real-Time and Embedded Systems

5. Computer Science or Computer Engineering More hardware oriented More physics and math courses –Cell phones and PDAs –Embedded Systems –Robotics –Biomedical Devices Not sure? Coursework in both degrees is very similar the first year, so take some time to explore and decide. More software oriented More programming courses –Game Programming –Information Security –Database Design –Artificial Intelligence

6. Research, Teaching & Labs

7. Software Engineering Begins with CSCE 1030 / 1040 An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in the Java Language –Representing the World through Software Objects –Programming With Intelligent Agents

8. Software Engineering Program Your Player’s Artificial Intelligence –When to Move, Attack, Drop Mines and Pillage the Enemy Base –All Programs Do Battle in a Tournament –Last Tank Alive Wins Prizes The CSCI 1120 Tank War

9. Wireless Computing & Security Investigating Security Vulnerabilities in Wireless Protocols –Impersonation –Eavesdropping –Location Attack –Batter Exhaustion Attack

10. Game Programming Laboratory for Recreational Computing (LARC) 1:15 AMGame Demo

11. Game Programming Create a game in collaboration with game art students Demo it before industry reps and judges –Ritual Entertainment –Terminal Reality –Game Company Recruiters

12. Natural Language Processing Language and Information Technologies (LIT Lab) –Machine Learning applied to NLP and Information Retrieval –Multi-lingual text processing –Story telling and understanding –Intelligent Information Retrieval –All the things needs

13. Computer Security Mission: –Increase general security awareness –Produce skilled security specialists –Conduct research to advance the state of the art in computer security Facilities include a safe environment for experimenting with potentially dangerous software

14. Computer Security UNT has received NSA certification for Computer Security courses Topics covered: –Cryptography –Intrusion Detection –Mobile Agent Security –E-Commerce Security

15. Computer Systems Research Lab –Uses advanced hardware and software design tools to achieve: Better performance Lower power requirements Equipment that is less expensive to manufacture Example: Speculative Execution –Trying to guess what the computer will need in the future to speed access Computer Architecture

16. Intelligent Memory Devices (IRAM) –Processing unit embedded in the memory chip Embedded Computing –New devices –Stringent power requirements

17. Interfaces Human-Computer Interaction Interactive Media Lab Virtual Reality

18. Other Research Areas Databases, Data Mining –Extracting exactly what you want from massive amounts of information Compilers Geometric Computing and Graphs –Geometric Computation Lab Networking –Network Research Lab

19. Research Work on State of the Art Projects as an Undergraduate –Assist the Faculty in Funded Research –Participate in Industry Co-operatives –CSCE 4890 Directed Study

20. Community

21. Friday Research Seminars Faculty and students presenting their research From UNT and beyond

22. Engineering Events Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) Robotics Competition Engineering Week

23. Over 1,300 companies University-wide Well paid, topical, supervised positions Full time jobs offered to 75-80% of students with 2 or more semesters at a company On-site office at Research Park Cooperatives

24. Society Membership Society of Women Engineers IEEE Computer Society Association of Computing Machinery Eta Kappa Nu – Engineering Honors Upsilon Pi Epsilon – Computing Honors

25. Facilities

26. Research Park Create Your Game in Our New 553,000 Square Foot Research Park Home to the UNT College of Engineering

27. Research Park Computing Facilities Compaq Alpha Servers Sun Workstations 4-Node SUN Symmetric Multi-Processor Terabyte Storage system Mac and PC General Access Labs An ADM-3A 300 bits per second!

28. Research Park Library, General Access Labs, Dining Services, Study Areas Research Park Student Facilities

29. Research Park Shuttle Just North of UNT Campus in Denton

30. For more information: www.cs.unt.edu 940.565.2767