CS 598 RK

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in computer science intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

Explores the use of data-driven methods to support creative design processes by examining recent work in human computer-interaction, product design, cognitive science, machine learning, graphics, vision, and natural language processing. Students will read and discuss recent papers from these fields, and work in teams on a multi-week project to build data-driven tools to solve real-world design problems. Practical data mining and machine learning knowledge is emphasized: crowdsourcing and web scraping, model and feature selection, parameter tuning. The course has no formal prerequisites, but students should be algorithmically and programmatically mature.