Basic issues in concurrency, deadlock control, synchronization scheduling, memory management, protection and access control, inter-process communication, and structured design. Laboratory experiences with Unix-like operating system.

Global Internet: design principles, layering, protocol design/analysis. Networked applications, Internet structure/architecture, Protocols for transport/congestion control, network layer/routing, link layer/MAC. Network security.

Computer organization; entity abstraction and representation; program execution; code optimization; memory usage; exception handling; processing control; computer performance; hands-on work done in C and assembly.

Concepts and algorithms underlying the understanding and construction of intelligent systems. Agents, problem solving, search, representation, reasoning, planning, machine learning.

Computer graphics, OpenGL, 2D and 3D transformations, Bézier splines, computer animation, rendering including ray tracing, shading and lighting, artistic rendering, virtual reality, visualization.

Explores the aesthetic development/technical implementation necessary to achieve unique, compelling, intuitive visual design in games. Students will develop group visual game design portfolios.

Covers core skills for creating in a digital game engine, the role of prototyping in the game development and the use of version control systems.

Application of techniques used to develop games for mobile devices. Sprites, mobile input, mobile graphics and monetization.

Concepts and projects relating to the implementation and presentation of digital games; core level design preproduction techniques.

Concepts and methods of usability assessment. The emphasis will be on understanding the issues surrounding game interfaces, and utilizing usability assessment methods.

Developing games or technology based on current and relevant special topics.

Advanced gameplay programming techniques for both single player and networked multiplayer games using an industry-standard game engine.

Application of mathematics, physics, geometry and programming algorithms in the context of video game programming practice.

Advanced concepts in 3-D game development: story and character progression, emergent game-play, comprehensive game mechanics and artificial intelligence.

Techniques for building the core components of a game engine; 2-D/3-D graphics, collision detection, artificial intelligence algorithms, shading, programming input devices.

Development of a game around a custom-made physical interface; various technologies and techniques involved in a software/hardware integration; peripheral design.

Development, modeling, and animation with an emphasis on character setup features: rigging, skeletons, deformers and scripting. Applying principles of traditional animation to 3-D character rig/puppet.

Lecture and laboratory in computer animation: geometric modeling, motion specification, lighting, texture mapping, rendering, compositing, production techniques, systems for computer-synthesized animation using Maya software.