CS Special Topics Numbering System

CS special topics courses have the following numbering system:

 

A: Foundations
B: Software Systems
D: Information Management
I: Intelligent and Interactive Systems
J: General
N: General

A: Applications, General
D: Database and Information Systems 
G: Security and Cryptography 
H: Computational Science and Engineering 
I: Visual Computing and Interaction
K: Machine Learning and Data Mining    

A: Algorithms
C: Programming Languages and Software Eng.
F: Foundations, General
G: Security and Cryptography
H: Computational Science and Engineering 

B: Operating Systems and Distributed Systems
C: Programming Languages and Software Engineering
D: Database and Information Systems
E: Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems
G: Security and Cryptography
K: Machine Learning and Data Mining        
N: Networking
S: Systems, General

 

A list of past Special Topics courses offered is available at this link

Special Topics and Seminars Block
Course Name Quarter Instructor Course Area Enrollment Code Units
594 Great Presentations Spring 2015 56317
595G - Hacking Club Spring 2015 2
290D - Social and Biological Networks Winter 2015 Tobias Höllerer Foundations/Theory 62042 4
290G - Research Topics in Cryptography Winter 2015 Foundations/Theory 9621 4
290I - Mixed and Augmented Reality Winter 2015 Tobias Höllerer Applications 55178 4
290I - Mobile Imaging Winter 2015 Matthew Turk Applications 9639 4
290I - Special Topics in Image Synthesis Winter 2015 Applications 62828 4
290N - Information Retrieval and Advanced Internet Services Winter 2015 Tao Yang Applications 9654 4
595G - Hacking Club Winter 2015 Richard Kemmerer 62836 2
595N - Faculty Research Seminar Winter 2015 Rachel Lin 62844 2
290C - Logic, Computation, and Programming Languages Winter 2015 Ben Hardekopf (70) Theory 55160 4
595D - Process Discovery and Model Enhancement Winter 2015 Jianwen Su 77107 2
595E - The Provable Properties of Mixed Hardware/Software Systems Winter 2015 Timothy Sherwood 80002 2
595F Technology & Society Gateway Seminar Winter 2015 Elizabeth M. Belding 70508 4
290A - Big Data and Networks Fall 2014 Subhash Suri, Xifeng Yan Theory 59337 4
290B - Scalable Internet Services Fall 2014 Applications 9936 4.0, letter grade ONLY
290G - Foundation of Cryptography Fall 2014 Foundations 50260 4
595J - Seminar on Secure Search Fall 2014 Rachel Lin, Stefano Tessaro, Tao Yang TBA 2
595J Seminar on Large-Scale Information & Storage Systems Fall 2014 Tao Yang Systems 2