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
CMPSC 291K Deep Learning for Machine Translation Fall 2021 Lei Li Applications 57208 4
CMPSC 292A MCMC Algorithms Fall 2021 Eric Vigoda Foundations 57224 4
CMPSC 292G Quantitative Information Flow Fall 2021 Tevfik Bultan Foundations 8748 4
CMPSC 293S Information Retrieval and Web Search Fall 2021 Tao Yang Systems 8755 4
CMPSC 190I Program Synthesis for the Masses Spring 2021 Yu Feng 63925 4
CMPSC 291A Future User Interfaces Spring 2021 Misha Sra Applications 8177 4
CMPSC 291A Real-Time High Quality Rendering Spring 2021 Lingqi Yan Applications 8185 4
CMPSC 291I Computational Fabrication Spring 2021 Jennifer Jacobs 4
CMPSC 292A Algorithmic Graph Theory Spring 2021 Daniel Lokshtanov Foundations 62653 4
CMPSC 292F Data Integration Techniques Spring 2021 Jianwen Su Foundations 4
CMPSC 292F Graph Laplacians and Spectra: Theory and Applications Spring 2021 John Gilbert Foundations 63602 4
CMPSC 292F Machine Learning on Graphs Spring 2021 Ambuj Singh Foundations 65078 4
CMPSC 292F Statistical Reinforcement Learning Spring 2021 Yu-Xiang Wang Foundations 8193 4
CMPSC 293G Security and Cryptography Spring 2021 Trinabh Gupta Systems 62679 4
CMPSC 291A (Bryce Boe): Scalable Internet Services Winter 2021 Applications 8417 4
CMPSC 291A (Hollerer): Mixed and Augmented Reality Winter 2021 Tobias Höllerer Applications 64097 4
CMPSC 291A (William Wang): Deep Learning Winter 2021 William Wang Applications 64105 4
CMPSC 595E: Seminar in Hardware Description Languages for Novel Architectures Winter 2021 Timothy Sherwood 80184 2
CMPSC 595J: Sustainable Food Systems Seminar Winter 2021 Chandra Krintz 83618 2
CMPSC 291D: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains and Smart Contracts Fall 2020 Database and Information Systems (Applications) 57398 4