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
Special Topics and Seminars Spring 2019
CS 291A: Physically Based Photorealistic Rendering Winter 2019 Lingqi Yan Applications 65979 4
CS 292F: Quantum Information and Quantum Computation Winter 2019 Wim van Dam Foundations 9142 4
CS 293S: Internet of Things Winter 2019 Markus Mock Systems 62976 4
CS 594 - Unconscious Memory and the Human Mind (Part I) Winter 2019 Matthew Turk n/a - Seminar will count as satisfying CS 595 unit requirements. 65987 4
CS 595G -Secure Computer Architectures Winter 2019 Giovanni Vigna, Timothy Sherwood 9217 2
CS 595J - Seminar in Computer systems research at UCSB Winter 2019 86132 2
CS 595J - Seminar in Network Science Winter 2019 2
CS 291A - Highly scalable Internet services and their underlying systems architecture Fall 2018 Applications 9175 4
CS 291A -Introduction to Natural Language Processing Fall 2018 William Wang Applications 55533 4
293S: Program Optimization for Performance Fall 2018 Systems 57257 4
CS 293D: Information Retrieval and Web Search Fall 2018 Tao Yang Systems 58958
594: Collaborative Research: Visualizing Environmental Models Fall 2018 Tobias Höllerer 74328 4
595G: Hacking Club Seminar Fall 2018 Giovanni Vigna 73346 2
595J: Preparing for your Academic Job Search Fall 2018 Elizabeth M. Belding 2
CS 595J - Seminar in Network Science Fall 2018 Francesco Bullo 2
CS 291K - Deep learning for text analysis Spring 2018 Xifeng Yan Applications 8813 4
CS 293B -- Cloud Computing Spring 2018 Rich Wolski Systems 8839 4
CS 293G -- Cryptographic Engineering Spring 2018 Systems 8847 4
CS 595J -- Seminar in Network Science Spring 2018 75242 2