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
CS 595J - Seminar in Network Science Winter 2018 73502 2
CS 595N: Computer Science Faculty Research Seminar -- Required for first year PhD students.. Winter 2018 Matthew Turk 57802 2
CS 292F Advanced Topics in Cryptography Fall 2017 Foundations 9191 4
CS595I Advanced NLP/ML Seminar Fall 2017 William Wang 2
CS 291A -Introduction to Natural Language Processing Fall 2017 William Wang Applications 55533 4
CS 291A Advanced topics in highly scalable Internet services and their underlying systems architecture Fall 2017 Applications 9142 4
292F: All About Networks Fall 2017 Foundations 9175 4
CS 595G Hacking Club Seminar Fall 2017 Giovanni Vigna 9282 2
CS 595J - Seminar in Network Science Fall 2017 Ambuj Singh 9290 4
CS291K: Deep Learning Spring 2017
Cryptographic Engineering Spring 2017 Systems 49874 4
CS 595J - Seminar in Network Science Spring 2017 Ambuj Singh 64030 2
CS 595J - Seminar in Network Science Winter 2017 69153 2
CS 291A Data Driven Networking and Systems Design Winter 2017 Applications 53314 4
CS291A Introduction to Pattern Recognition, Artificial Neural Networks, and Machine Learning Winter 2017 Yuan-Fang Wang Applications 53322 4
CS 292F - Elliptic Curve Cryptography Winter 2017 Foundations 53330 4
CS 292F -- Applied Cryptography Winter 2017 Foundations 53348 4
CS 293S: Information Retrieval and Web Search Winter 2017 Tao Yang Systems 53355 4
CS 595N: Computer Science Faculty Research Seminar Winter 2017 62661 2
CS 192 Computational Thinking Fall 2016 61671 2