Atlantis University - Online Campus

Este curso cubre la arquitectura emergente de procesadores multinúcleo y los modelos de programación paralela. Los estudiantes desarrollarán habilidades para optimizar el rendimiento en sistemas de alto rendimiento (HPC) y trabajarán con arquitecturas avanzadas como GPU. Además, explorarán metodologías para programación en memoria compartida y distribuida, así como la combinación de MPI y CUDA para procesamiento paralelo a gran escala.

This course will prepare students personally and professionally for conducting a job search and planning a career path.  It will include the identification and development of skills necessary for future employment and potential career opportunities.  Participants will develop job search, networking, and career management skills to include business etiquette, salary negotiations, interviewing, and communications. Each student will learn the principles of developing a personal brand, and will create resumes, cover letters and portfolio elements to help communicate their brand and pursue their career objectives. This is a required course for all majors.

To provide a working knowledge of the hardware and architecture of a computer system, particularly focusing on aspects such as memory hierarchy, cache coherence and multi-threaded hardware support that affect a full understanding of how to write multi-threaded software. This is a practical course, grounded in a theoretical understanding of concurrency and the problems and benefits it brings. We will use multi-threaded Java and provide an understanding of how to apply appropriate concurrency control primitives where there is simultaneous access to shared resources.

In this class, the fundamentals of embedded system hardware and firmware design will be explored. Issues such as embedded processor selection, hardware/firmware partitioning, glue logic, circuit design, circuit layout, circuit debugging, development tools, firmware architecture, firmware design, and firmware debugging will be discussed. The Intel 8051, a very popular microcontroller, will be studied. The architecture and instruction set of the microcontroller will be discussed, and a wirewrapped microcontroller board will be built and debugged by each student. The course will culminate with a significant final project which will extend the base microcontroller board completed earlier in the course. Learning may be supplemented with periodic guest lectures by embedded systems engineers from industry. Depending on the interests of the students, other topics may be covered.

The course studies the principles of computer systems and network security. Students discuss various attack techniques and how to defend against them. Topics of study include network attacks, defenses, operating system holes, email, web security, malware, social engineering attacks, privacy, and digital rights management. 

Language and Speech Communication may be one of the most useful courses a student will take during his or her undergraduate career. Not only does it focus on the skills involved in selecting, researching, organizing, and writing persuasive messages, it teaches students the skills they need to present their ideas effectively in public. 

In a small, supportive classroom environment, students learn to communicate their ideas effectively using verbal, written, and visual techniques. They also learn important listening skills, and peer evaluations of student speeches are an important component of the course. 

Students also undertake self-evaluations, by viewing videotapes of their own speeches and analyzing their performance.