Information Internetworks

Represent, transform, transmit, and present information.

The Information Internetworks thread is where computing meets data enterprise. This thread deals with implications in the context of personal and organizational information management. Information Internetworks prepares students for all levels of information management by helping them to capture, represent, organize, transform, communicate, and present data so that it becomes information, using geographically distributed multi-national organizations and information needs as context.

The student who pursues Information Internetworks can combine it with Systems and Architecture to develop information rich distributed systems, with Devices to ensure data synchronization in ad-hoc networks of small devices, with Media to build multiplayer online games, with Modeling to study text retrieval and classification, or with People to pursue research in data visualization.

Early Preparation

  • Computer architecture, hardware, and operating systems, basic communication protocols
  • Discrete structures, graph theory
  • Object-oriented design and programming
  • Data structures and programming skills
  • Computer Hardware Architecture
  • Basic Operating Systems
  • Basic Communication networks
  • Discrete structures: Set theory, Graph theory
  • Basic Algorithms (e.g., sorting, searching) and Algorithmic techniques (e.g., greedy search, divide and conquer)
  • Probability and statistics
  • Combinatorics

Knowledge Goals

  • Communications and networking architectures and protocols
  • Data Security and Data Privacy
  • Mobile computing
  • Interoperability issues, distributed object systems and middleware
  • Data modeling and conceptual models
  • Relational data models, object-oriented models
  • Database implementation and principles, data storage, indexing, query optimization, recovery, transactional model, concurrency control and scalability
  • Indexing, Searching, and Mining for Web data and sensor stream data, Multimedia data management, Integrating heterogeneous data sources
  • Data visualization principles especially for large datasets

Skill Outcomes

  • Able to implement network protocols in the context of contemporary operating systems
  • Able to program with sockets, threads, IPAble to implement secure, reliable client/server and peer-to-peer distributed systems
  • Able to develop effective, distributed applications (e.g., multimedia)
  • Able to develop conceptual data models and design relational databases
  • Able to select, design, and implement scalable and secure information management solutions
  • Able to develop effective client-server database applications
  • Familiar with programming languages such as Java, C++, C and principles of implementing secure stand-alone and server side applications

Required Courses:

View the course prerequisites for the Information Internetworks Thread.

  • CS 1301 Introduction to Computing and Programming, 3
  • CS 1331 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, 3
  • CS 1332 Data Structures and Algorithms, 3
  • CS 2050 or CS 2051 Introduction to Discrete Math for CS, 3
  • CS 2110 Computing Organization and Programming, 4
  • CS 2200 Computer Systems and Networks, 4
  • CS 2340 Objects and Design, 3
  • CS 3510 or CS 3511 Design and Analysis of Algorithms, 3
Pick 2 from Introduction to Information Management
  • CS 3251 Computer Networking 1, 3
  • CS 3235 Introduction to Information Security, 3
  • CS 4400 Introduction to Database Systems, 3
Pick 1 from Advanced Information Management
  • Remaining Course from Intro Info Mgmt pick, 3
  • CS 4251 Computer Networking 2, 3
  • CS 4255 Introduction to Network Management, 3
  • CS 4261 Mobile Applications and Services for Converged Networks, 3 
  • CS 4262 Network Security, 3
  • CS 4270 Data Communications Laboratory, 3
  • CS 4365 Introduction to Enterprise Computing, 3
  • CS 4420 Database System Implementation, 3
  • CS 4440 Emerging Database Technologies and Applications, 3
  • CS 4675 Internet Computing Systems, Services, and Applications, 3

 

Elective Courses:

Free Electives (6 hours)

 

Introduction to Information Management
  • CS 3251 Computer Networking 1, 3
  • CS 3235 Introduction to Information Security, 3
  • CS 4400 Introduction to Database Systems, 3
Advanced Information Management
  • CS 4237 Computer and Network Security, 3
  • CS 4251 Computer Networking 2, 3
  • CS 4255 Introduction to Network Management, 3
  • CS 4261 Mobile Applications and Services for Converged Networks, 3 
  • CS 4265 Technical Introduction to Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, 3
  • CS 4270 Data Communications Laboratory, 3
  • CS 4365 Introduction to Enterprise Computing, 3
  • CS 4420 Database System Implementation, 3
  • CS 4440 Emerging Database Technologies and Applications, 3

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