No fluff. To get the degree students must
- pass the Computing, Engineering, and Analytics courses (18 credits),
- pass two of the optional courses (6 credits)
- complete a project or thesis (6 credits)
- Interaction models (a distributed computing course starting with models of distributed computation and finishing with interaction protocols for social actors)
- Information & programming models (a databases course, but taking into account developments in the Semantic Web, NoSQL database, and things such as map-reduce)
- Service-oriented computing
- Software engineering
- Statistics
- Data mining
- Organizational Computing (norms, argumentation, and trust in organizations)
- Security
- Mechanism Design (incentives, auctions, and so on)
- Health Information Systems
- Social networks
- Social simulations
- Machine learning
