المستوي الثالث – علوم الحاسب

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Register transfer notation; physical considerations (gate delays, fan-in, fan-out). Assembly level organization: Basic organization of the von Neumann machine; control unit; instruction fetch, decode, and execution; instruction sets and types (data manipulation, control, I/O); assembly/machine language programming; instruction formats; addressing modes; subroutine call and return mechanisms; I/O and interrupts. Memory systems: Storage systems and their technology; coding, data compression, and data integrity; memory hierarchy; main memory organization and operations; latency, cycle time, bandwidth, and interleaving; cache memories (address mapping, block size, replacement and store policy); virtual memory (page table, TLB); fault handling and reliability. Interfacing and communication: I/O fundamentals: handshaking, buffering, programmed I/O, interrupt-driven I/O; interrupt structures: vectored and prioritized, interrupt acknowledgment; external storage, physical organization, and drives; buses: bus protocols, arbitration, direct-memory access (DMA); introduction to networks; multimedia support; raid architectures. Functional organization: Implementation of simple datapaths; control unit: hardwired realization vs. microprogrammed realization; instruction pipelining; introduction to instruction-level parallelism (ILP). Multiprocessor and alternative architectures: Introduction to SIMD, MIMD, VLIW, EPIC; systolic architecture; interconnection networks; shared memory systems; cache coherence; memory models and memory consistency. Performance enhancements: RISC architecture; branch prediction; prefetching; scalability. Contemporary architectures: Hand-held devices; embedded systems; trends in processor architecture.

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Computer Architecture

CS321

Scope and applications of image are processing. Perspective transformations (Modeling picture taking, perspective transformations in homogeneous coordinates and with two reference frames). The spatial frequency domain (The sampling theorem, template matching and the convolution theorem, spatial filtering). Enhancement and restoration, image segmentation. Image representation: (Spatial differentiation and smoothing, template matching, region analysis, contour following). Descriptive methods in scene analysis. Hardware and software considerations. Applications.

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Image Processing

CS352

Fundamental issues in intelligent systems -  History of artificial intelligence - Agents: Definition of agents; successful applications and state-of-the-art agent-based systems; software agents, personal assistants, and information access; multi-agent systems - Modeling the world; the role of heuristics - Search and constraint satisfaction - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Advanced search: Genetic algorithms; simulated annealing; local search - Advanced knowledge representation and reasoning - Structured representation; nonmonotonic reasoning; reasoning on action and change - AI planning systems: Definition and examples of planning systems; planning as search; operator-based planning; propositional planning.

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Artificial Intelligence

CS361

Event-driven programming - Foundations of human-computer interaction -  Using APIs - Building a graphical user interface - Graphic systems - Professional issues of software processes including software requirements and specifications; Software design; Software validation; Software evolution - Software project management - Methods and tools of analysis - Professional and ethical responsibilities - Risks and liabilities of computer-based systems.

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Software Development and Professional Practice

CS381

Software processes: Software life-cycle and process models; process assessment models; software process metrics. Software requirements and specifications. Software design: Fundamental design concepts and principles; software architecture; structured design; object-oriented analysis and design; component-level design; design for reuse. Software validation: Validation planning; testing fundamentals; unit, integration, validation, and system testing; object-oriented testing; inspections. Software evolution: Software maintenance; characteristics of maintainable software; reengineering; legacy systems; software reuse. Software project management. Component-based computing: Fundamentals; basic techniques; applications; architecture of component-based systems; component-oriented design; event handling; middleware.

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Software Engineering

SE301

Standards bodies. Switched vs. packets networking. OSI model. Internet model (TCP/IP). Nodes & links. LAN, WAN. Bandwidth, throughput. Components and architectures. Routing and switching. Communication protocols. Application, Transport, and network layers protocols.

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Computer Networks

IT351

المستوي الثالث – تكنولوجيا المعلومات

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Register transfer notation; physical considerations (gate delays, fan-in, fan-out). Assembly level organization: Basic organization of the von Neumann machine; control unit; instruction fetch, decode, and execution; instruction sets and types (data manipulation, control, I/O); assembly/machine language programming; instruction formats; addressing modes; subroutine call and return mechanisms; I/O and interrupts. Memory systems: Storage systems and their technology; coding, data compression, and data integrity; memory hierarchy; main memory organization and operations; latency, cycle time, bandwidth, and interleaving; cache memories (address mapping, block size, replacement and store policy); virtual memory (page table, TLB); fault handling and reliability. Interfacing and communication: I/O fundamentals: handshaking, buffering, programmed I/O, interrupt-driven I/O; interrupt structures: vectored and prioritized, interrupt acknowledgment; external storage, physical organization, and drives; buses: bus protocols, arbitration, direct-memory access (DMA); introduction to networks; multimedia support; raid architectures. Functional organization: Implementation of simple datapaths; control unit: hardwired realization vs. microprogrammed realization; instruction pipelining; introduction to instruction-level parallelism (ILP). Multiprocessor and alternative architectures: Introduction to SIMD, MIMD, VLIW, EPIC; systolic architecture; interconnection networks; shared memory systems; cache coherence; memory models and memory consistency. Performance enhancements: RISC architecture; branch prediction; prefetching; scalability. Contemporary architectures: Hand-held devices; embedded systems; trends in processor architecture.

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Computer Architecture

CS321

Scope and applications of image are processing. Perspective transformations (Modeling picture taking, perspective transformations in homogeneous coordinates and with two reference frames). The spatial frequency domain (The sampling theorem, template matching and the convolution theorem, spatial filtering). Enhancement and restoration, image segmentation. Image representation: (Spatial differentiation and smoothing, template matching, region analysis, contour following). Descriptive methods in scene analysis. Hardware and software considerations. Applications.

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Image Processing

CS352

Fundamental issues in intelligent systems -  History of artificial intelligence - Agents: Definition of agents; successful applications and state-of-the-art agent-based systems; software agents, personal assistants, and information access; multi-agent systems - Modeling the world; the role of heuristics - Search and constraint satisfaction - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Advanced search: Genetic algorithms; simulated annealing; local search - Advanced knowledge representation and reasoning - Structured representation; nonmonotonic reasoning; reasoning on action and change - AI planning systems: Definition and examples of planning systems; planning as search; operator-based planning; propositional planning.

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Artificial Intelligence

CS361

Event-driven programming - Foundations of human-computer interaction -  Using APIs - Building a graphical user interface - Graphic systems - Professional issues of software processes including software requirements and specifications; Software design; Software validation; Software evolution - Software project management - Methods and tools of analysis - Professional and ethical responsibilities - Risks and liabilities of computer-based systems.

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Software Development and Professional Practice

CS381

Software processes: Software life-cycle and process models; process assessment models; software process metrics. Software requirements and specifications. Software design: Fundamental design concepts and principles; software architecture; structured design; object-oriented analysis and design; component-level design; design for reuse. Software validation: Validation planning; testing fundamentals; unit, integration, validation, and system testing; object-oriented testing; inspections. Software evolution: Software maintenance; characteristics of maintainable software; reengineering; legacy systems; software reuse. Software project management. Component-based computing: Fundamentals; basic techniques; applications; architecture of component-based systems; component-oriented design; event handling; middleware.

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Software Engineering

SE301

Standards bodies. Switched vs. packets networking. OSI model. Internet model (TCP/IP). Nodes & links. LAN, WAN. Bandwidth, throughput. Components and architectures. Routing and switching. Communication protocols. Application, Transport, and network layers protocols.

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Computer Networks

IT351

المستوي الأول

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Introduction: Brief history of computing; the components of a computing system.

Machine level representation of data: Bits, bytes, and words; numeric data representation and number bases; signed and twos-complement representations; fundamental operations on bits; representation of nonnumeric data.

Digital logic: Switching circuits; gates; memory.

Assembly level machine organization: Basic organization of the von Neumann machine; control unit; instruction fetch, decode, and execution; instruction sets and types; assembly/machine language programming; instruction formats.

Hardware realizations of algorithms: Data representation; the von Neumann model of computation; the fetch/decode/execute cycle; basic machine organization.

Operating systems and virtual machines: Historical evolution of operating systems; responsibilities of an operating system; basic components of an operating system.

Computing applications: Word processing; spreadsheets; editors; files and directories.

Introduction to net-centric computing: Background and history of networking and the Internet; demonstration and use of networking software including e-mail, telnet, and FTP.

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CS Fundamentals

CS121

Pre-calculus review: sets and functions; limits and continuity − Derivatives: techniques of differentiation; derivatives of the basic and fundamental functions; implicit differentiation; linear approximation and differentials; extreme of functions; optimization problems; velocity and acceleration − Integrals: indefinite integrals; change of variables; definite integrals; the fundamental theorem of calculus − Techniques of integration: integration by parts; trigonometric integrals and substitutions; integrals of rational functions − Numerical integration − Applications of definite integrals.

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Mathematics I

MATH101

Mechanics: Physics and measurements; Motion in one dimension; Vectors; Motion in two dimensions; Laws of motion; Circular motion and its applications; Work and energy; Potential energy and conservation of energy; Linear momentum and collision; Rotation of a rigid body; Rolling motion; Law of gravity.

Waves: Oscillatory motion; Wave motion; Sound waves.

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Physics I

PHYS101

Electrical circuit laws and theorems: Ohm’s Kirchhoff’s, mesh, nodal, Thevenin’s maximum power transfer theorems for both DC and AC circuits , R, L, C elements. Electronic components and circuits diodes − bipolar junction transistors − field-effect transistors and use of transistors in amplifiers. OP-Amp, digital circuits − physical design of simple gates − flip-flops and memory circuits. 

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Electronics

PHYS103

The material reflects the stylistic variety that advanced earners have to be able to deal with. The course gives practice in specific points of grammar to consolidate and extend learners existing knowledge. Analysis of syntax; comprehension; skimming and scanning exercises develop the learner’s skills, comprehension questions interpretation and implication. The activities aim to develop listening, speaking and writing skills through a communicative, functional approach, with suggested topics for discussion and exercises in summary writing and composition.

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English Language

HUM111

Elements of the communication process, barriers to communications, effective writing skills, report writing, and oral presentation skills. Good diction, extempore speaking in the appropriate context will be key skills in this course.

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Interpersonal Communication

HUM132

المستوي الثاني

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Introduction to object-oriented programming − Using an object-oriented language; classes and objects; syntax of class definitions; methods; members − Simple data: variables, types, and expressions; assignment − Control structures: Iteration; conditionals − Message passing: Simple methods; parameter passing – Sub-classing; encapsulation and information hiding; separation of behavior and implementation; class hierarchies; inheritance; polymorphism − Collection classes and iteration protocols − Using APIs: Class libraries; packages for graphics and GUI applications − Object-oriented design: Fundamental design concepts and principles; introduction to design patterns; object-oriented analysis and design; design for reuse .

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Object-Oriented Programming

CS241

Information systems components. Information systems in organizations: Characteristics of IS professionals, IS career paths, Cost/value information, Quality of information, competitive advantage of information, IS and organizational strategy, Value chains and networks. Globalization. Valuing information systems: Investment evaluation, Multi-criteria analysis, Cost-benefit analysis, Identifying and implementing innovations. E-business: B-to-C, B-to-B, Intranets, Internet, extranets, E-government, Web 2.0 Technologies: e.g., wikis, tags, blogs, netcasts, self-publishing, New forms of collaboration: social networking, virtual teams, viral marketing crowd-sourcing. Security of information systems: Threats to information systems, Technology-based safeguards. Business intelligence: Organizational decision making, functions, and levels, Executive, managerial, and operational levels, Systems to support organizational functions and decision making. Information and knowledge discovery: Reporting systems, Online analytical processing, Data, text, and Web mining, Business analytics. Application systems: Executive, managerial, and operational support systems, Decision support systems.

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Foundations of Information Systems

IS201

Information requirements: Structuring of IT-based opportunities into projects; Project specification; Project prioritization; Analysis of project feasibility.  Operational, Tangible costs and benefits (financial and other measures such as time savings), Intangible costs and benefits such as good will, company image: Technical; Schedule; Cultural (organizational and ethnic). Fundamentals of IS project management in the global context.  Using globally distributed communication and collaboration platforms.  Analysis and specification of system requirements; Data collection methods; Methods for structuring and communicating requirements; Factors affecting user experience; User interface design; System data requirements; Factors affecting security; Ethical considerations in requirements specification. Different approaches to implementing information systems to support business requirements: Packaged systems; enterprise; systems; Outsourced development; In-house development. Specifying implementation alternatives for a specific system.  Methods and impact of implementation alternatives on system requirements specification. Different approaches to systems analysis and design: structured SDLC, unified process/UML, agile methods

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Systems Analysis and Design

IS231

Communication models, Data communication, networks, protocol architectures. Data Transmission, Transmission media wired and wireless, transmission impairment. Encoding and modulating baseband, Digital and analog modulation.   Flow control and Error control. Multiplexing.

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Data Communications

IT251

Laplace transform − Inverse Transform − Fourier series − complex Fourier series − Fourier integrals − Fourier cosine and sine transforms − Fourier transform – Discrete and fast Fourier transforms − Z-transform − Inverse Z-transform − Discrete-time systems and difference equations − Discrete linear systems − Wavelet transform − Applications.

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Mathematics III

MATH201

Management concepts, level and types of management, planning and organization of work flow, delegation, leadership styles, decision making, stress and time management, and employee relations, decision-making in such areas as investment in operations, productions planning, scheduling and control, reliability and maintenance.

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Business Administration

HUM231