Computer Science - Future Networked Systems (M.Sc./P.Grad.Dip)

Overview

Course Overview

The course explores how software systems embedded in our everyday environments, connect every day objects and makes them smart. This ranges from mobile social networking to managing city resources such as road traffic. Dealing with such large-scale, cyber-physical and distributed systems requires novel approaches that address timeliness, safety, privacy and scale challenges. The course equips students with the skills and knowledge to tackle such challenges and take up careers in Computer Networking, Software Engineering and related fields, which have transformed society over the past 30 years and continue to enable new advances from Social Networking through the Internet of Things to Cloud Computing.

Is This Course For Me?

This course is designed for graduates from a computing or closely related undergraduate background. Candidates with a good undergraduate Honours degree in disciplines such as engineering, mathematics, or statistics are also encouraged to apply, if they have acquired good programming skills. Candidates will be required to provide evidence of their computing skills and experience.

Career Opportunities

We expect graduates to be in high demand for high-end research and development positions within leading multinational companies and startups alike. Previous graduates have gone on to work in Software Engineering, Financial Technology and other computing related companies including Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Jaguar Land Rover, Citi and Genesys. In some cases, our graduates have gone on to further postgraduate research, taking up funded PhD positions at Trinity or other universities in Ireland abroad.

Course Structure

The full M.Sc. programme, comprising 90 ECTS credits, takes one full calendar year to complete and leads to the qualification of M.Sc. in Computer Science – Future Networked Systems, a Level 9 award under the Irish National Framework for Qualifications (NFQ).

Between September and April, students attend two 12-week teaching semesters, each followed by an assessment period, where they take a range of taught modules. Then, from April to August, students work full-time on their individual research dissertations.

Students may exit with an award of Postgraduate Diploma (P.Grad.Dip.) in Computer Science – Future Networked Systems (NFQ Level 9) upon successful completion of 60 ECTS of taught modules, not including the Research Dissertation.

Course Content

The following core modules are taken by all M.Sc. students on the course: Internet of Things; Scalable Computing; Security & Privacy; Distributed Systems; Urban Computing; Machine Learning; Advanced Software Engineering; and Research and Innovation.

Additionally, students take a number of individually chosen elective modules from a pool of options.

Finally, all students complete a substantial Research Dissertation which comprises a third of the entire course.

Students may exit with a Postgraduate Diploma (P.Grad.Dip.) in Computer Science, upon successful completion of taught modules (not including the Research Dissertation).

Please note that the course content is updated on an annual basis and some minor changes occur from year to year.

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