Cyber Science Fundamentals

Catalog description

This is an introductory course for upper-division courses in Cyber Science. The course provides an overview of five key modules that construct the cyber world: data, networking, computing, applications, and security. Corresponding mathematics, languages, and tools involved in each component will be taught in a preliminary way, such as Python, C++/Unix, SQL, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, SVM, image processing, cryptography, etc. The course also studies how cutting-edge technologies (AI, 5G, IoT, blockchain, VR/AR, quantum computing, etc.) will impact and form the future cyber world in economics, sociology, and ethics.