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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Waterloo

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Outline

Courses available

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Course Summary

4A 4B

No courses ECE 406 Algorithm Design and Analysis

ECE 409 Cryptography and System Security (starting W2014)

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Which Courses to Take?

4B: ECE 406 Algorithm Design and Analysis Design and analysis of efficient, correct algorithms. Advanced data structures, divide and conquer algorithms, recurrences, greedy algorithms, dynamic programming, graph algorithms, search and backtrack, inherently hard and unsolvable problems, approximation and randomized algorithms, and amortized analysis.

ECE 409 Cryptography and System Security (starting W2014)Introduction to cryptology and computer security, theory of secure communications, points of attack, conventional cryptographic systems, public key cryptographic systems, standards, firewalls, wireless system security, applications.

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Pre-Enrolment

Remember that you must pre-enrol in– October for 4A courses– June for 4B courses

Courses with fewer than 20 students will be cancelled!

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Summary

Courses available:– Two in 4B

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