School of Mathematics
Course 362 - Computer Engineering 1998-99 (SS Mathematics )
Lecturer: Dr. J.B. Grimson, Professor J.G. Byrne and Dr. P. Cunningham (Computer Science)
Requirements/prerequisites: 372

Duration:
Number of lectures per week: 5 in Michaelmas term, 4 in Hilary term

Assessment: Course work

End-of-year Examination: One 3-hour examination

Description: The course is divided into three parts:

File organisation and database management
- basic file organisation techniques including sequential, ISAM, VSAM, direct access, B-trees, inverted files, multi-lists
- overview of database management including architecture of DBMS, concurrency control, recovery, security, integrity
- introduction to relational DBMS using Oracle SQL, normalisation.
Formal language theory and denotational semantics with practical application to compiler construction.
LISP and an introduction to artificial intelligence.

Jun 10, 1998