2026-01-12: Eight WSDL Classes Offered for Spring 2026

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Eight courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered for Spring 2026.  The classes will be a mixture of on-line synchronous, asynchronous, and f2f. 

  • CS 418/518 Web Programming, Ms. Nasreen Muhammad Arif, Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:15 
    Topics: MySQL, React, Express.js, NodeJS, MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub  
  • CS 431/531 Web Server Design, Mr. David Calano, Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 10:00-10:50 
    Topics: HTTP, REST (Representational State Transfer), HATEOAS   
  • CS 432/532 Web Science, Ms. Nasreen Muhammad Arif, asynchronous  
    Topics: Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.  
  • CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics, Dr. Bhanuka Mahanama, Web, Tuesdays & Thursdays 6:00-7:15 and asynchronous (8 week session starting in October)
    Topics: Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML, Colab.
  • CS 625 Data Visualization, Dr. Bhanuka Mahanama, Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:45
    Topics: Tableau, Python Seaborn, Matplotlib, Vega-Lite, Observable, Markdown, OpenRefine, data cleaning, visual perception, visualization design, exploratory data analysis, visual storytelling 
  • CS 732/832 Human Computer Interaction, Dr. Bhanuka Mahanama, Tuesdays 4:30-7:10 
    Topics: Cognitive and social phenomena surrounding human use of computers.  
  • CS 733/833 Natural Language Processing, Dr. Vikas Ashok, asynchronous 
    Topics: Language Models, Parsing, Word Embedding, Machine Translation, Text Simplification, Text Summarization, Question Answering
  • CS 734/834 Information Retrieval, Dr. Santosh Nukavarapu, Tuesdays 4:30-7:10 
    Topics: crawling, ranking, query processing, retrieval models, evaluation, clustering, machine learning. 
While not strictly WSDL courses, Dr. Michael L. Nelson will be teaching CS800 (Mondays, 4:30-7:10), and Himarsha Jayanetti will be teaching CS 450/550 (Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:00-4:15).  Dr. Jian Wu is on sabbatical and will not be teaching in the Spring, Dr. Sampath Jayarathna is now the Assistant Dean for Perry Honors College and will not be teaching in the Spring, and Dr. Michele C. Weigle is now an Associate Dean will have few if any classes going forward.  

The Fall 2026 semester is still undecided, but will likely be similar to the previous Fall semesters. Previous course offerings: F25, S25, F24, S24, F23, S23, F22, S22, F21, S21, F20, S20, F19, S19, and F18.


--Michael


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