2026-08-23: Six WSDL Classed Offered for Fall 2026

https://xkcd.com/2501/

Eight courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered for Fall 2026.  The classes will be a mixture of asynchronous and f2. 

• CS 418/518 Web Programming, Ms. Nasreen Muhammad Arif, Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4:15 
  Topics: MySQL, React, Express.js, NodeJS, MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub  
• CS 432/532 Web Science, Ms. Nasreen Muhammad Arif, asynchronous  
  Topics: Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.  
• CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics, Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4:15,  Dr. Sampath Jayarathna, and asynchronous (8 week session starting in October), Dr. Bhanuka Mahanama
  Topics: Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML, Colab.
  
• CS 625 Data Visualization, Dr. Bhanuka Mahanama, Web, asynchronous 
  Topics: Tableau, Python Seaborn, Matplotlib, Vega-Lite, Observable, Markdown, OpenRefine, data cleaning, visual perception, visualization design, exploratory data analysis, visual storytelling 
• CS 733/833 Natural Language Processing, Dr. Vikas Ashok, Wednesdays 4:30-7 
  Topics: Language Models, Parsing, Word Embedding, Machine Translation, Text Simplification, Text Summarization, Question Answering
• CS 795/895 Foundational Models for Data Science, Dr. Jian Wu, Thursdays, 6:00-8:40 
  Topics: AI, Foundation Models, Language Models, Large Language Models, Multimodal Large Language Models, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Text Generation

Dr. Michael L. Nelson will not be teaching in Fall 2026. The Spring 2027 semester is still undecided, but the following courses are likely:

• CS 432/532 Web Science, Ms. Arif
• CS 480/850 AI, Dr. Vikas Ashok
• CS 725/825 Information Visualization, TBD
• CS 728/828 Deep Learning, Dr. Jian Wu
• CS 734/834 Information Retrieval, Dr. Jian Wu
• CS 740/840 Computer Vision, Dr. Vikas Ashok
• CS 800 Research Methods, Dr. Michael L. Nelson

Previous course offerings: S26, F25, S25, F24, S24, F23, S23, F22, S22, F21, S21, F20, S20, F19, S19, and F18.

--Michael