Web Information Management (MSc) - 2009/2010 entry

Aims

This is a specialised MSc degree focusing on the areas of web technologies and information management, which are major research strengths of the School of Computer Science and Information Systems.

The degree has been designed to meet the needs of both full-time students wishing to advance their knowledge of web information management before embarking on a career in IT or on a research degree, and part-time students already working in the IT sector.

Students who complete this degree will have gained specialist knowledge, which they will be able to use in analysis of problems arising in web information management, evaluation and application of technologies, and research into, and development of, new technologies.

Content

This degree consists of eight taught modules and a substantial project. Part-time students follow four taught modules in each of the two years, and undertake the project during the second year.

At least five modules and the project must be taken in the area of web information management (WIM). Those WIM modules are:

• Advances in Data Management
• Component-Based Software Development
• Data Warehousing and Data Mining
• Search Engines and Web Navigation
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
• Semantic Web
• Internet and Web Technologies.

A maximum of three modules may be chosen from:

• Advanced Applications
• Computational Intelligence and Visualisation
• Image-Based Information Processing
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

Please note: not all of the above modules may be offered each year, although at least five WIM modules will always be offered.

Click here to find out more about these modules.

Teaching

Lectures, laboratory sessions, and coursework completed in your own time.

Assessment

Coursework, written examinations and a project.

When to apply

• Applications should be submitted as early as possible.

Study resources

As a student, you will have 24-hour access to several laboratories of networked PCs with a range of language compilers, databases and other application software. The School of Computer Science and Information Systems is connected, via the SuperJANET network, to the computers of other academic institutions in London, elsewhere in the UK and abroad.

Special features

The degree has a significant research element, as several of the modules include study and discussion of recent research advances.

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