This course provides the students with research experience. It exposes the students to team work, problem solving skills, research skills and project management.   Students will work in small groups on a synergistic project that covers at least two of the areas in computer science, such as the following: Applications, Programming Languages and Systems and Theory. This will promote depth of study in at least two different areas of computer science for the students.

This course exposes students to the mechanics of computer science research. At the Completion of the course, students will have the knowledge and skills to undertake a challenging research project;

• Identifying and analyzing the problem,
• Formulating and evaluating solutions,
• and communicating the outcomes orally and and in the form of a technical report.

Project (90%); Presentation (10%)

As many hours as necessary for meetings with supervisors and a nominal 10 hours per week

Enrolment in BCS(Hons) or PhB or BE (R&D); 12 units of 3000-series COMP courses.