The American University in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt
http://www.aucegypt.edu/

Public Finance

Application of efficiency criteria to political decision making: allocation of resources to social goods, tax and subsidy correctives for externalities, minimizing excess burden of financing government activity. Equity criteria for tax systems and income distribution. Analysis of Egypt’s public finances and evaluation of Egyptian public policy....
 

The course offers a general treatment of modern theoretical and empirical labor economics. Topics to be covered include: operations of labor markets; wage determination; firm, industry and public sector labor demand; human capital investment; race and gender employment and wage discrimination; public policy effects. The relation of labor market outcomes and attendant public policy to poverty, i......
 

Theories of economic evolution with a special focus on Europe. Includes analyses of technological change, property rights systems and economic growth, and income distribution. Examines the transition from feudalism to capitalism, first and second industrial revolutions, the 20th century Great Depression and the reconstruction of the world economies after World War II....
 

The course covers the general theory of estimation. Topics include: sampling distributions, testing hypotheses about the difference between two means, analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation and simple regression analysis, nonparametric statistics including Chi-squared & Index numbers....
 

Calculus of a single variable. Composite functions, limits and asymptotes, continuity, differentiation, Taylor’s theorem, maxima and minima and points of inflexion, logarithmic and exponential functions, integration. Applications to economic theory and business finance....
 

Fundamental economic concepts and methods of economic analysis with emphasis on macroeconomic issues. Analyzes aggregate economic activity in relation to the level, stability and growth of national income. Topics analyzed include the determination and effects of national income, consumption, investment, unemployment, inflation, interest rates, and how these may be influenced by monetary, fiscal......
 

Introduction to robotic applications and research, spatial representation, robot kinematics, jacobian matrix, motion trajectory, sensor and data fusion, sensor placement, imaging for robotics, object identification, wireless communication. Micro-controllers, real-time operating systems and computer interfacing....
 

Advanced topics in modern microprocessor microarchitecture especially as they relate to systems and applications software. Modern “core�CPU design: Instruction Level Parallelism, (ILP: Instruction Level Parallelism via software), Dynamic Instruction Level Parallelism by hardware (Dynamic scheduling, Superscaling, Reservation stations, Instruction Reordering buffers, Speculative instruction exe......
 

Basic concepts on artificial neural networks, non-symbolic vs symbolic information learning systems. Unsupervised learning networks, supervised learning networks, neural network hardware. Evolutionary computations, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, genetic programming. Hybrid systems integrating classical AI techniques with biologically-based techniques, and some applications....
 

Measures of the complexity of algorithms. Amortized complexity. Greedy algorithms. Dynamic programming. NP-Completeness and lower-bound theory. Cook’s Theorem. Techniques for proving problems NP-complete. Complexity of parallel algorithms. Well-parallelizable and hardly-parallelizable problems....
 

Problem spaces and application areas in engineering and science. LISP or PROLOG programming. AI architecture, knowledge representation, hierarchical planning. Machine learning and Connectionist models. Parallel and distributed AI. Object-oriented Knowledge representations. Students will use an AI programming language to solve some of the famous AI problems....
 

Introduction to the Web as a platform, the Web as an n-tier client-server architecture, basic components of a web-based application, developing static and dynamic web pages. Enhancing Web pages using Scripting languages. Developing Web-based applications. Using Server-extension techniques and tools. Introduction to XML and its associated technologies. Emerging technologies and tools on the web.......
 

Overview of graphic systems and interactive devices. Output primitives and their attributes. Two-dimensional transformations, segments, windowing, and clipping. Introduction to three-dimensional representation and viewing....
 

Advanced relational database theory: functional dependencies, multivalued dependencies, join dependencies, inclusion dependencies. System catalog implementation, query optimization techniques, transaction processing, concurrency control, database security, backup and recovery strategies. Advanced data modeling (e.g. object-oriented databases), distributed and client server architectures, and fu......
 

This course introduces the main security problems found in contemporary systems and addresses how such problems are introduced and how we may work towards their eradication. The course enables students to treat security issues as an important and integral part of system design and development. It also provides them with a solid understanding of the basic ideas and techniques used in assessing a......
 

Principles and practices in the design of compilers. Lexical analysis. Syntax analysis, top-down and bottom-up parsing. Syntax-directed translation and syntax trees. Declarations, types, and symbol management. Run-time environments, storage organization, parameter passing, dynamic storage allocation. Intermediate languages and intermediate code generation. Code generation and optimization....
 

Fundamentals of computer security. Identification and authentication. Access control, different approaches for inclusion of a security kernel. Security in UNIX and Windows. How security is broken and how it is evaluated. Distributed systems security, World Wide Web security, and network security. Practical experience to be gained through an assigned project to evaluate the security of a real op......
 

Introduction to distributed systems. Modeling, specifications, consistency, fault tolerance, interprocess communication, network and distributed operating systems, distributed mutual exclusion, distributed deadlock detection, load balancing and process migration....
 

Introduction to LAN, MAN and WAN. Topologies and transmission media. Protocol Architecture and Logical Link Control. Traditional LANs. High-Speed Ethernet-Like LANs, FDDI. ATM LANs. Wireless LANs. Network performance and management. ...
 

Embedded processor architecture and programming, I/O and device driver interfaces to embedded processors with networks, video cards and disk drives. Using operating systems primitives for concurrency, timeouts, scheduling, communication and synchronization, Real-time resource management techniques, and application-level embedded system design concepts such as basic signal processing and feedbac......
 

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