Computer Science - Smart Systems – (M.Sc.)

Smart Systems is a highly future-oriented Computer Science graduate program tightly integrated with research. The goal of the program is to take people with raw talent and intellect, nurture them in our environment through a thorough immersion in research and coursework, and produce well-educated researchers and future leaders in Computer Science. It integrates an in-depth training in core disciplines of computer science, especially computer networks and distributed systems, databases, web services, artificial intelligence, robotics, visualization and computer graphics, and the mathematics of complex systems.

As humans we can sense, act, speak, listen, decide and sometimes understand. The 21st century will witness technologies that can do the same. In addition to their well-established role as programmable machine-tools, robots are also more and more used in domains where some autonomy and intelligence is necessary. They work under conditions where the robot is not constantly supervised by a human operator and where it has to be adaptive as its developer can not fully predict which situations it will encounter in its application environment. We all know future descriptions of this kind, we also know that they are no longer science fiction.

Scientists and engineers who take an active role in creating such systems will have to master a highly diverse repertoire of professional techniques as a matter of course. A student in the Smart Systems graduate program aquires the necessary knowledge to work at the forefront of technological developments.