Gone are the days when computer science used to be just about making complex games or hacking into top-secret archives. In this Digital Age, computers have become a part of our daily lives in just about everything. So let us explore some new and upcoming courses in computer science.
1. Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Artificial Intelligence is all about creating software and machines that exhibit intelligent behavior. The technology is contributing towards cancer research and intelligent web searching. To be an AI expert you need to have basics in Probability, Statistics, Linear Algebra, and excellent reasoning and problem-solving skills. Machine Learning is the course that has brought us self-driving cars, speech recognition and effective web search. Few universities might offer you a specialization in the last year of the CS course at the undergrad level. Else by and large the course is offered at the post grad level.
2. Data Science: There are huge resources of data in the world that have piled up over the decades. That information is useless if you expect for it to lie around. Data scientists use those large resources of data, organize it so that we can make intelligent and smart decisions for the future. Data scientists use the large resources of publicly available data to make predictions about public health, and diseases, predictive analysis for businesses. Quite a few universities and institutions have shot up offering the data science studies as a bachelor or an engineering degree. Else doing masters in data science is highly desirable.
3. Cyber Forensics: Today, a cyber forensic expert can cull and analyse every kind of evidence from cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), SIM cards, iPods and other devices. They can retrieve any kind of data from these devices, even if the information is deleted. A graduate in Computer Science, Information Technology or Computer Applications is most eligible for Cyber Forensics courses in India. A Cyber Forensics professional needs to pursue a post-graduation in Cyber Forensics or a certification in Information or Cyber Security.
4. Internet of Things: IoT connects all your devices via the Internet for remote sensing and control. IoT uses a combination of Wireless Sensor Network, Machine to Machine, Robotics, Wireless Networking, Internet technologies, and Smart Devices.
5. Game Design and Development: Game Design and Development is creating, developing and designing video or online games. The gaming industry is booming all over the world. The advent of smartphones has revolutionized the business of video games. The interest of the students has increased in this field to such an extent that now they do not just want to be limited to playing video games, but are also looking at the career prospects in gaming. This boom in the gaming sector has also increased the demand for game designers worldwide. Keeping this in view, many universities and colleges are offering different level of courses in game design.
6. Ethical Hacking: An ethical hacker is a computer and networking expert who systematically, legitimately and with the permission of the organisation investigates and detects vulnerabilities in a system or network for weak points that could be exploited by malicious hacker.
7. Cloud Computing Specialist: Cloud Computing Specialist maintains complex network design and helps companies to move their services into the digital cloud.
8. Animators: Animators are artists who specialize in art of creating animated pictures using animation software or CGI.
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