Computer Science course GROUP 2 PROJECT

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1. CSC PROJECT Application areas of software in computer engineering

2. What is a software? Software , instructions that tell a computer what to do. Software comprises the entire set of programs, procedures, and routines associated with the operation of a computer system. The term was coined to differentiate these instructions from hardware— i.e.,  the physical components of a computer system. A set of instructions that directs a computer’s hardware to perform a task is called a program, or software program. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

3. COMPUTER ENGINEERING Computer engineering  ( CoE  or  CpE ) is a branch of engineering that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering (or electrical engineering), software design, and hardware-software integration instead of only software engineering or electronic engineering. Computer engineers are involved in many hardware and software aspects of computing, from the design of individual microcontrollers, microprocessors, personal computers, and supercomputers, to circuit design. This field of engineering not only focuses on  how  computer systems themselves work but also how they integrate into the larger picture.

4. APPLICATION AREAS OF SOFTWARE IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY

5. 1. Safety-Critical Systems Software is becoming pervasive in areas such as transportation (avionics, automotive), health, and control (of nuclear plants, of railway signaling systems, of conflict detection system), where a failure or malfunction may be extremely damaging, even in terms of human life. The constraints for such safety-critical systems are extremely stringent: the systems must be able to function during extremely long period of times, in presence of human mistakes or hardware or software failures, and provide an acceptable level of services at all times. Thus, it is urgent to develop methods and tools that help support the development of such dependable software and its (quantitative) evaluation against the aforementioned constraints. To achieve this goal, it is important to build programming languages and software architectures that facilitate the development of fault-tolerant, resilient, and adaptable applications. One particular challenge is to scale existing methods so that they become effective in the context of distributed and networking systems

6. 2. Service Oriented Architectures Computer infrastructures are evolving towards highly distributed networks able to provide users with a uniform and global access to services. At the same time, selling services has become the biggest growth business in the IT industry. Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are an attempt to provide at the level of software the necessary support for effectively programming, deploying, and maintaining services over highly-distributed networks. SOAs draw from many areas of computer science, including software engineering, concurrent and distributed systems, mobile code, and modular and component-based programming. While these areas are well developed in isolation, there remain significant challenges to combine the methodologies that stem from each area in order to deliver cost-effective approaches that support the construction and deployment of electronic services.

7. 3. Security As our society increasingly relies on information technology, there is an urgent and unprecedented need to develop new security mechanisms for protecting infrastructures, data, and applications. Several concomitant factors aggravate the problems of information security. In order to face this challenge, one must provide scalable and rigorous techniques that can be integrated in prevailing software development processes to enforce security of applications. Since many attacks arise at application level, it is particularly important to achieve security at the level of programming languages, drawing from methods developed in programming language research (design, analysis, and verification), and developing security solutions at a level of abstraction that matches the programming language.

8. 4. Coding and Cryptography Computer engineers work in coding, cryptography, and information protection to develop new methods for protecting various information, such as digital images and music, fragmentation, copyright infringement and other forms of tampering. Examples include work on wireless communications, multi-antenna systems, optical transmission, and digital watermarking.

9. 5. Communications and wireless networks Those focusing on communications and wireless networks, work advancements in telecommunications systems and networks (especially wireless networks), modulation and error-control coding, and information theory. High-speed network design, interference suppression and modulation, design, and analysis of fault-tolerant system, and storage and transmission schemes are all a part of this specialty.

10. 6. Compilers and operating systems This specialty focuses on compilers and operating systems design and development. Engineers in this field develop new operating system architecture, program analysis techniques, and new techniques to assure quality. Examples of work in this field include post-link-time code transformation algorithm development and new operating system development.

11. 7. Signal, image and speech processing Computer engineers in this area develop improvements in human-computer interaction, including speech recognition and synthesis, medical and scientific imaging, or communications systems. Other work in this area includes computer vision development such as recognition of human facial features.

12. PRESENTED BY GROUP 2 GODSWILL UWEM ESSIEN-2020/9397 BADERO ADEOLA ADENIYI-2020/9390 ADEKOYA OLUWASEMILOGO AYOMISESEBERE-2020/9448 FAKUNLE TEMILOLUWA-2020/9077 AM0S ANTHONY-2020/8997