Masters of Science (MSc) in Computer Science Acadia University

Develop your skills and experience in research and development in computing. Whether you’re looking to upgrade your employment options or advance towards a PhD program, Acadia's Master in Computer Science will help you achieve your goals.

By choosing Acadia's graduate program in computer science, you will increase the depth and breadth of your knowledge through additional coursework and study, and you will further develop your research skills through challenging projects and development of a thesis with your supervisor. You will benefit from our small class sizes and collaborative approach to research – developing a high degree of contact and collaboration with your supervisor and gaining skills by working with groups with fellow researchers. Many of our research projects are collaborative in nature, where you will be working and reflecting with your supervisors and groups of students while pursuing your own particular research project.

Research Interests

• Agent-based distributed systems applications
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomic computing
• Computer-supported co-operative work
• Data compression
• DBMS performance
• Distributed systems
• Graph theory algorithms
• Handheld and wireless technologies
• Intelligent agents and adaptive software systems
• Intelligent information retrieval and integration
• Knowledge management
• Logic theory and algorithms
• Machine learning
• User modelling and user adapted interfaces.