Computer Science - Future Networked Systems (M.Sc./P.Grad.Dip)

Course Overview

The course explores how software systems embedded in our everyday environments, connect every day objects and makes them smart. This ranges from mobile social networking to managing city resources such as road traffic. Dealing with such large-scale, cyber-physical and distributed systems requires novel approaches that address timeliness, safety, privacy and scale challenges. The course equips students with the skills and knowledge to tackle such challenges and take up careers in Computer Networking, Software Engineering and related fields, which have transformed society over the past 30 years and continue to enable new advances from Social Networking through the Internet of Things to Cloud Computing.

Applicants must provide the following:

English Language Requirements

All applicants whose first language is not English will be required to provide a certificate of proficiency in the English language. For this course, applicants are required to meet the Band B (Standard Entry) level as defined in the English Language Requirements page here.

Applications missing an English certificate may be rejected or experience delays in processing.

We expect graduates to be in high demand for high-end research and development positions within leading multinational companies and startups alike. Previous graduates have gone on to work in Software Engineering, Financial Technology and other computing related companies including Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Jaguar Land Rover, Citi and Genesys. In some cases, our graduates have gone on to further postgraduate research, taking up funded PhD positions at Trinity or other universities in Ireland abroad.