Ask YC: graduate courses

Have you picked a general focus of what you want to learn? It seems to me that it's less important which specific technologies you take classes in (for the most part) than determining which level you you like to work on. I think of it similar to programming languages: some people prefer "high-level" work, like application / UI design, or multimedia or image processing. "Low level" courses are going to be more about systems design, working with distributed / embedded systems, etc. It gets easier to choose once you've made that distinction.<p>You're asking about grad courses, so which CS classes have you already taken?

I have taken an undergraduate course called "Introduction to AI", and it so far deals with topics such as search, knowledge representation, game playing and so on...kind of a overview of most of the topics the prof said. At my university(San Jose State Uni), about 40 students have taken the xml and web intelligence course, which seems to be towards data mining and ontology. Also keep an eye out for vague topics, and go and speak to the prof and find out what he intends to cover during that semester.