<P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 includes post-link - time code transformation algorithm development and new operating system development . </P> <P> Computational Science and Engineering is a relatively new discipline . According to the Sloan Career Cornerstone Center, individuals working in this area, "computational methods are applied to formulate and solve complex mathematical problems in engineering and the physical and the social sciences . Examples include aircraft design, the plasma processing of nanometer features on semiconductor wafers, VLSI circuit design, radar detection systems, ion transport through biological channels, and much more". </P> <P> In this specialty, engineers build integrated environments for computing, communications, and information access . Examples include shared - channel wireless networks, adaptive resource management in various systems, and improving the quality of service in mobile and ATM environments . Some other examples include work on wireless network systems and fast Ethernet cluster wired systems . </P>

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