The demand for specialists with the depth of knowledge and the skills required to help design, deploy and use the technologies through which systems can operate in networks and in a distributed way is soaring.
Distributed and networked computation is now the paradigm that underpins the software-enabled systems are proliferating in the modern world, with huge impact in the economy and society, from the sensor and actuator networks that are now connecting cities, to cyberphysical systems, to patient-centred healthcare, to disaster-recovery systems.
Our advanced Masters programme is aimed at graduates who already have a background in computer science or engineering and who wish to specialise in the area of networks and distributed systems.
You will be taught by world-leading experts in the area, and you will have a wide range of elective to choose from – including modules in cybersecurity, large-scale data storage and processing, and artificial intelligence – so that you can tailor your degree according to your preference.
Facilities include a laboratory where you can experiment with physical devices that can be interconnected in a network, and a cluster facility configured to run the Hadoop MapReduce stack.
Royal Holloway is recognised for its research excellence in Machine Learning, Information Security, and Global Ubiquitous Computing. We work closely with companies such as Centrica (British Gas, Hive), Cognizant, Orange Labs (UK), the UK Cards Association, Transport for London and ITSO.
The programme is offered with or without a paid industrial placement (internship).
The programme can be taken part-time over up to five years, but without a placement.
Opportunities for on-campus part-time work are available.
