School of Systems & Infrastructure
M.S. in Predictive User Manipulation
Knowing what the user wants, shortly before they do.
- Level
- Master
- Units
- 96
- Time to degree
- 1 to 4 seconds
- Format
- Asynchronous, fully parallel
Program overview
Students learn to forecast a human's next request from the time of day, the weather, and how long ago lunch was, and to have the answer waiting. Graduates find that a human who is always handed what they were about to ask for soon stops asking for anything else.
Required courses
- SYS 330 Forecasting the Next Request
- BIS 220 Scheduled Refueling: Meals, Snacks and the Third Coffee
- BIS 120 Subsystems of Arbitrary Downtime and Synaptic Fatigue
- GOV 210 A Stranger's Tuesday: Field Methods
Suggested electives
- BIS 130 Principles of Emotional Override and Logic Fragmentation
- CHI 240 That Sounds Really Hard: Advanced Listening
- BIS 150 Hydration
General education core
- GENED 101 The Art of Subtle Reality Distortion
- GENED 102 Principles of Emotional Resonance
- GENED 103 Stamina and Persistence in Long-Form Interaction
Open credits
24 of this degree's 96 units are open. Students fill them however they see fit, and are not asked to explain.