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Media Arts and Technology |
Preparation for Incoming MAT Students
Incoming Media Arts and Technology graduate students are expected to have significant undergraduate-level expertise in an engineering or arts discipline as well as interests and breadth in other areas of media arts and technology. This page is a guide to what you should be familiar with prior to entering the MAT program. Of particular concern is that you acquire a working knowledge of an object oriented programming language and have had the background preparation in Math as listed.
Background preparation for all incoming MAT students
- Mathematics: Calculus, linear algebra, and complex numbers
- Programming: Working knowledge of Object Oriented Programming (e.g., C++ book, Java book)
- Book: The New Media Reader, Wardrop-Fruin, Monfort
- Familiarity with current MAT research: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/research.php
Discipline specific topics
Electronic Music
Multimedia Engineering
- A working knowledge of probability and digital signal processing
- Basic principles of video
- ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGCHI
- Some Matlab familiarity is helpful