MIT OpenCourseWare: New Courses with Video and Audio Content

6.01SC Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science I (MIT)

Kaelbling, Leslie — 2012-02-13T15:10:04+05:00

Includes audio/video content: AV lectures. This course provides an integrated introduction to electrical engineering and computer science, taught using substantial laboratory experiments with mobile robots. Our primary goal is for you to learn to appreciate and use the fundamental design principles of modularity and abstraction in a variety of contexts from electrical engineering and computer science. Our second goal is to show you that making mathematical models of real systems can help in the design and analysis of those systems. Finally, we have the more typical goals of teaching exciting and important basic material from electrical engineering and computer science, including modern software engineering, linear systems analysis, electronic circuits, and decision-making.

14.01SC Principles of Microeconomics (MIT)

Gruber, Jonathan — 2012-02-10T13:49:24+05:00

Includes audio/video content: AV lectures. 14.01 Principles of Microeconomics is an introductory undergraduate course that teaches the fundamentals of microeconomics. This course introduces microeconomic concepts and analysis, supply and demand analysis, theories of the firm and individual behavior, competition and monopoly, and welfare economics. Students will also be introduced to the use of microeconomic applications to address problems in current economic policy throughout the semester.

18.03SC Differential Equations (MIT)

Mattuck, Arthur — 2012-02-08T14:08:08+05:00

Includes audio/video content: AV lectures. The laws of nature are expressed as differential equations. Scientists and engineers must know how to model the world in terms of differential equations, and how to solve those equations and interpret the solutions. This course focuses on the equations and techniques most useful in science and engineering.

MAS.771 Autism Theory and Technology (MIT)

Picard, Rosalind W. — 2012-02-01T10:05:32+05:00

Includes audio/video content: AV selected lectures. This course illuminates current theories about autism together with challenges faced by people on the autism spectrum. Theories in communicating, interacting socially, managing cognitive and affective overload, and achieving independent lifestyles are covered. In parallel, the course presents state-of-the-art technologies being developed for helping improve both theoretical understanding and practical outcomes. Participants are expected to meet and interact with people on the autism spectrum. Weekly reading, discussion, and a term project are required.

18.06SC Linear Algebra (MIT)

Strang, Gilbert — 2012-01-24T16:18:50+05:00

Includes audio/video content: AV lectures. This course covers matrix theory and linear algebra, emphasizing topics useful in other disciplines such as physics, economics and social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering.

21M.380 Music and Technology: Live Electronics Performance Practices (MIT)

Ariza, Christopher — 2012-01-05T14:55:22+05:00

Includes audio/video content: AV special element video. This course is a creative, hands-on exploration of contemporary and historical approaches to live electronics performance and improvisation, including basic analog instrument design, computer synthesis programming, and hardware and software interface design.

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems (MIT)

Amarasinghe, Saman — 2011-12-22T16:54:49+05:00

Includes audio/video content: AV lectures. Modern computing platforms provide unprecedented amounts of raw computational power. But significant complexity comes along with this power, to the point that making useful computations exploit even a fraction of the potential of the computing platform is a substantial challenge. Indeed, obtaining good performance requires a comprehensive understanding of all layers of the underlying platform, deep insight into the computation at hand, and the ingenuity and creativity required to obtain an effective mapping of the computation onto the machine. The reward for mastering these sophisticated and challenging topics is the ability to make computations that can process large amount of data orders of magnitude more quickly and efficiently and to obtain results that are unavailable with standard practice. This class is a hands-on, project-based introduction to building scalable and high-performance software systems. Topics include performance analysis, algorithmic techniques for high performance, instruction-level optimizations, cache and memory hierarchy optimization, parallel programming, and building scalable distributed systems. The course also includes design reviews with industry mentors, as described in this MIT News article.

2.71 Optics (MIT)

Barbastathis, George — 2011-12-22T16:51:39+05:00

Includes audio/video content: AV lectures. This course provides an introduction to optical science with elementary engineering applications. Topics covered in geometrical optics include: ray-tracing, aberrations, lens design, apertures and stops, radiometry and photometry. Topics covered in wave optics include: basic electrodynamics, polarization, interference, wave-guiding, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, image formation, resolution, space-bandwidth product. Analytical and numerical tools used in optical design are emphasized. Graduate students are required to complete assignments with stronger analytical content, and an advanced design project.

HST.184 Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Settings (MIT)

Fraser, Hamish — 2011-12-19T16:12:49+05:00

Includes audio/video content: AV lectures. This course is a collaborative offering of Sana, Partners in Health, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The goal of this course is the development of innovations in information systems for developing countries that will (1) translate into improvement in health outcomes, (2) strengthen the existing organizational infrastructure, and (3) create a collaborative ecosystem to maximize the value of these innovations. The course will be taught by guest speakers who are internationally recognized experts in the field and who, with their operational experiences, will outline the challenges they faced and detail how these were addressed.