New courses in all departments from MIT OpenCourseWare, provider of free and open MIT course materials. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ 2020-09-04T12:52:38+05:00 MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu en-US Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is an introduction to the problems of philosophy—in particular, to problems in ethics, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of logic, language, and science. It takes a systematic rather than historical approach. Readings come from classical and contemporary sources, but emphasis is on examination and evaluation of proposed solutions to the problems. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-00-problems-of-philosophy-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Schoenfield, Miriam 2020-08-27T20:16:59+05:00 24.00 en-US God free will good bad race gender ethics faith subjectivism objectivism panpsychism determinism moral responsibility personal identity meaning of life time travel MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm 8.962 is MIT's graduate course in general relativity, which covers the basic principles of Einstein's general theory of relativity, differential geometry, experimental tests of general relativity, black holes, and cosmology.  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-962-general-relativity-spring-2020 Spring 2020 Hughes, Scott 2020-08-26T14:12:46+05:00 8.962 en-US relativity general relativity special relativity linearized general relativity spacetime Einstein's equation E = mc2 gravitation gravitational waves gravitational lensing cosmology Schwarzschild solution black holes MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This self-paced course was originally designed to help prepare incoming MIT students for their first Introductory Biology Course (known at MIT as 7.01). It will also be useful for anyone preparing to take an equivalent college-level introductory biology class elsewhere. It includes lecture videos, interactive exercises, problem sets, and one exam.  Lecture Topics: Molecules of Life, The Cell and How it Works, Information Transfer in Biology, Inheritance and Genetics, and Building with DNA.Go to OCW’s Open Learning Library site for Pre-7.01: Getting up to Speed in Biology. The site is free to use, just like all OCW sites. You have the option to sign up and enroll in the course if you want to track your progress, or you can view and use all the materials without enrolling.       https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-7-001-pre-7-01-getting-up-to-speed-in-biology-summer-2019 Summer 2019 Ray, Diviya Sive, Hazel 2020-08-21T15:02:01+05:00 en-US MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This is the second part of the two-course series on algebraic topology. Topics include basic homotopy theory, obstruction theory, classifying spaces, spectral sequences, characteristic classes, and Steenrod operations. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-906-algebraic-topology-ii-spring-2020 Spring 2020 Miller, Haynes 2020-08-11T15:45:49+05:00 18.906 en-US homotopy cohomology classifying spaces spectral sequences cofibrations serre fibrations Steenrod operations cohomology operations cobordism cobordism MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language, providing opportunities to acquire basic skills for conversation, reading, and writing in Japanese. The program emphasizes active command of Japanese, not passive knowledge. Your goal is not simply to study the grammar and vocabulary, but to gain skills necessary to use them in a linguistically and culturally appropriate way. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-languages/21g-501-japanese-i-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Aikawa, Takako Ikeda-Lamm, Masami Maekawa, Wakana Rafique, Emiko 2020-08-03T15:02:31+05:00 21G.501 21G.551 en-US Japanese Japanese language nihongo katakana hiragana kanji genki MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This seminar examines the problems of ethics in an engineering context by investigating case studies informed by foundational thinkers in ethics.  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemical-engineering/10-01-ethics-for-engineers-spring-2020 Spring 2020 Trout, Bernhardt Doneson, Daniel 2020-07-21T13:27:18+05:00 10.01 1.082 2.900 22.014 6.904 16.676 en-US chemical engineering ethics virtues vices product safety environment human health biotechnology engineering society law politics modern politics science education arts technology fortune necessity justice progress economics utilitarianism Kant Hobbes Aristotle Benjamin Franklin Tocqueville Rousseau bioethics Machiavelli MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This introductory undergraduate course covers the fundamentals of microeconomics. Topics include supply and demand, market equilibrium, consumer theory, production and the behavior of firms, monopoly, oligopoly, welfare economics, public goods, and externalities.  Chalk Radio Podcast Prof. Jonathan Gruber was featured in an episode of OpenCourseWare's podcast, Chalk Radio. In the episode "Thinking Like an Economist," Prof. Gruber talks about how he engages students in 14.01 with accessible real world examples. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts.   https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-01-principles-of-microeconomics-fall-2018 Fall 2018 Gruber, Jonathan 2020-07-16T20:12:26+05:00 14.01 en-US microeconomics supply and demand market equilibirum consumer theory production monopoly oligopoly welfare economics public goods externalities MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This subject examines the role scientists have played as activists in social movements in the U.S. following World War II. Themes include scientific responsibility and social justice, the roles of gender, race, and power, the motivation of individual scientists, strategies for organizing, and scientists’ impact within social movements. Case studies include atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and the nuclear freeze campaign, climate science and environmental justice, the civil rights movement, Vietnam War protests, the March 4 movement at MIT, concerns about genetic engineering, gender equality, intersectional feminism, and student activism at MIT. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-160j-science-activism-gender-race-and-power-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Bertschinger, Edmund 2020-06-29T13:58:14+05:00 WGS.160J STS.021J en-US gender race power science activism nuclear weapons environmentalism climate change civil rights Vietnam War genetic engineering intersectional feminism student activism MIT MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course introduces quantitative approaches to understanding brain and cognitive functions. Topics include mathematical description of neurons, the response of neurons to sensory stimuli, simple neuronal networks, statistical inference and decision making. It also covers foundational quantitative tools of data analysis in neuroscience: correlation, convolution, spectral analysis, principal components analysis, and mathematical concepts including simple differential equations and linear algebra. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-40-introduction-to-neural-computation-spring-2018 Spring 2018 Fee, Michale Zysman, Daniel 2020-06-26T17:37:54+05:00 9.40 en-US timescale of diffusion length scales Fick's First Law Ohm's Law and resistivity charge drift neurons injected currents membrane capacitance RC model differential equations Integrate and Fire model batteries of neuron circuit diagram HH Model voltage clamp time dependence potassium current conductance Hodgkin-Huxley gating variables sodium channel dendrite leaky dendrite non-leaky dendrite length constant dendritic radius electrotonic length two-compartment model equivalent circuit model synaptic transmission convolution linear kernel spike train synaptic saturation somatic inhibition dendritic inhibition extracellular spike waveforms local field potentials local field potentials spike signals low-pass high-pass threshold crossing peri-stimulus time histogram PSTH firing rate smoothing spike train linear filter Spatio-temporal Receptive Field STRF Spike Triggered Average Poisson Process Fano Factor Interspike Interval ISI convolution cross-correlation autocorrelation Fourier series complex fourier series fourier transform discrete fourier transform Fast Fourier Transform FFT power spectrum Fourier transform pairs Gaussian Noise Spectral estimation Shannon-Nyquist Theorem zero padding line noise removal windows and tapers spectrograms multi-taper spectral analysis DPSS filtering methods rate model vector notation vector algebra perceptrons neuronal logic linear separability invariance two-layer feedforward networks matrix algebra matrix transformations linear independence eigenvectors eigenvalues covariance matrix Principal Components Analysis PCA recurrent networks autapse networks storing memories decision-making winner-take-all Hopfield network capacity long-term memory short-term memory energy landscape MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course introduces the Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model (D4M), a breakthrough in computer programming that combines graph theory, linear algebra, and databases to address problems associated with Big Data. Search, social media, ad placement, mapping, tracking, spam filtering, fraud detection, wireless communication, drug discovery, and bioinformatics all attempt to find items of interest in vast quantities of data. This course teaches a signal processing approach to these problems by combining linear algebraic graph algorithms, group theory, and database design. This approach has been implemented in software. The class will begin with a number of practical problems, introduce the appropriate theory, and then apply the theory to these problems. Students will apply these ideas in the final project of their choosing. The course will contain a number of smaller assignments which will prepare the students with appropriate software infrastructure for completing their final projects. https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-ll-005-mathematics-of-big-data-and-machine-learning-january-iap-2020 January IAP 2020 Kepner, Jeremy Gadepally, Vijay 2020-06-25T12:22:34+05:00 en-US machine learning big data artificial intelligence AI data analytics data processing dynamic distributed dimensional data model D4M associate arrays group theory entity analysis perfect Power Law bio sequence correlation Accumulo Kronecker graphs MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course introduces the ethnographic study of politics, i.e., what anthropologists understand to be "political" in various social and economic systems, from small-scale societies to liberal democratic states. It examines politics across three contemporary contexts: electoral politics, public spheres, bureaucracies and humanitarian governance. Students consider and analyze how questions of authority, coercion, and violence have been theorized to relate to the political, and how some aspects of social life are regimented in explicitly non-political ways. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-506-the-anthropology-of-politics-persuasion-and-power-spring-2019 Spring 2019 Cherkaev, Xenia 2020-06-12T10:47:44+05:00 21A.506 en-US politics persuasion power electoral politics public spheres bureaucracy humanitarian governance authority coercion violence language labor political rhetoric publics imagined states society MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course surveys the history of 19th- and 20th-century Africa. It focuses on the European conquest of Africa and the dynamics of colonial rule, especially its socioeconomic and cultural consequences. It looks at how the rising tide of African nationalism, in the form of labor strikes and guerrilla wars, ushered out colonialism. It also examines the postcolonial states, focusing on the politics of development, recent civil wars in countries like Rwanda and Liberia, the AIDS epidemic, and the history of apartheid in South Africa up to 1994. Finally, it surveys the entrepreneurship in the post-colonial period and China's recent involvement in Africa. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-165-modern-african-history-spring-2019 Spring 2019 Mutongi, Kenda 2020-06-12T10:47:07+05:00 21H.165 en-US Sub-Saharan Africa colonial rule African nationalism labor strikes guerilla warfare politics civil war Rwanda Liberia AIDS China forced labor taxation capitalism segregation South Africa gender decolonization Mau Mau apartheid MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm All languages vary across geographic space and between social groups, and languages are always changing. It makes sense to study these phenomena together because they are intimately related: language change is the basic source of language variation. So studying language change can help us to understand variation, and the nature of linguistic variation provides evidence as to how language changes. Both illuminate the nature of grammar. The course will focus largely on variation and change in phonetics and phonology, and most case studies will be drawn from the English language. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-914-language-variation-and-change-spring-2019 Spring 2019 Flemming, Edward 2020-06-01T19:41:47+05:00 24.914 en-US language variation lexical variation language change dialects historical linguistics sociolinguistics phonetics syntax vowel contrast vowel merger MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm The Climate 101 presentation was developed by Brandon Leshchinskiy in collaboration with Professor Dava Newman, MIT Portugal, and EarthDNA in an effort to mobilize young people as educators on the issue of climate change. The presentation addresses not only the science but also the economics and civics of climate change, incorporating a negotiation activity that brings key concepts to life. This resource includes the slides and instructions for the presentation, along with an introductory video from Prof. Newman, a video of Leshchinskiy actually delivering the presentation to a classroom full of students, and extensive supporting materials that will help users to become climate ambassadors and deliver the Climate 101 presentation themselves. https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-env-003-earthdnas-climate-101-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Leshchinskiy, Brandon Newman, Dava 2020-06-01T19:41:15+05:00 en-US climate change education public policy presentations global warming carbon emissions MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Students further develop their skills in Japanese speaking, listening, reading, and writing in this intermediate language course. This course involves continued vocabulary and kanji building. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-languages/21g-503-japanese-iii-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Aikawa, Takako Ikeda-Lamm, Masami Maekawa, Wakana Rafique, Emiko 2020-06-01T13:12:05+05:00 21G.503 en-US Japanese intermediate Japanese Japanese dialogue Japanese vocabulary foreign language Asian language Asia Asian culture Kanji MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores connections between what we eat and who we are through cross-cultural study of how personal and collective identities, social relations, and economic inequalities are formed and maintained via practices of food production, preparation, and consumption. Discussions are organized around critical discussion of what makes "good" food good (tasty, healthy, authentic, ethical, etc.), and draw on anthropological studies as well as recent writing and films on the politics of food and agriculture. A primary goal of the course is to provide students with conceptual tools to understand and evaluate food systems at local and global levels. Instruction and practice in written and oral communication is provided.   https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-155-food-culture-politics-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Paxson, Heather 2020-05-29T11:37:44+05:00 21A.155 en-US food culture politics waste taste good food food preparation food consumption economy Thanksgiving agriculture hunger nutrition medicine gastropolitics MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course introduces diverse meanings and uses of the concept of culture with historical and contemporary examples from scholarship and popular media around the globe. It includes first-hand observations, synthesized histories and ethnographies, quantitative representations, and visual and fictionalized accounts of human experiences. Students conduct empirical research on cultural differences through the systematic observation of human interaction, employ methods of interpretative analysis, and practice convincing others of the accuracy of their findings. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-01-how-culture-works-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Cherkaev, Xenia 2020-05-26T14:18:10+05:00 21A.01 en-US culture family things creation circulation persons agents selves possessions ethnography MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course analyzes seminal work directed at the development of a computational understanding of human intelligence, such as work on learning, language, vision, event representation, commonsense reasoning, self reflection, story understanding, and analogy. It reviews visionary ideas of Turing, Minsky, and other influential thinkers and examines the implications of work on brain scanning, developmental psychology, and cognitive psychology. There is an emphasis on discussion and analysis of original papers; students taking the graduate version complete additional exercises and a substantial term project. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-803-the-human-intelligence-enterprise-spring-2019 Spring 2019 Winston, Patrick Henry 2020-05-14T15:40:32+05:00 6.803 6.833 en-US artificial intelligence human intelligence cognition emotion consciousness communication perception computational models learning language vision reasoning event representation analogy MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course examines classical and modern developments in graph theory and additive combinatorics, with a focus on topics and themes that connect the two subjects. The course also introduces students to current research topics and open problems. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-217-graph-theory-and-additive-combinatorics-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Zhao, Yufei 2020-05-12T17:36:18+05:00 18.217 en-US graph theory additive combinatorics Ramsey theory Schur’s theorem Mantel’s theorem Turán’s theorem Erdős-Stone-Simonovits theorem Kővári-Sós-Turán theorem Szemerédi’s graph regularity lemma triangle counting lemma triangle removal lemma Roth’s theorem hypergraph removal lemma Green-Tao theorem martingale convergence theorem Freiman’s theorem Ruzsa triangle inequality Ruzsa covering lemma Balog-Szémeredi-Gowers theorem Szemerédi-Trotter theorem MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm 7.016 Introductory Biology provides an introduction to fundamental principles of biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics for understanding the functions of living systems. Taught for the first time in Fall 2013, this course covers examples of the use of chemical biology and twenty-first-century molecular genetics in understanding human health and therapeutic intervention. The MIT Biology Department Introductory Biology courses 7.012, 7.013, 7.014, 7.015, and 7.016 all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principles of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology. Biological function at the molecular level is particularly emphasized and covers the structure and regulation of genes, as well as the structure and synthesis of proteins, how these molecules are integrated into cells, and how these cells are integrated into multicellular systems and organisms. In addition, each version of the subject has its own distinctive material. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-016-introductory-biology-fall-2018 Fall 2018 Imperiali, Barbara Martin, Adam Ray, Diviya 2020-05-12T13:01:52+05:00 7.016 en-US biochemistry molecular biology genetics human genetics pedigrees biochemical genetics molecular biology chemical biology molecular genetics recombinant DNA technology cell biology cancer viruses HIV bacteria antibiotics human health therapeutic intervention cell signaling evolution reproduction infectious diseases therapeutics MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm