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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere.
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT [1] is an engineering department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is regarded as one of the most prestigious in the world, [2] [3] and offers degrees of Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of ...
MIT Open Learning is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) organization, [1] [2] headed by Dimitris Bertsimas, [3] that oversees several MIT educational initiatives, such as MIT Open CourseWare, MITx, [4] MicroMasters, [5] MIT Bootcamps [6] and others.
This organization organized volunteers to translate foreign OpenCourseWare, mainly MIT OpenCourseWare into Chinese and to promote the application of OpenCourseWare in Chinese universities. In February 2008, 347 courses had been translated into Chinese and 245 of them were used by 200 professors in courses involving a total of 8,000 students.
Other initiatives derived from MIT OpenCourseWare are China Open Resources for Education and OpenCourseWare in Japan. The OpenCourseWare Consortium, founded in 2005 to extend the reach and impact of open course materials and foster new open course materials, counted more than 200 member institutions from around the world in 2009. [117]
The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and Institute for Data, Systems and Society were moved to the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing upon its creation, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is now administered jointly.
The architecture of the system also found use beyond MIT. The architecture of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) software from the Open Software Foundation was based on concepts pioneered by Athena. Subsequently, the Windows NT network operating system from Microsoft incorporates Kerberos and several other basic architecture design ...
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (MIT SHASS) has 13 departments, department-level programs, and faculties granting S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees. The current dean is professor of political science Melissa Nobles. The school teaches every MIT undergraduate — a total of about 4,500 students, each of whom takes a minimum of 8 ...