United States Courses & Certifications

Stanford Seminar - Bugs in Crypto Implementations

Examines how implementation mistakes undermine authenticated encryption through case studies of Apple RNCryptor, WEP’s ChopChop attack, and iMessage.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar: Computational Ecosystems

Examines computational ecosystems as integrative HCI solutions for scaling human values, community-informed planning, and self-directed research training.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Antisocial Computing

An empirical HCI seminar on how mood, context, and negative feedback can turn ordinary users into trolls and intensify antisocial behavior online.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Neuromorphic Chips - Addressing the Nanostransistor Challenge

Explores how neuromorphic chips combine subthreshold analog dendritic computation with asynchronous digital axonal communication to address nanoscale transistor failures.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Time Traveling Hardware and Software Systems

Explore physiological time, a time-traveling approach to scalable cache coherence and database concurrency control.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Concepts and Questions as Programs

Explores program induction and synthesis as models for human-like concept learning and rich question asking, with applications to handwritten characters and recursive visual concepts.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Can the Brain Do Back-Propagation?

A research seminar on how biological neural systems might overcome objections to using backpropagation, including supervision, temporal derivatives, STDP, and feedback alignment.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Micro but Mighty- Microbots in a Macro World

This seminar examines ant-inspired microrobots that use controllable adhesion, specialized actuators, and coordinated teams to move loads far larger than themselves.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption

Zone management organizes established enterprises into performance, productivity, incubation, and transformation zones to catch the next wave of disruptive innovation.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - QED and Symbolic QED- Dramatic Improvements in SoC Validation and Debug

A seminar on Quick Error Detection and Symbolic QED for reducing SoC error-detection latency, increasing bug coverage, and localizing difficult hardware bugs.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Programming Should Be More Than Coding

Explore how specifications, mathematical models, and clear thinking shape programming before code is written, with examples from Euclid’s algorithm, TLA+, and concurrent systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Dynamic Code Optimization and the NVIDIA Denver Processor

Explores how NVIDIA Denver uses dynamic code optimization and binary translation to simplify microarchitecture while improving ARM processor performance.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Less Is More - How to Use Simple Rules for Better Results

Explores how simple rules and streamlined decision processes can help established companies innovate continuously and turn strategy into growth.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

How to Cultivate Creativity Using Design Thinking

Learn to cultivate individual creativity through design thinking, overcoming mental blocks, brainstorming effectively, selecting ideas, and creating spaces that support innovative problem-solving.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Scaling Up Without Screwing Up - Robert Sutton

Learn how leaders spread pockets of excellence across organizations by building accountability, connecting people, managing complexity, and turning desired mindsets into behavior.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course