English Courses

Replication Strategies for More Robust Human Simulation - Stanford Seminar

Examines how perturbation and iteration can expose validity and robustness problems in LLM simulations of human behavior.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

When Design Equals Planning - Computational Approaches to Robot Design

Shows how mapping robot design problems to robot planning can establish whether a task-achieving design exists and identify simpler designs.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Shaping the Future of AI from the History of Transformer Architectures - Stanford CS25

A historical view of Transformer development examines how cheaper compute reshaped architectures and offers a way to reason about AI’s direction.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Engineering Design Optimization - Linear Constrained Optimization

Learn to optimize engineering systems within a formal framework, with emphasis on multidisciplinary design optimization across linear and nonlinear problems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Integrating Interactive Devices with the User's Body

Explores interactive devices that integrate with the body to create new physical abilities and change how users experience control.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Towards Trusted Human-Centric Robot Autonomy - Stanford Seminar

Examines how legible, proactive robot motion can make human-robot interactions both safer and more fluent.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Can Privacy Exist in a Data-Driven World? - Stanford Seminar

Explores how people can understand and engage with personal data through tools for tracking transparency, studies of privacy perceptions, and collaborations with artists.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Improving Computational Efficiency for Powered Descent Guidance - Stanford Seminar

A transformer predicts tight constraints for Mars descent trajectories, cutting fuel-optimal guidance computation time by up to an order of magnitude while checking feasibility.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Democratizing Model Discovery with Neural Networks

A conversation on how neural networks can automate constitutive model discovery for soft materials, widening access beyond specialist modelers.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Insider's Guide to Clinical Trials

Examine real clinical trials to see what they did well, where they went wrong, and how they could be improved.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Forecasting Disruption: Assessing Technological Risks and Opportunities

Use forecasting to assess how emerging technologies could disrupt business models and shape strategic decisions.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Input with Deeply Custom Interfaces

Explores custom physical input devices designed for individual bodies and tasks, including ways to use existing objects as interfaces.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans in Computer Science - Lecture 2022

A lecture reveals how paired binary trees, Baxter permutations, and rectangular floorplans correspond through three algorithms.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Emerging Trends in Building Decarbonization

An overview of building decarbonization through both embodied and operational strategies.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Designing to Support Sense of Agency for Time Spent on Digital Interfaces

A YouTube interface study finds that a search-first Focus Mode can strengthen users’ sense of agency without reducing their time in the app.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video