English Courses

Urban Interaction: Notes on Human-Computer Interaction in Cities - Stanford Seminar

Explores how culture, scale, and engagement shape technology interaction in everyday urban life through three ongoing research initiatives.

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

Understanding Social Media's Role in Mental Health: Causal Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Pathways

A research talk traces how longitudinal social media data and causal methods reveal both supportive and harmful effects on mental health.

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

Top Skills of a Product Manager and How to Develop Them

Product managers’ key skills are illustrated through real applications, career transitions, and ways to develop those capabilities.

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

General Relativity Lecture Collection

Explore Einstein’s view of gravity as spacetime curvature, from curved geometry and black holes to the universe’s Big Bang origins.

• YouTube
• 17 hours 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Transformers that Transform Well Enough to Support Near-Shallow Architectures - Stanford CS25 Lecture

Precision language models use specialized self-attention and non-random initialization to train efficiently on limited resources and run as microprocessor-based device controllers.

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

Embrace the Future: Harnessing Water for Circular Economies

See how technologies can turn used water into valuable products and make water management a driver of sustainability and innovation across industries.

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

Wearing a VR Headset While Driving to Improve Vehicle Safety

A real car runs within simulated traffic, letting researchers test driver assistance and shared control across varied driving conditions.

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

Online Communities as Model Systems for Commons Governance

Online communities serve as transparent laboratories for studying how groups build institutions and govern shared resources.

• YouTube
• 58 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

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

Towards Safe and Efficient Learning in the Physical World - Stanford Seminar

Uncertainty estimates guide safe exploration in physical systems, connecting Bayesian optimization with model-based reinforcement learning and learned probabilistic models.

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

Data Compression - Video Compression - Lecture 18

A lecture on video compression as part of a data compression course.

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