Systems Core Courses

Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change

What is the difference between an entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur? Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Brian Trelstad gives learners insights into how social entrepreneurs design innovative

• edX
• 5 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Performance Engineering of Software Systems

9 ratings

This is an 18-unit class that provides a hands-on, project-based introduction to building scalable and high-performance software systems.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 30 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

IT Fundamentals for Business Professionals: Enterprise Systems

20 ratings

Working with Information Technology (IT) without the necessary background? Learn the fundamentals of Information Systems in a corporate environment

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis

14 ratings

Learn to organize cost information for internal decisions: design costing systems, account for overhead, apply activity-based costing, and answer "what-if" questions with CVP analysis.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Value Chain Innovations in Business Eco-Systems

1 rating

Explore how process design, relationships, information, and business models can create innovation and value across interconnected business ecosystems.

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

Validation of Safety-Critical Systems: Introduction and Overview

1 rating

Explore algorithmic approaches to validating safety-critical systems, covering key challenges and solutions for ensuring reliability in complex technological implementations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems - Spring 2020

7 ratings

A 20-lecture survey of distributed systems spanning RPC, replication, Raft, consistency, transactions, big data, Bitcoin, and Blockstack.

• YouTube
• 1 day 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fisheries Professor

Aquaculture - Types of Culture Systems

19 ratings

A survey of aquaculture systems, from pond, valley, and brush culture to cages, seaweed farming, aquaponics, and recirculating systems.

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

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

Sensor Systems for Predicting, Preventing, and Curing Cardiovascular Disease

Explore how patient-specific and real-time sensors could improve cardiovascular treatment, from optimizing assist devices to detecting changes in cardiac function.

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

Stanford Seminar - Universal Intelligent Systems by 2030 - Carl Hewitt and John Perry

A vision for universal intelligent systems that combine inconsistent information across everyday devices, adapt through interaction, and track their own goals, capabilities, and provenance.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building Safe and Reliable Autonomous Systems

A discussion of techniques for making autonomous systems safe and reliable in high-stakes applications.

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

Stanford Seminar - Get in Touch: Tactile Perception for Human-Robot Systems

Explores how tactile sensing lets robots interpret touch during grasping and manipulation, from sensor designs to perception of direction and object interaction.

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

Stanford Seminar - Computing with Physical Systems

A method for training mechanical, electronic, and photonic systems to perform machine-learning tasks as physical neural networks.

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

AI and Law: Implications for Society and Legal Systems

A former California Supreme Court justice examines how AI’s history and capabilities raise questions for legal institutions, tort law, and public policy.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video