1. 512门课程资源可以获取

2. 麻省理工开放式课程获得多项奖项

3. 深度探究：课程Course STS.069

4. 一个常见问题

1.512门课程资源可以获取

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麻省理工将于2003年9月发布500门课程，正式启动MIT OCW项目。我们希望您能在这500门课程中找到您感兴趣的课程，来自33个不同的学术研究领域。

本月我们又集中选萃了50门课程，列表如下：

4.181-建筑设计研讨：针对创意办公室研究使用者需求

4.240J-都市规划技巧：观察、诠释和呈现城市
4.273-设计调查概论
4.285-建筑研究专题：开放型政府系统架构中的以市民中心的设计概念

4.440-基础结构理论

BE.370J-计量生理学：组织与细胞

BE.442-生医材料的分子结构

BE.451J-医疗器材和植体设计

BE.462J-生医材料的分子原理

BE.470J-计量生理学：组织与细胞

9.013J-细胞和分子神经生物学：脑与认知科学III

9.036-视觉系统

9.04-视觉和听觉的神经系统基础

9.05-运动的神经系统基础

9.09J-细胞神经生物学

6.002-电路学
6.004-电子运算结构
6.034-人工智能
6.101-类比电子概论实验

6.833-人类智能演化

ESD.358J-系统安全

ESD.565J-整合电子系统和全球信息系统

ESD.61J-整合精实企业体

ESD.84-工程系统博士生研讨

ESD.935-都市运输、土地使用与环境

HST.508-基因体学与计算生物学

HST.524J-医疗器材和植体设计

HST.541J-计量生理学：细胞和组织

HST.583-功能性磁振共振成像：数据获取和分析

HST.921-未来健康医疗系统中的信息技术

24.04J –正义
24.500 – 他心

24.611J – 政治哲学全球性的正义

24.904J –语言习得

24.942 – 冷僻语言的语法

3.225 – 材料的电子和机械特性
3.37 – 焊接和连接过程

3.40J – 物理冶金学

3.43J –集成微电子电路元件

3.46 –感光材质与装置

MAS.160 – 媒体技术中的信号，系统和信息
MAS.622 –图形辨识与分析
MAS.962 –媒介科技特论：运算语义学

MAS.963 –关联性之外：能够适应和学习关联性的计算机系统

MAS.963 – 技术识别：我们是谁，我们如何看待自己和他人

8.044 – 统计物理学I
8.13 – 实验物理学I & II “低年级实验”
8.20 –狭义相对论导论

8.261J – 计算神经科学导论

8.323 -相对量子场理论

获取完整的麻省理工开放式课程 课程列表，请访问 完整课程列表。往后可在由麻省理工开放式课程计划负责更新的电子报中获得新课程的消息。

2. 麻省理工开放式课程获得多项奖项

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今年对于麻省理工开放式课程不同寻常。麻省理工开放式课程网站因为它的设计、内容、用户体验和支持技术在过去的几个月里获得多项引人瞩目的奖项，它们更激发了我们的动力：

3. 深度探究：课程Course STS.069

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每月新闻组将为订阅者提供一门特定课程的深入指导。本月，我们将深入研究“课程STS.069：技术和危险的世界”， 来自麻省理工学院的 科学、技术和社会项目（STS） 。MIT的Rosalind Williams教授（STS项目负责人）在课程中分析了当前重要的事件对于技术化的世界的意义和关系。

课程的切入点是技术和恐怖主义的关系，探究人类建立的世界是如何产生了不安全和危险的，以及人类是如何应对的。课程主题包括技术风险和补救，社会技术系统，灾难想像，技术和识别，技术和信仰，技术和教育，技术和信任等。

Williams教授还在课程网站提供了一篇介绍性小品文 ，介绍了这些课程资料形成的背景。她强烈建议网站的访问者在学习她的课程前首先学习这些内容。 学习资源 部分提供了包括Williams教授和她的学生在内的电子邮件，从STS的角度考察了当前的重大事件，可以藉此了解课堂讨论的情况。 作业部分 提供了一系列对于STS学生的作业安排。 阅读资料包括了”世纪末”所收录Manuel Castells的文章“第四世界的崛起”; Anthony Giddens 的“现代化的结果”，以及Donald MacKenzie的在著作“了解机器：关于技术变化的评论”中收录的评论“和计算机相关的偶然死亡”.

关于“技术，战争和恐怖主义”的研讨会在2001年10月1日举行，紧随着9.11恐怖袭击后，会议的视频资料 也可从网站获取。不同的片断，包括麻省理工学院国际研究中心Ted Postol的谈话，STS的David Mindell的谈话，麻省理工学院环境问题研究中心David Marks的谈话。

4. 一个常见问题

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问题：是否可以把麻省理工学院课程提供的范例视频RM文档保存到我的硬盘中吗？

答：目前大多数提供的影像文件都是透过串流伺服器提供的Real Video格式影片。我们以这种格式提供影像的原因（多种传输速率），是希望能够让连线速率不同的使用者能够同样观赏麻省理工学院开放式课程的影片，而不需要下载大的文件。不过，连线速度缓慢的使用者将无法享受到高品质的影像效果。 为了提高用户的视频体验，我们也提供用户下载视频内容的方式。

下面是一个链接到流媒体文件URL结构：

http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870/18/18.06/videolectures/strang-1806-lec01-26aug1999-220k.rm

如果你想下载同样的文件然后离线观看，使用如下的URL－唯一不同之处在于URL的开始部分：

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/18/18.06/videolectures/strang-1806-lec01-26aug1999-220k.rm

同样的方法对于大多数（不是全部）MIT OCW流媒体视频内容都是有效的。仅仅需找到流媒体文件的URL，然后用http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870替换URL的开始部分

http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870 with http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870.

1. Materials from 512 Courses Available

2. MIT OCW Recognized with Several Awards

3. Digging Deeper: Course STS.069

4. A Frequently Asked Question

1. Materials from 512 Courses Available

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The official "launch" of MIT OpenCourseWare, with the publication of 512 courses, came on September 30, 2003. We hope that you are finding material that interests you among these courses, which come from all 33 of MIT's academic disciplines.

This issue of the newsletter, we are pleased to highlight 50 of these MIT course offerings, including:

4.181 - Architecture Design Workshop: Researching User Demand for Innovative Offices

4.240J - Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City
4.273 - Introduction to Design Inquiry
4.285 - Research Topics in Architecture: Citizen-Centered Design of Open Governance Systems

4.440 - Basic Structural Theory

BE.370J - Quantitative Physiology: Cells and Tissues

BE.442 - Molecular Structure of Biological Materials

BE.451J - Design of Medical Devices and Implants

BE.462J - Molecular Principles of Biomaterials

BE.470J - Quantitative Physiology: Cells and Tissues

9.013J - Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology: The Brain and Cognitive Sciences III

9.036 - The Visual System

9.04 - Neural Basis of Vision and Audition

9.05 - Neural Basis of Movement

9.09J - Cellular Neurobiology

6.002 - Circuits and Electronics
6.004 - Computation Structures
6.034 - Artificial Intelligence
6.101 - Introductory Analog Electronics Laboratory

6.833 - The Human Intelligence Enterprise

ESD.358J - System Safety

ESD.565J - Integrating eSystems & Global Information Systems

ESD.61J - Integrating The Lean Enterprise

ESD.84 - Engineering Systems Doctoral Seminar

ESD.935 - Urban Transportation, Land Use, and the Environment

HST.508 - Genomics and Computational Biology

HST.524J - Design of Medical Devices and Implants

HST.541J - Quantitative Physiology: Cells and Tissues

HST.583 - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Data Acquisition and Analysis

HST.921 - Information Technology in the Health Care System of the Future

24.04J - Justice
24.500 - Other Minds

24.611J - Political Philosophy: Global Justice

24.904J - Language Acquisition

24.942 - Grammar of a Less Familiar Language

3.225 - Electronic and Mechanical Properties of Materials
3.37 - Welding and Joining Processes

3.40J - Physical Metallurgy

3.43J - Integrated Microelectronic Devices

3.46 - Optical and Optoelectronic Materials

MAS.160 - Signals, Systems, and Information for Media Technology
MAS.622 - Pattern Recognition & Analysis
MAS.962 - Special Topics in Media Technology: Computational Semantics

MAS.963 - Out of Context: A Course on Computer Systems That Adapt To, and Learn From, Context

MAS.963 - Techno-identity: Who We Are and How We Perceive Ourselves and Others

8.044 - Statistical Physics I
8.13 - Experimental Physics I & II "Junior Lab"
8.20 - Introduction to Special Relativity

8.261J - Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

8.323 - Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I

For a complete list of all MIT OCW offerings, visit the complete course list. Look for notice of new courses in subsequent issues of "The MIT OpenCourseWare Update" email newsletter.

2. MIT OCW Recognized with Several Awards

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It has been quite a year for MIT OCW. Our momentum has been fueled by a series of noteworthy awards in recent months that have recognized the MIT OCW Web site for its design, content, user experience, and underlying technology:

3. Digging Deeper: Course STS.069

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Each month, this newsletter offers subscribers an in-depth guide to one particular subject. This month, we delve into "Course STS.069: Technology in a Dangerous World," a course from MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS). MIT Professor Rosalind Williams (the director of the program) analyzes important current events for what they reveal about the nature of our technological world.

The starting point for the course is the connection between technology and terrorism, and exploration of how a human-built world can foster insecurity and danger, and how human beings respond. Topics covered in the course include technological risk and remediation, sociotechnical systems, imagination of disaster, technology and identity, technology and religion, technology and education, and technology and trust.

Professor Williams has included an introductory essay on her MIT OCW course site that provides background on the development of this material that she strongly encourages site visitors to read prior to exploring her course. The Study Materials section offers a series of emails from Professor Williams to her students that examine current events from an STS perspective, providing insight into class discussions; a listing of the Assignments expected of STS students; and a list of Readings that include Manuel Castells' article "The Rise of the Fourth World" from his End of Millennium; Anthony Giddens' The Consequences of Modernity; and Donald MacKenzie's essay "Computer-Related Accidental Death," from his book, Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change.

Videos of an MIT teach-in on "Technology, War, and Terrorism," that was held October 1, 2001, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, are also available. Clips include talks by Ted Postol from the MIT Center for International Studies; David Mindell of STS; and David Marks, the director of the MIT Center for Environmental Initiatives.

4. A Frequently Asked Question

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QUESTION: Is it possible to save the RealPlayer video files, offered in a sample of MIT OCW courses, to a disk or to my hard drive?

ANSWER: Most of the video that MIT OCW provides at this point is in a Real Video format delivered through streaming servers. Our goal in providing video in this format (in multiple bitrates) is to enable visitors with a variety of Internet connections to sample MIT OCW video offerings with a common browser plug-in without having to download large media files. However, visitors with slow connections will not enjoy a quality video experience.

To improve your video experience, we have made it possible for visitors to download the streaming video files. Here's the URL structure for a link to an MIT OCW video lecture delivered in a streaming format:

http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870/18/18.06/videolectures/strang-1806-lec01-26aug1999-220k.rm

If you want to download the same file and play it off-line, use the following URL - the only difference is in the first part of the URL:

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/18/18.06/videolectures/strang-1806-lec01-26aug1999-220k.rm

This same basic approach will work for most (not all) of the MIT OCW streaming videos. Simply find the URL to the streaming media, and replace the first part of the URL:

http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870 with http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870.