1.512門課程資源可以獲取
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麻省理工將于2003年9月發布500門課程，正式啟動MIT OCW項目。我們希望您能在這500門課程中找到您感興趣的課程，來自33個不同的學術研究領域。
本月我們又集中選萃了50門課程，列表如下：
4.181-建築設計研討：針對創意辦公室研究使用者需求
4.240J-都市規劃技巧：觀察、詮釋和呈現城市
4.273-設計調查概論
4.285-建築研究專題：開放型政府系統架構中的以市民中心的設計概念
4.440-基礎結構理論
BE.370J-計量生理學：組織與細胞
BE.442-生醫材料的分子結構
BE.451J-醫療器材和植體設計
BE.462J-生醫材料的分子原理
BE.470J-計量生理學：組織與細胞
9.013J-細胞和分子神經生物學：腦與認知科學III
9.036-視覺系統
9.04-視覺和聽覺的神經系統基礎
9.05-運動的神經系統基礎
9.09J-細胞神經生物學
6.002-電路學
6.004-電子運算結構
6.034-人工智能
6.101-類比電子概論實驗
6.833-人類智能演化
ESD.358J-系統安全
ESD.565J-整合電子系統和全球信息系統
ESD.61J-整合精實企業體
ESD.84-工程系統博士生研討
ESD.935-都市運輸、土地使用與環境
HST.508-基因體學與計算生物學
HST.524J-醫療器材和植體設計
HST.541J-計量生理學：細胞和組織
HST.583-功能性磁振共振成像：數據獲取和分析
HST.921-未來健康醫療系統中的信息技術
24.04J –正義
24.500 – 他心
24.611J – 政治哲學全球性的正義
24.904J –語言習得
24.942 – 冷僻語言的語法
3.225 – 材料的電子和機械特性
3.37 – 焊接和連接過程
3.40J – 物理冶金學
3.43J –積體微電子電路元件
3.46 –感光材質與裝置
MAS.160 – 媒體技術中的信號，系統和信息
MAS.622 –圖形辨識與分析
MAS.962 –媒介科技特論：運算語義學
MAS.963 –關聯性之外：能夠適應和學習關聯性的計算機系統
MAS.963 – 技術識別：我們是誰，我們如何看待自己和他人
8.044 – 統計物理學I
8.13 – 實驗物理學I & II “低年級實驗”
8.20 –狹義相對論導論
8.261J – 計算神經科學導論
8.323 -相對量子場理論
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今年對於麻省理工開放式課程不同尋常。麻省理工開放式課程網站因為它的設計、內容、用戶體驗和支持技術在過去的幾個月裏獲得多項引人矚目的獎項，它們更激發了我們的動力：
- 11月10日， InfoWorld 命名麻省理工開放式課程為它的年度「 InfoWorld 100」，表彰並肯定了我們的采用發布平臺技術，它是在Sapient公司的幫助下，我們採用了微軟公司的CMS（Microsoft's Content Management Server 2002）
- 10月21日，在 Massachusetts Interactive Media Council (MIMC) 年度頒獎會上，麻省理工開放式課程獲得最佳教育網站獎和最佳用戶體驗獎。MIMC獎是美國競爭最為激烈的獎項，主要授予開發和應用交互性技術取得的進步。
- Sapient公司一直以來負責我們的發布技術和項目，在10月15日在北美地區“互聯網商業年度解決方案”中被遴選作?第六個年度「 微軟授權合作夥伴獎」。
- 1月30日 Kyoto Digital Archives 授予麻省理工學院 獎項，表彰其對於發展和促進數字存檔和應用領域做出的貢獻。
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課程的切入點是技術和恐怖主義的關係，探究人類建立的世界是如何產生了不安全和危險的，以及人類是如何應對的。課程主題包括技術風險和補救，社會技術系統，災難想像，技術和識別，技術和信仰，技術和教育，技術和信任等。
Williams教授還在課程網站提供了一篇
介紹性小品文 ，介紹了這些課程資料形成的背景。她強烈建議網站的訪問者在學習她的課程前首先學習這些內容。
學習資源 部分提供了包括Williams教授和她的學生在內的電子郵件，從STS的角度考察了當前的重大事件，可以藉此瞭解課堂討論的情況。
作業部分 提供了一系列對於STS學生的作業安排。
閱讀資料包括了”世紀末”所收錄Manuel Castells的文章“第四世界的崛起”; Anthony Giddens 的“現代化的結果”，以及Donald MacKenzie的在著作“瞭解機器：關于技術變化的評論”中收錄的評論“和電腦相關的偶然死亡”.
關于“技術，戰爭和恐怖主義”的研討會在2001年10月1日舉行，緊隨著9.11恐怖襲擊後，
會議的視頻資料 也可從網站獲取。不同的片斷，包括麻省理工學院國際研究中心Ted Postol的談話，STS的David Mindell的談話，麻省理工學院環境問題研究中心David Marks的談話。
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問題：是否可以把麻省理工學院課程提供的範例視頻RM文檔保存到我的硬盤中嗎？
答：目前大多數提供的影像檔案都是透過串流伺服器提供的Real Video格式影片。我們以這種格式提供影像的原因（多種傳輸速率），是希望能夠讓連線速率不同的使用者能夠同樣觀賞麻省理工學院開放式課程的影片，而不需要下載大的檔案。不過，連線速度緩慢的使用者將無法享受到高品質的影像效果。
為了提高用戶的視頻體驗，我們也提供用戶下載視頻內容的方式。
下面是一個鏈接到流媒體文件URL結構：
http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870/18/18.06/videolectures/strang-1806-lec01-26aug1999-220k.rm
如果你想下載同樣的文件然後離線觀看，使用如下的URL－唯一不同之處在于URL的開始部分：
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/18/18.06/videolectures/strang-1806-lec01-26aug1999-220k.rm
同樣的方法對於大多數（不是全部）MIT OCW流媒體視頻內容都是有效的。僅僅需找到流媒體文件的URL，然後用http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870替換URL的開始部分
http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870 with http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870.
1. Materials from 512 Courses Available
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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
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:
- On November 10, InfoWorld named MIT OCW one of its InfoWorld 100 in recognition of our underlying publication platform, a customized version of Microsoft's Content Management Server 2002 product that we developed with the support of the Sapient Corp.
- At the annual Massachusetts Interactive Media Council (MIMC) Awards on October 21, MIT OCW won Best Educational Web Site and Best User Experience. The MIMC Awards are the largest competition in the United States that recognizes achievements in the development and implementation of interactive technologies.
- Sapient, which has been instrumental in developing our publication program and technology, was selected on October 15 as the winner in the sixth annual Microsoft Certified Partner Awards in the "Internet Business Solution of the Year" category representing North America.
- On January 30, the Kyoto Digital Archives honored MIT for its contribution to the development and promotion of digital archives, and applications in the field of digital archiving.
3. Digging Deeper: Course STS.069
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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.
