EECS

Fall Term Classes 2008

Check out the following EECS undergraduate- and graduate-level classes below and visit the UPDATES page and/or the MIT listings for FT08 EECS classes. This is just a sampling of the many offerings in EECS this term! Check them out! More information is available at the EECS Academics webpage and at the EECS Undergraduate Office and the EECS Graduate Office websites. Also visit class sites on the apce for Course 6 on the MIT Stellar website.

MIT EECS class for undergraduates: 6.087-6.081 Building Mobile Applications

6.081-6.087 Building Mobile Applications

  • UG subject using Google Android, Nokia phones and MS Windows Mobile
  • Prof. Hal Abelson/enrollment limited
  • 6.081: 6-unit subject, pairs with 6.UAP; credit for UG advanced project, plus 6 additional units.
  • 6.087:12-unit subject, counts as Engineering Concentration under Computer Systems and Architecture Engineering heading. 8 EDPs
  • Read about the winning 6.087 project and team (the top 10 with $275K prize) as announced by Google Aug. 29.

See what students did last spring in this class!

6.266 Network Algorithms

  • Graduate H-level/Prof. Devavrat Shah
  • Algorithms for communication networks: scheduling, routing and congestion control for large, high-performance communication networks like the Internet
  • Algorithms for information processing and applications in networks: information dissemination for Peer-to-peer networks (and more).
  • Algorithms for data storage in networks: efficient storage of statistics for security in routers (and more).
 MIT EECS Fall Term classes: 6.266, Network Algorithms, Prof. Devavrat Shah
MIT EECS Fall Term classes: 6.870 Object Recognition and Scene Understanding, Prof. Antonio Torralba, graduate H-level class

6.870 Object Recognition and Scene Understanding

  • Graduate H-level/Prof. Antonio Torralba
  • Current approaches to object recognition and scene understanding in computer vision
  • Covering: bag of word models, part based models, classifier based models and more!

6.896 Quantum Complexity Theory

  • Graduate H-level/Prof. Scott Aaronson
  • Introduction to quantum computational complexity theory-the study of the fundamental capabilities and limitations of quantum computers.
  • Topics include quantum complexity classes, quantum lower bounds, quantum communication complexity (and much more!)
 MIT EECS fall term 2008 classes: 6.896 Quantum Complexity Theory, graduate H-level
MIT EECS Fall Term 2008 classes: 6.987 Advanced Topics in Power Electronics, Prof. David Perreault

6.987 Advanced Topics in Power Electronics

  • Graduate H-level/Prof. David Perreault
  • Advanced topics in analysis, design and control of power electronics
  • Explores state of art processing and control of electrical energy: high-frequency power magnetics; advanced modeling and control methods; power components, devices, and materials; manufacturing methods; electromagnetic interference, filtering, grounding and shielding; topologies --soft-switched and resonant circuits; circuit theory apps to power electronics; emergying technologies in power conversion.
  • Prereq: 6.334 or permission of Instructor, 3-5-4, H-level Grad credit, 8 EDPs/ MWF 11-12 in 4-153
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