Professional Education Courses | Future Course Offerings

Start Date: January 17, 2017
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Course Description: By 2020, there will be 50 billion devices connected to the Internet. How will you and your organization capitalize on this tremendous opportunity? Join this new evolution in hardware, software, and data by registering for this six-week online offering.

While the promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) brings many new business prospects, it also presents significant challenges ranging from technology architectural choices to security concerns. MIT Professional Education’s new Internet of Things: Roadmap to the Connected World course offers important insights on how to overcome these challenges and thrive in this exciting space. At the end of the program, you will be able to understand how to develop and implement your own IoT technologies, solutions, and applications.

Course Description: Discover how to protect yourself and your company with MIT Professional Education’s Cybersecurity course. In partnership with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), this fast-paced, 6-week online course provides a holistic look at cybersecurity technologies, techniques, and systems.

Taught by a team of world-renowned security experts in hardware, software, cryptography, and policy from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Cybersecurity course provide a comprehensive view of key technologies and techniques. By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped with new tools to help develop and implement your own cybersecurity solutions.

Course Description: This Digital Programs course will survey state-of-the-art topics in Big Data, looking at data collection (smartphones, sensors, the Web), data storage and processing (scalable relational databases, Hadoop, Spark, etc.), extracting structured data from unstructured data, systems issues (exploiting multicore, security), analytics (machine learning, data compression, efficient algorithms), visualization, and a range of applications.

Each module will introduce broad concepts as well as provide the most recent developments in research.

The course is taught by a team of world experts in each of these areas from MIT and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

With backgrounds in data, programming, finance, multicore technology, database systems, robotics, transportation, hardware, and operating systems, each MIT Tackling the Challenges of Big Data professor brings their own unique experience and expertise to the course.