Browsing MIT OCW Archived Courses by Issue Date
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17.462 Innovation in Military Organizations, Spring 2001
(2001-06)Explores the origins, rate, and impact of innovations in military organizations, doctrine, and weapons. Emphasis on organization theory approaches. Comparisons with nonmilitary and non-US experience included. From the ... -
14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2001
(2001-06)General equilibrium, capital theory, incomplete markets, externalities, public goods. From the course web page: Course Description The central topic of this course is the theory of general equilibrium and its applications ... -
7.28 Molecular Biology, Spring 2001
(2001-06)Detailed analysis of the biochemical mechanisms that control the maintenance, expression, and evolution of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. Topics covered in lecture and readings of relevant literature include: gene ... -
21W.730-3 Expository Writing: Autobiography - Theory and Practice, Spring 2001
(2001-06)Focus: What can we believe when we read an autobiography? How do writers recall, select, shape, and present their lives to construct life stories? Readings that ground these questions include selections from Incidents ... -
21W.730-4 Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media, Spring 2001
(2001-06)This course focuses on developing and refining the skills that will you need to express your voice more effectively as an academic writer. As a focus for our writing this semester, this course explores what it means to ... -
17.423 Causes and Prevention of War, Spring 2001
(2001-06)Examines the causes of war, with a focus on practical measures to prevent and control war. Topics covered include: causes and consequences of national misperception; military strategy and policy as cause of war; US foreign ... -
9.15 Biochemistry and Pharmacology of Synaptic Transmission, Fall 2001
(2001-12)Considers the process of neurotransmission, especially chemicals used in the brain and elsewhere to carry signals from nerve terminals to the structures they innervate. Focuses on monoamine transmitters (acetylcholine; ... -
7.012 Introduction to Biology, Fall 2001
(2001-12)Cell biology, immunology, neurobiology, and an exploration into current research in cancer, genomics, and molecular medicine. -
14.271 Industrial Organization I, Fall 2001
(2001-12)Covers theoretical and empirical work dealing with the structure, behavior, and performance of firms and markets and core issues in antitrust. Topics include: the organization of the firm, monopoly, price discrimination, ... -
16.31 Feedback Control Systems, Fall 2001
(2001-12)Introduction to the state-space approach to control system analysis and control synthesis. State-space representation of dynamic systems; controllability and observability; state-space realizations of transfer functions; ... -
9.65 Cognitive Processes, Fall 2001
(2001-12)An introduction to human information processing and learning; topics include the nature of mental representation and processing; the architecture of memory; pattern recognition; attention; imagery and mental codes; concepts ... -
15.810 Introduction to Marketing, Fall 2001
(2001-12)This course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of marketing, including a customer orientation, matched with attention to competition and core strengths. This course is a half semester MBA course taught ... -
6.854J / 18.415J Advanced Algorithms, Fall 2001
(2001-12)A first-year graduate course in algorithms. Emphasizes fundamental algorithms and advanced methods of algorithmic design, analysis, and implementation. Data structures. Network flows. Linear programming. Computational ... -
21H.206 American Consumer Culture, Fall 2001
(2001-12)Examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the "good life" through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. Explores how such things as department stores, advertising, mass-produced cars, and ... -
21L.472 Major European Novels, Fall 2001
(2001-12)A study of changing narrative forms in the nineteenth-century European novel. The changing fortunes of the heroic and romantic ideals. The motif of the outsider as a means for depicting social reality. Readings in Cervantes, ... -
6.852J / 18.437J Distributed Algorithms, Fall 2001
(2001-12)Design and analysis of concurrent algorithms, emphasizing those suitable for use in distributed networks. Process synchronization, allocation of computational resources, distributed consensus, distributed graph algorithms, ... -
18.335J / 6.337J Numerical Methods of Applied Mathematics I, Fall 2001
(2001-12)IEEE-standard, iterative and direct linear system solution methods, eigendecomposition and model-order reduction, fast Fourier transforms, multigrid, wavelets and other multiresolution methods, matrix sparsification. ... -
CMS.930 / 21G.034 Media, Education, and the Marketplace, Fall 2001
(2001-12)How can we harness the emerging forms of interactive media to enhance the learning process? Professor Miyagawa and prominent guest speakers will explore a broad range of issues on new media and learning - technical, social, ... -
2.51 Intermediate Heat and Mass Transfer, Fall 2001
(2001-12)Analysis, modeling, and design of heat and mass transfer processes with application to common technologies. Unsteady heat conduction in one or more dimensions, steady conduction in multidimensional configurations, numerical ... -
11.001J / 4.250J Introduction to Urban Design and Development, Fall 2001
(2001-12)Examines the evolving structure of cities and the way that cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas can be designed and developed. Guest speakers present cases, involving current projects, which illustrate the scope and ...