IT, Computing, Telecommunications Postgraduate Degrees

...2 hours / session Digital Anthropology is a Spring 2003 applied social science and media arts seminar surveying the blossoming arena of digital-artifact...

...and other types of quantitative reasoning useful for description, estimation, comparison, and explanation are covered. Emphasis is on the use and limitations...

...The course relies on a seminar format so students are expected to read all of the assigned materials and come to class prepared to discuss key themes...

...readings aimed at helping prepare for class discussions. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Required for all entering DUSP Ph.D students...

...It thereby builds analytic skills for evaluating programs and projects, organizations, and environments. It draws on the literature of the sociology of organizations...

...place a premium on local ways of knowing, and gauge the success of research in terms of what partner-communities do with the knowledge that is co-produced... Learn about: Data Collection, Social Science, Social Change...

...look at the impact of information technology and computers on the labor market. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session In this course...

...There is a particular focus on identifying and valuing sources of flexibility using “real options”, Monte-Carlo simulation, and other techniques from the... Learn about: Real Estate...

...low-income households can be improved by adaptation of low cost and sustainable technologies. Discussion of development issues as well as project implementation... Learn about: Team Training, Quality Training...

...and the applications of that data to real-life problem solving. Exercises and tools for working with SQL, as well as sample database sets, are provided... Learn about: Database training, Information Systems, Database Management...

...transportation demand and cost analyses. As part of the core in the Master of Science in Transportation program, the course will not focus on a specific... Learn about: Demand Economics...

...The course explores ways to make research knowledge more accessible, credible, and useful in the realm of public policy and practice, a project in which...

...including (among others) Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Managua, Singapore, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Kabul, Beirut, Cairo, Kinshasa, Cape Town and Johannesburg...

...projects and policies based on such theories. The ultimate goal is to create new planning sensibilities, which theorize from practice, not the other way around...

...The course covers solution methods including numerical search algorithms, model predictive control, dynamic programming, variational calculus...

...students with the scientific rigor, applied mathematical complexity, and physical understanding that form the foundation of classical subsonic aerodynamics... Learn about: Applied Mathematical, Fluid Mechanics...

...By the end of the course, you should be able to design controllers using state-space methods and evaluate whether these controllers are robust to...

...for essential blocks in modern physical-layer communication systems (coders and decoders, filters, multi-tone modulation, synchronization sub-systems)... Learn about: Systems Engineering, Communication Training...

...the way they are today and to understand the issues facing the designers of next-generation data networks. Much of the course focuses on network algorithms and their performance... Learn about: Network Training, Communication Training...

..."real options" analysis to create design flexibility and measure its value so that it can be incorporated into system optimization. It builds on essential... Learn about: MS Excel, Financial Training...