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08 Mar 2013
Employing Publicly Available Biological Expert Knowledge from Protein-Protein Interaction Information
Genome wide association studies (GWAS) are now allowing researchers to probe the depths of common complex human diseases, yet few have identified single sequence variants that confer disease susceptibility. As hypothesized, this is due the fact that multiple interacting factors influence clinical...
Introduction to Propulsion Systems
This course presents aerospace propulsive devices as systems, with functional requirements and engineering and environmental limitations along with requirements and limitations that constrain design choices. Both air-breathing and rocket engines are covered, at a level which enables rational...
10 Jan 2013
On Big Data Algorithmics
- by Costas Vasiliou
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The extensive use of Big Data has now become common in plethora of technologies and industries. From massive data bases to business intelligence and datamining applications; from search engines to recommendation systems; advancing the state of the art of voice recognition, translation and more....
Big Graph Data Panel
- by Costas Vasiliou
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he Semantic Web / Linked Data has grown immensely over the past years. When the Semantic Web community started working over a decade ago the main question was where to get the data from. By now the question of how to process ever increasing amount of semantic/linked data has come to people's utmost...
12 Nov 2012
21W.755 Writing and Reading Short Stories
- by daisy daisy
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This class will focus on the craft of the short story, which we will explore through reading great short stories, writers speaking about writing, writing exercises and conducting workshops on original stories.
20 Oct 2012
6.189 A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python
- by rabi khalil
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This course will provide a gentle introduction to programming using Python™ for highly motivated students with little or no prior experience in programming computers. The course will focus on planning and organizing programs, as well as the grammar of the Python programming language. Lectures...
16 Sep 2012
15.511 Financial Accounting
This six-week summer course teaches basic concepts of corporate financial accounting and reporting. This information is widely used in making investment decisions, corporate and managerial performance assessment, and valuation of firms. Students perform economics-based analysis of accounting...
07 Sep 2012
21L.007J / 21F.020J After Columbus
Sometime after 1492, the concept of the New World or America came into being, and this concept appeared differently - as an experience or an idea - for different people and in different places. This semester, we will read three groups of texts: first, participant accounts of contact between...
15 Apr 2012
The American Revolution
This course is concerned primarily with the revolutionary origins of American government. Topics covered include: English and American backgrounds of the Revolution; issues and arguments in the Anglo-American conflict; colonial resistance and the beginnings of republicanism; the Revolutionary War;...

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