From full introductory courses in engineering, psychology, and computer science to lectures about financial concepts, linguistics, and music, the MIT OpenCourseWare YouTube channel has it all - ...

Note that the uncertainty of a choice is inversely proportional its probability, so the term inside of the log is basically the uncertainty of that particular choice. We use the $\log_2$ to measure ...

The layer cake of abstractions gets taller yet: we could write an interpreter for say, Python, in C and then write our application programs in Python. Nowadays, programmers often choose the ...

Many of the students in Rebekka L. Stone’s biology classes hope to become the first in their families to graduate from high school. Some are struggling to master basic English, much less the more ...

While it is becoming increasingly common (and easy) for lectures to be placed online as videos or podcasts, such media can often be very limited in their utility. For example, I missed a lecture last ...

Abstract: This paper presents our attempt to create English automatic speech recognition (ASR) and English to Japanese statistical machine translation system (SMT). We used MIT OpenCourseWare lectures ...