FPGA computing systems: Background knowledge and introductory materials (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/fpga-intro

This course is for anyone passionate in learning how a hardware component can be adapted at runtime to better respond to users/environment needs. This adaptation can be provided by the designers, or it can be an embedded characteristic of the system itself. These runtime adaptable systems will be implemented by using FPGA technologies. Within this course we are going to provide a basic understanding on how the FPGAs are working and of the rationale behind the choice of them to implement a desire

Archaeoastronomy (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/archaeoastronomy

Archaeoastronomy is the “science of stars and stones”. It is an interdisciplinary science in between architecture, archaeology, and astronomy. It studies the relationships between the ancient monuments and the sky, in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic world. The course provides the first complete, easy introduction to this fascinating discipline. During the course, many spectacular ancient sites of archaeology – s

Artificial Intelligence and legal issues (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/artificial-intelligence-and-legal-issues

The purpose of the course is to help students understand the legal implications related to the design and use of artificial intelligence systems, providing an overview of the risks and legal protections that can be envisaged and giving an overview of the legislation and legal principles currently applicable on the subject. In particular, the profiles of civil and criminal liability, protection in terms of intellectual property and the impacts of AI on the fundamental rights of the individual - i

Artificial Intelligence: an Overview (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/artificial-intelligence-overview

Offered by Politecnico di Milano. Enter the artificial intelligence world

Being a researcher (in Information Science and Technology) (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/being-researcher

The course provides a broad view of how to become and progress as a researcher. It spans over a wide range of topics, from the historical development of scientific thought to research methodology, to the pragmatics of publication, research funding, evaluation, and promotion in a researcher’s career. It also stresses the ethical aspects of research. Although the course speaks about scientific research in general, it especially focuses on the field on Information and Communication Science and Tech

Communication skills for engineering scholars (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/communication-skills-for-engineering-scholars

The course teaches engineering scholars how to improve their communication skills, based on theory, examples and practical exercises. Topics include basics of rhetoric (how to be clear), basics of argumentation theory (how to be persuasive), public speaking, grant writing, scientific writing. The main target are engineering scholars; the first 3 weeks, though, can be useful to anyone wishing to improve their communication skills.

Designing Learning Innovation (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/designing-learning-innovation

Where to start to innovate your teaching? But before that, what does it mean to innovate in the classroom? Designing Learning Innovation aims to put the designing culture at the service of learning innovation, supporting those who do not have a specific pedagogical background and those who wish to learn the basic tools of a good teaching design then to continue exploring the frontiers of innovation. A set of logical and methodological tools to innovate teaching, finding the most suitable approa

Developing FPGA-accelerated cloud applications with SDAccel: Practice (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/fpga-sdaccel-practice

This course is for anyone passionate about learning how to develop FPGA-accelerated applications with SDAccel! The more general purpose you are, the more flexible you are and the more kinds of programs and algorithms you can execute on your underlying computing infrastructure. All of this is terrific, but there is no free food and this is happening, quite often, by losing in efficiency. This course will present several scenarios where the workloads require more performance than can be obtained

Developing FPGA-accelerated cloud applications with SDAccel: Theory (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/fpga-sdaccel-theory

This course is for anyone passionate in learning how to develop FPGA-accelerated applications with SDAccel! We are entering in an era in which technology progress induces paradigm shifts in computing! As a tradeoff between the two extreme characteristics of GPP and ASIC, we can find a new concept, a new idea of computing... the reconfigurable computing, which has combined the advantages of both the previous worlds. Within this context, we can say that reconfigurable computing will widely, perva

Energy management for real estate. Methods and digital tools (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/energy-management-for-real-estate

The figure of the Energy Manager (EM), introduced in the United States in the early 1970s, during the first oil crisis, brought to light the need to get more work out of less energy. In Italy, this figure was officially introduced by Law 308/82, but had its first strong impulse thanks to Law 10/91, aimed at implementing the National Energy Plan on the rational use of energy, energy saving and the development of renewable energy sources. More in detail, an Energy Manager is a person whose task is

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/ethics-of-artificial-intelligence

This course deals with the problems created, aggravated or transformed by AI. It is intended to give students a chance to reflect on the ethical, social, and cultural impact of AI by focusing on the issues faced by and brought about by professionals in AI but also by citizens, institutions and societies. The course addresses these topics by means of case studies and examples analyzed in the light of the main ethical frameworks.

FPGA computing systems: A Bird’s Eye View (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/fpga-computing-systems

Nowadays the complexity of computing systems is skyrocketing. Programmers have to deal with extremely powerful computing systems that take time and considerable skills to be instructed to perform at their best. It is clear that it is not feasible to rely on human intervention to tune a system: conditions change frequently, rapidly, and unpredictably. It would be desirable to have the system automatically adapt to the mutating environment. This course analyzes the stated problem, embraces a radic

Fundamentals of financial and management accounting (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-accounting-polimi

This is an introductory course on financial and management accounting. The first part of this course will introduce the basic accounting principles and accounting terminology to understand how a company keeps control of financial events and provides information on how it is performing. These basic concepts will support the analysis of financial reports companies prepare. We will go through balance sheet, income statement, financial statement, learning how to read and analyze them. The course wi

Introduzione alla fisica sperimentale: elettromagnetismo, ottica, fisica moderna (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/fisica-sperimentale-fisica-moderna

Il corso affronta le tematiche dell'elettromagnetismo e dell'ottica, fornendo le nozioni che risultano utili per affrontare insegnamenti di fisica di base, a partire dalla comprensione del metodo sperimentale per poi mostrare le grandezze fondamentali e loro relazioni in tali ambiti, imparando a identificarle, distinguerle e utilizzarle. Gli argomenti affrontati relativamente all'elettromagnetismo sono, divisi per settimane: · campo elettrico, conduttori, condensatori e materiali dielettrici ·

Introduzione alla fisica sperimentale: meccanica, termodinamica (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/fisica-sperimentale-meccanica-termodinamica

Il corso affronta le tematiche della meccanica e della termodinamica, fornendo le nozioni che risultano utili per affrontare insegnamenti di fisica di base, a partire dalla comprensione del metodo sperimentale per poi mostrare le grandezze fondamentali e loro relazioni in tali ambiti, imparando a identificarle, distinguerle e utilizzarle. Gli argomenti affrontati relativamente alla meccanica sono, divisi per settimane: · cinematica del punto materiale ed esempi di moti · dinamica del punto mate

Introduzione alla Storia dell'Architettura Contemporanea (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/architettura-contemporanea

Con un viaggio tra le opere più note di alcuni grandi maestri del Novecento, questo corso offre un punto di vista utile per interpretare le vicende dell’architettura, ovvero dell’arte di costruire spazi per la nostra vita quotidiana. Il corso si articola in tre settimane, ognuna dedicata all’approfondimento di un tema specifico: la prima settimana presenta i capolavori del Novecento, la seconda ripercorre il lavoro di due maestri della cultura architettonica italiana, la terza conduce nella visi

Machine Learning: an overview (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning-overview

The course provides a general overview of the main methods in the machine learning field. Starting from a taxonomy of the different problems that can be solved through machine learning techniques, the course briefly presents some algorithmic solutions, highlighting when they can be successful, but also their limitations. These concepts will be explained through examples and case studies.

Modelling and measuring the Energy Transition (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/modelling-and-measuring-the-energy-transition

This MOOC provides attendants with fundamental knowledge about the main challenges in modelling the energy transition at both global and regional levels, as well as the industrial ecology instruments to measure the associated impacts. The course begins by covering national energy accounting and the definition of a reference energy system, followed by an introduction to modelling for energy planning through linear programming. Participants will be engaged in hands-on practice using Excel. Addit

New paradigms in wastewater management (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/new-paradigms-in-wastewater-management

The water cycle is strictly related to the fair and sustainable development of any society. Appropriate technologies and practices are needed for providing clean water and adequate sanitation to citizens worldwide, while facing environmental and societal challenges, such as climate change and increasing urbanization. Wastewater treatment facilities are nowadays shifting from infrastructures providing effective clean water, sanitation and environmental protection towards advanced biorefineries th

One Health: Pandemic preparedness, prevention, and response (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/one-health-pandemic-preparedness-prevention-and-response

This course was developed by the Karolinska Institutet (KI) and the Federation of the European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) as part of the research project 'Pan-European Response to the Impacts of the COVID-19 and future Pandemics and Epidemics' (PERISCOPE). Funded by the European Commission Research Funding programme Horizon 2020 under the Grant Agreement number 101016233, PERISCOPE investigates the broad socio-economic and behavioural impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, to make Europe more resil

Platform Thinking: designing a Platform (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/platform-thinking-designing-a-platform

Platforms changed the way we live and we do business. This module of the “Platform Thinking” series aims to help innovators in designing and building platforms. At first sight, it may seem that platforms "simply" connect different kinds of users, as Airbnb links travelers and hosts or as Uber links drivers and riders. Well, this is true: platforms link different kinds of users. Nevertheless, this is just the enabling factor to have a platform, definitely not enough to describe the wide range of

Platform Thinking: exploiting data through platforms (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/platform-thinking-exploiting-data-through-platforms

(Digital) data are often considered the new oil. Companies often exploit them building platforms, involving different sets of users that generate data – for example, enjoying a digital service through a mobile app – and other organizations that see value in those data and wish to leverage them. This module of the “Platform Thinking” series aims to assess the role of data in digital platforms. We are talking about companies – like social networks – that exploit data to offer personalized advertis

Platform Thinking: Innovation in digital business models era (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/platform-thinking

Offered by Politecnico di Milano. Spark Business Transformation through Platforms. Master platform models to foster innovation and exploit ...

Platform Thinking: what’s beyond Uber? (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/platform-thinking-whats-beyond-uber

Over the last two decades, platforms have transformed the way, we search for information (e.g., Google), buy goods (e.g., Amazon), consume news and media (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) and travel and move around (e.g., Airbnb, Booking.com, Uber and TripAdvisor). This phenomenon is known as 'the power of platforms', defined as an innovative business model that relies on digital technologies to assemble people, knowledge and companies in an interactive ecosystem where value can be created, captured

Project Management: Beyond planning and control (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/project-management-beyond-planning-and-control

Project Management is a fundamental theme to understand and work in any business environments. Projects are the organizational way to make innovation happen and to realize any kind of custom solution or to change how an organization work. Project Management is the set of capabilities, skills and tools to properly work on projects. The course aims to define the concept of a project and to show how, in the management of a successful business, project management and process management must coexist

Project Management: Control using the Earned Value and Risk (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/control-and-replan-using-earned-value-and-risk

Project Management is a fundamental theme to understand and work in any business environments. Once projects are properly planned, the job of a Project Manager is just started. Indeed, PMs need to properly control, re plan, and manage risks during the execution of the project. During the course, the Earned Value Management System – the standard and most diffused technique to properly manage time and cost in a project – is presented. In doing so, the concepts of BCWS (the time-phased budget), the

Project Management: Tools, Approaches, Behavioural Skills (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/project-management-tools-approaches-skills

Offered by Politecnico di Milano. Learn how to successfully manage your projects. Master technical tools, managerial approaches and ...

Sustainable Urban Water Systems (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainable-urban-water-systems

The MOOC “Sustainable Urban Water Systems” aims to provide knowledge about modern and sustainable solutions for urban water management in water-sensitive cities. The focus is on stormwater control and water supply strategies for the mitigation of effects on the water cycles due to human settlements and climate change. In particular, the integration of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) into urban drainage systems, the use of alternative water resources, and the reduction of losses and waste, make citi

Technologies and platforms for Artificial Intelligence (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/technologies-and-platforms-for-artificial-intelligence

This course will address the hardware technologies for machine and deep learning (from the units of an Internet-of-Things system to a large-scale data centers) and will explore the families of machine and deep learning platforms (libraries and frameworks) for the design and development of smart applications and systems.

Trustworthy AI for Healthcare Management (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/trustworthy-ai-for-healthcare-management

This MOOC gives an introduction to trustworthy artificial intelligence and its application in healthcare. This includes modules on basics of artificial intelligence and an introduction to trustworthy and ethical applications of artificial intelligence. A dedicated lesson will present the Z-Inspection® process for assessing trustworthy AI, and real-world case studies will illustrate how to apply the knowledge. The course is aimed at healthcare professionals, patients, and AI practitioners. It d

Water: an essential resource (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/water-an-essential-resource

One of the most obvious claims in our everyday life is the importance of water, often called the blue gold. Anyway, we are often incapable of shifting this importance in tangible actions aimed at protecting this resource and optimizing its use. Past and present anthropic pressure has heavily impaired fresh water, usually supplied for drinking water production. Water utilities and water-treatment practitioners were unprepared to effectively face the challenge of a growing high-quality water deman