From: Stanford Online<[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Fall 2013 Courses from Stanford Online Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 01:11:17 +0000 2 To participate in these free public courses developed by Stanford faculty, please visit the course web page. You can find out more about Stanford programs and the courses we offer at online.stanford.edu. Sustainable Product Development Dariush Rafinejad Starting August 26th This course focuses on strategies for the development of sustainable products and manufacturing processes from the perspective of senior executives. Course participants will form teams and develop a new sustainable product, or undertake field study projects to gain firsthand experience with sustainability practices in a company. The course will run for six weeks. Find out more Algorithms: Design and Analysis Part 2 Tim Roughgarden Starting September 2 This course focuses on fundamental principles of advanced algorithm design, including the greedy algorithm design paradigm, with applications to computing good network backbones and good codes for data compression. The course assumes familiarity with the topics from Part I—especially asymptotic analysis, basic data structures, and basic graph algorithms. The course will consist of lecture videos, integrated quizzes, standalone homework assignments and a final exam. A version of this course is taught to Stanford sophomore, EFTA01143049