xml-dev.com — Who wants to pay for Stanford's Crypto Course, when University of Washington has made the whole Cryptography Course available on-line for free. Yes, all the presentations, videos (mp3, WMV), homework, quizzes etc. are available on-line. The material seems pretty decent, and is intended for advance audience.
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aidenagJun 3, 2006
i gotta digg it, cause i live a mile from the building this class takes place in..
reldrenJun 4, 2006
Submitter should try a remedial English class first. As should most of you other stinking mongoloids.
burdJun 4, 2006
This particular course is a "professional masters" course. This is a program that is offered for part-time students holding down jobs in local industry (read: Microsoft). Some of these "CSEP590TU" courses have been fantastic, pulling in speakers that are experts at the top of their game. They are in no way canned material being taught for the Nth time, and in that sense often exceed the quality of the courses in the fulltime graduate program.With regard to the effect of Microsoft money, it's hard to miss the fact that there is such support when the building itself is the "Paul G Allen Center." Allen's fortune is indeed a Microsoft fortune, and Microsoft and Gates and other top Microsoft execs have also contributed large chunks of money. There is, however, not a lot of pressure to put Microsoft software into either the classroom or the server room. What is true is that there is a lot of collaboration between our students and researchers and Microsoft Research and that a lot of UW CSE students intern at Microsoft.As far as rankings are concerned, there are four top Computer Science programs: MIT, Stanford, CMU, and UC Berkeley. UW CSE nor any other program seems close to displacing a member of or joining the ranks of those four. But it's one of the four or five buzzards circling that crowd looking for signs of weakness. Anyway, rankings, schmankings. What counts for a student is the quality of the experience. UW CSE undergrads are largely taught by UW CSE faculty members, something not always true at the top four. To judge from the instructor ratings, that experience is top notch.I'm staff at UW CSE.
spooqJun 4, 2006
Its cool that you're smart enough to use nested parentheses, but devil-may-care enough to not notice if they match... pure genius, man.
i82muchJun 4, 2006
This is a great link, thanks so much. I took CS 101 last semester and an introduction to mathematical reasoning course, so I had exposure to encryption twice. I wrote about RSA encryption for my final research paper in Math, so this stuff makes a little more sense to me than it otherwise would have.Definitely going to be watching and reading this for awhile