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MIT To Offer Internet of Things Training For Professionals (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes: MIT is offering an online course about the Internet of Things, and this is what you need to know up front: It's going to require, perhaps, six to eight hours of study time a week, which includes watching videos of lectures, engaging with faculty and fellow students in forums and taking tests. It begins April 12 and continues through May 24. It costs $495, and unlike some online courses, there is no free option. Students who complete the program and pass the tests earn a certificate of completion and 1.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) in MIT's professional education program. In exchange for their time and money, students will get an introduction, a roadmap, into the IoT and hear from some of the university's top professors, including Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web. This professional program is a relatively new effort for the university.
Things with internet. Exam on Tuesday.
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It has to the be worst buzzword/phrase in the history of the net. Some dyslexic ass dude must have been high.
Simpler term. Internet. No need for the stupid "of things" moniker.
"A Continuing Education Unit is a measure used in continuing education programs, particularly those required in a licensed profession. A CEU is not an academic credit; however, it is a nationally recognized method of quantifying the time spent in the classroom during professional development and training activities."
So in other words: "A Continuing Education Unit is ... worthless as shit for a software engineer or electrical engineer, since neither of these are licensed professions".
Good to know. Thanks for 1.2 of them, MIT, especially at the low, low price of $495.00!!!
April?
And how is this 'Internet of Things' supposed to function given the current lack of Internet security, yet more marketing waffle similar to the 'cloud'. Besides, does anyone remember that coke machine that was once connected to the Internet ref.
They should name the course, "Internet Of Cheaply Made Shit With Built-In Exploits".
Hackers everywhere are wetting their pants in expectation of this enormous, unbounded gift of a billion new things to hijack, spoof, and abuse. Because we all know that "security" will be an afterthought, if it's thought of at all.
"I'll be in late today, boss, my refrigerator got hacked again and they made it order 10,000 gallons of soy milk off of Amazon. Oh, and while they were at it they took over my TV and it won't stop showing kiddie porn. And for some reason all of my internet-enabled toilets just keep flushing and flushing and flushing, I can't get 'em to stop...hey, why is my car blowing its horn over and over?"
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Designnews.com has been having no charge video presentations on several aspects of IoT and has an archive of past presentations you can get to from their main web page. These were not prepared by academics but by engineers who are hired by industry to enhance their appliances with web features.
Indeed. Why don't we just call it what it really is ...
IoT
Internet of Trash
D.U.M.B.
Devices Unsecured Mostly Broken.
I.D.I.O.T.S.
Insecure Devices Internetworked Offering Trouble
It seriously needs a new abbreviation. Every time I see IoT, I read it as LoT because the capital 'i' looks like a lowercase L. They should change the 'I' to lowercase 'i'.
ioT --- still not perfect, but more understandable.
Won't be any of that crap in my house anyway. If it comes with it already installed, I'll do everything I can to disable it or remove it. If it won't work without being connected, I don't want it.
Agreed. I have less devices connected now that I did few years ago, not more.
Lets see, I currently have my computer (one laptop), smart phone and roku. That's it. I have more devices that could connect, but they aren't, and they won't.
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Class 1: Just don't do it. Students will be hit on the back of the head.
Class 2: Are you stupid? Students will be hit on the back of the head.
Class 3: It's a bad idea. Students will be hit on the back of the head.
It goes on like this for class after class, except for the last day
Class 45: Just kill yourself. Students will be handed an internet enabled gun.
From the FAQ: ...the course is open to any interested participant. No advance reading is required."
"Are there prerequisites or advance reading materials?
[Answer]
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If you're of a technical bent, this course won't teach you how to solder or program IoT devices. Seems mostly theoretical video lectures, with no technical hardware/software training involved. The only concrete course takeaways are PDFs and wiki content.
Which is a shame really. I'd pay good money for course that said: "you'll get a trial version of the IAR compiler and use it to program Texas Instrument IoT kit XXXX".
Or even "you get the $5 RasberryPi Zero module, and a $2 temperature and humidity sensor. You plug the zero into your internet router, and have it message you to carry an umbrella if rain is predicted".
Don't.
There. Saved you 5 hundred Washingtons.
Hopefully this course includes a section on security. Doesn't look like it will, as a professional course, it looks more aimed at business people.
In fact,if they made the course entirely about security, the world would be better off.
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And believe me, there are a lot of fucking people online who are very interested in watching you make kaka. Like all of California.
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Ha ha
And they get a nice certificate "Introductory Diploma, Internet Of Things" that the can hang on their wall.
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well they had to get the I at the front.
and Things On Internet would have made too much sense.
so they decided to go with Internet of Things. maybe actually someone thought that they would put them on a separate network or that the things would network with each other. which would make a lot more sense than to have them all on internet.
your temperature sensors interacting with your temperature display for example makes perfect engineering sense. both of them interacting with a hardware manufacturers server on a different fucking continent makes zero sense at all.
I guess the funny thing is that if you want to buy Wifi connected plugs, sensors and stuff. or even low power networking components, you can buy so frigging much of them for 500 bucks and you might actually learn something.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
What's the over/under on how long after May 24 the classes appear on a torrent site?
Hopefully this course includes a section on security. Doesn't look like it will
???
That page says:
Section D: Security in IOT
lol looks like I need to read more carefully
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Courses are obsolete. Unless they are the kind that needs access to a scientific lab with special equipment. Just read a good book, solve lots of exercise problems, and do a project or two. And now with google search around, you don't need 'experts' or teachers to clarify doubts.
Tim Berners-Lee
who I recently heard likes to refer to himself as "web developer."
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Have they managed to fix the hacking phishing pestilence that's infesting the current Internet?
When does the "synergy for end-to-end enterprise web 2.0 solutions" course start?
Now, I would put down good money to become an expert on Internet of Things 2.0. But old fashioned Internet of Things? Get real!
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All other things being equal, I'd give raises and promotions to the people who demonstrate that they have a continuing interest in learning more and keeping abreast about subjects relevant to their field than someone who thinks that once they get their degree, they never have to learn anything else. So if you think that "quantifying the time spent in the classroom during professional development and training activities" = "worthless as shit", then hey, it's your résumé, good luck with that.
(Of course, that's just the practical monetary consideration of the matter. Some of us actually like doing these classes just to see what's new and to *gasp!* expand our horizons.)
is they're cheep, and designed to be replaced every 2 years.
When it's easier to force everyone to upgrade to the latest version of your electronic thingy than it is to offer a patch to all to fix a security bug in the software, or worse, a physical bug in the hardware, the buying public will come quickly around to seeing IoT as a marking gimmick not worth the time or money.
A good real world example is that I have a Sony Blu Ray player (BDP-BX320, purchased @ Costco for less than $80). Sony stopped updating the software on the device, and for no discernible reason all the remote streaming videos are at normal resolution (local streaming videos from my DNLA setup are at 1080p). Sony stopped updating the BX320 because it is a money pit for them to do so.
Now, imaging your front door lock has a known physical bug with BlueTooth that allows anyone to unlock your front door if they know the trick. Will the lock company issue a recall on all the locks that where sold 5 years ago? Will they offer a patch to all locks sold on the market five years ago, 5? How about back across all hardware revisions? Who will pay for the replacement locks? Locksmith time for the non-technical? You, the consumer or Amce Corp?
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You're right, that is cause for concern.
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