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.

Comments

Internet Of Exploits

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

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?"

Re:Internet Of Exploits

[dbIII]

That's probably a good reason for such courses. At least warn them of the utter newbie mistakes that a competent software developer and starting sysadmin knows not to make.
I keep on bumping into "developers" that keep on making swarms of WiFi things all on the same IPv4 subnet as everyone else and all trying to talk to the same access point instead of having a mesh - and they keep assuming they can have thousands of the things so long as they have routing hacks. They want to know how to deal with fifteen things having an IP address of 10.0.0.25 instead of doing the absolute obvious of not having lots of things on the same IP address. Even worse are the things that sit and collect critical data offline until it's time to dump what they have so the network is turned on, just in time to find out that they have been sitting there for a week collecting nothing. Such devices could have a function to allow waking them up to do some sort of check but the software developer never thought of it. The field is full of utter newbie mistakes, rush jobs and functions added as an afterthought.

The people to talk to at the moment appear to be the radio astronomers who have networked astonishing numbers of devices and are doing it well.

Re:Why the ignorant as shit term "internet of thin

[UnknownSoldier]

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

Oooh...a Shiny Certificate!

[Irate Engineer]

And they get a nice certificate "Introductory Diploma, Internet Of Things" that the can hang on their wall.

Re:A Continuing Education Unit is ...

[0100010001010011]

My wife is a doctor and gets a $10k stipend each year for continuing education. The "IoT" is coming to medicine. It might be worth it to have some Doctors in the loop with that conversation.

It's apparent they didn't when designing electronic medical records.

His name... is Tim

[wonkey_monkey]

Tim Berners-Lee

who I recently heard likes to refer to himself as "web developer."

Internet of Things and security ..

[tetraverse]

Have they managed to fix the hacking phishing pestilence that's infesting the current Internet?