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MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks

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Re: MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks

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Somewhat unrelated, but - is it just me or do other people notice too, that whenever a major university publishes course materials online, the instructors there are normally very young? It wasn't like that a while ago, e.g. when Coursera started, or it is not like that if you look at older MIT videos. Does it reflect university teachers getting younger? Or younger teachers tend to give more effort to putting everythi…

From my experience at uni, it was the young teachers that cared. Older ones would go through motions, teaching us what was the state of programming 20-30 years ago ;)

Re: MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can find PDFs of the lectures as well as the reading list here: https://shd.mit.edu/2025/calendar.html https://shd.mit.edu/2025/lectureReadings.html

Thanks, but it looks like the videos aren't available, so I'm not sure why the title says "open source".

It looks like they mean that the curriculum is open source. Hopefully we'll eventually get lecture videos on MIT OCW.
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