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Hi, everyone,<br>
FYI, this came down the wire last night.<br>
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<h2 class="story"> <span id="title-22904644"> <a
href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/04/1646210/Stanford-Intro-To-AI-Course-Offered-Free-Online">Stanford
'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online</a></span> </h2>
<div class="details" id="details-22904644"> Posted by <a
href="http://unknownlamer.org/" rel="nofollow">Unknown Lamer</a>
<time id="fhtime-22904644" datetime="on Thursday August 04,
@01:20PM">on Thursday August 04, @01:20PM <br>
from the i'm-afraid-i-can't-let-you-do-that dept. </time> </div>
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<div id="text-22904644" class="p"> An anonymous reader writes <i>"IEEE
Spectrum reports that Stanford's CS221 course '<a
href="http://www.ai-class.com/">Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence</a>' will be offered online for free. <a
href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/you-you-can-take-stanfords-intro-to-ai-course-next-quarter-for-free">Anyone
can sign up and take the course</a>, along with several
hundred Stanford undergrads. The instructors are <a
href="http://robots.stanford.edu/">Sebastian Thrun</a>,
known for <a
href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/02/1529237/Googles-Driverless-Car-and-the-Logic-of-Safety">his
self-driving cars</a>, and <a href="http://norvig.com/">Peter
Norvig</a>, director of research at Google. Online
students will actually have to do all the same work as the
Stanford students. There will be at least 10 hours per week
of studying, along with weekly graded homework assignments
and midterm and final exams. The instructors, who will be
available to answer questions, will issue a certificate for
those who complete the course, along with a final grade that
can be compared to the grades of the Stanford students. The
course, which will last 10 weeks, starts on October 2nd, and
online enrollment is now open."</i>
When asked how they would deal with ten thousand students,
Professor Thrun replied:
<i>"We will use something akin to <a
href="http://www.google.com/moderator/">Google Moderator</a>
to make sure Peter and I answer the most pressing questions.
Our hypothesis is that even in a class of 10,000, there will
only be a fixed number of really interesting questions (like
15 per week). There exist tools to find them."</i></div>
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