I probably won't be available for a regular local study group, but we'll see. I live outside of town and my schedule isn't exactly regular. I may be able to do something ad-hoc once or twice, though. <div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 11, 2011 7:19 PM, "Jennifer Crampton" <<a href="mailto:crampton.jennifer@gmail.com">crampton.jennifer@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I'm strongly thinking of signing up. Maybe we could have a local study > group, too? > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Bryan Laur <<a href="mailto:bjlaur@mtu.edu">bjlaur@mtu.edu</a>> wrote: >> Thanks. This is interesting. >> >> Although I've already taken an AI course, I've signed up just to see how >> well this works. >> >> >> >> On 8/11/2011 6:01 PM, Frank Dolinar wrote: >>> >>> Hi, everyone, >>> FYI, this came down the wire last night. >>> >>> >>> Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online >>> >>> <<a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/04/1646210/Stanford-Intro-To-AI-Course-Offered-Free-Online">http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/04/1646210/Stanford-Intro-To-AI-Course-Offered-Free-Online</a>> >>> >>> >>> Posted by Unknown Lamer <<a href="http://unknownlamer.org/">http://unknownlamer.org/</a>> on Thursday August >>> 04, @01:20PM >>> from the i'm-afraid-i-can't-let-you-do-that dept. >>> An anonymous reader writes /"IEEE Spectrum reports that Stanford's CS221 >>> course 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence >>> <<a href="http://www.ai-class.com/">http://www.ai-class.com/</a>>' will be offered online for free. Anyone can >>> sign up and take the course >>> >>> <<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/you-you-can-take-stanfords-intro-to-ai-course-next-quarter-for-free">http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/you-you-can-take-stanfords-intro-to-ai-course-next-quarter-for-free</a>>, >>> along with several hundred Stanford undergrads. The instructors are >>> Sebastian Thrun <<a href="http://robots.stanford.edu/">http://robots.stanford.edu/</a>>, known for his >>> self-driving cars >>> >>> <<a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/02/1529237/Googles-Driverless-Car-and-the-Logic-of-Safety">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/02/1529237/Googles-Driverless-Car-and-the-Logic-of-Safety</a>>, >>> and Peter Norvig <<a href="http://norvig.com/">http://norvig.com/</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."/ When asked how they would deal with ten >>> thousand students, Professor Thrun replied: /"We will use something akin >>> to Google Moderator <<a href="http://www.google.com/moderator/">http://www.google.com/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."/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *---------------------------------------------* >>> * Frank <a href="mailto:Dolinarfrank.dolinar@comcast.net">Dolinarfrank.dolinar@comcast.net</a> * >>> * PO Box 886 517.351.1899 * >>> * East Lansing, MI 48826 * >>> *---------------------------------------------* >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> linux-user mailing list >>> <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> >>> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linux-user mailing list >> <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> >> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> >> > _______________________________________________ > linux-user mailing list > <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> > <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </div>