[GLLUG] Stanford -- Intro to AI course -- available free online

[Frank Dolinar]

Hi, everyone,
     FYI, this came down the wire last night.


    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>


Posted by Unknown Lamer <http://unknownlamer.org/> 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 
<http://www.ai-class.com/>' will be offered online for free. Anyone can 
sign up and take the course 
<http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/you-you-can-take-stanfords-intro-to-ai-course-next-quarter-for-free>, 
along with several hundred Stanford undergrads. The instructors are 
Sebastian Thrun <http://robots.stanford.edu/>, known for his 
self-driving cars 
<https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/02/1529237/Googles-Driverless-Car-and-the-Logic-of-Safety>, 
and Peter Norvig <http://norvig.com/>, 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 <http://www.google.com/moderator/> 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."/


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