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

Richard Houser rick at divinesymphony.net
Thu Aug 11 18:16:43 EDT 2011


I enrolled last week.  Already got a book lined up.
On Aug 11, 2011 6:01 PM, "Frank Dolinar" <frank.dolinar at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi, everyone,
>     FYI, this came down the wire last night.
>
> Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online
> Posted by Unknown Lamer 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' will be offered online for
free. Anyone can sign up and take the course, along with several hundred
Stanford undergrads. The instructors are Sebastian Thrun, known for his
self-driving cars, and Peter Norvig, 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 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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