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

[Jennifer Crampton]

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 <bjlaur at mtu.edu> 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
>>
>>  <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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>> * Frank Dolinarfrank.dolinar at comcast.net  *
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>> * East Lansing, MI 48826                      *
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>>
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