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

[Richard Houser]

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.
On Aug 11, 2011 7:19 PM, "Jennifer Crampton" <crampton.jennifer at gmail.com>
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 <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."/
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *---------------------------------------------*
>>> * Frank Dolinarfrank.dolinar at comcast.net  *
>>> * PO Box 886                     517.351.1899 *
>>> * East Lansing, MI 48826                      *
>>> *---------------------------------------------*
>>>
>>>
>>>
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