Stanford University is experimenting with distributed education.
They will be offering three free online classes this Fall 2011.
Students will have access to lecture videos, receive regular feedback on progress, and receive answers to questions. When you successfully complete this class, you will also receive a statement of accomplishment.
The online classes will begin this upcoming October 10th and run through December 16th. Be sure you have a high speed internet connection since most of the course content will be video.
These are the 3 classes available this Fall:
Introduction to Databases
Databases! Who wants to learn about databases?
I do.
With so much of the web driven by databases, I’m signing up for this one!
Here’s a little information about the instructor:
Professor Jennifer Widom is the Fletcher Jones Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. She received her Bachelors degree from the Indiana University School of Music in 1982 and her Computer Science Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1987.
About the Databases class:
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I can’t wait!
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
How cool does this look!?!
Think: Self-driven cars and Google Goggles. It’s about making computer software that can reason about the world around it.
This class is being taught be two professors:
Sebastian Thrun is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, a Google Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the German Academy of Sciences.
Peter Norvig is Director of Research at Google Inc. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery.
About the Artificial Intelligence class:
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Awesome.
Introduction to Machine Learning
Machine learning is about … machine’s learning!
IT’s the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed.
Have you seen the professor’s YouTube videos?
Professor Andrew Ng is Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, the main AI research organization at Stanford, with 20 professors and about 150 students/post docs. At Stanford, he teaches Machine Learning, which with a typical enrollment of 350 Stanford students, is among the most popular classes on campus. His research is primarily on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotics, and most universities doing robotics research now do so using a software platform (ROS) from his group.
About the Machine Learning class:
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Fun!
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Official registration opens later this Summer, however, you can submit your name and email, and they will contact you when registration is available.
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