Professor Resigns From Stanford To Launch Online Education Project

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 23, 2012 @09:30AM from the distributing-bits-of-knowledge dept.

mikejuk writes "Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity — an online educational venture. Udacity's first two free courses are Building a Search Engine and Programming a Robotic Car. In a moving speech at the Digital Life Design conference, he explained that after presenting the online AI course to thousands of students he could no longer teach at Stanford: 'Now that I saw the true power of education, there is no turning back. It's like a drug. I won't be able to teach 200 students again, in a conventional classroom setting.' Let's hope Udacity works out; Stanford is a tough act to follow."

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Re:Khan by AchilleTalon · 2012-01-23 09:38 · Score: 4, Informative

Of course he did, he teamed with Khan and relied on him for some parts of the AI course teaching prerequisite maths and probabilistic theory.

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Re:That was unexpected by flabbergast · 2012-01-23 10:09 · Score: 3, Informative

Wasn't this every CS department though in the 80's and the 90's? AI in that time was all about expert systems and predicate calculus.