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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I said it elsewhere... by mark-t · 2012-01-23 09:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

... and I'll say it here.
There was an international cooperation of people running websites all over the world protesting SOPA in the USA... how many will do likewise for Canada?

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