Ex-Stanford Teacher’s New Startup Brings University-Level Education To All [TCTV] Using Khan Academy as inspiration, Sebastian Thrun decided to bring his Stanford class on artificial intelligence online.
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Anyone could sign up for free. And 160,000 people from around the world did. Udacity and the future of online universities. The most exciting (but also, in a small way, slightly depressing) presentation at DLD this year came from Sebastian Thrun, of Stanford and Google.
Or formerly of Stanford, anyway. Thrun told the story of his Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class, which ran from October to December last year. It started as a way of putting his Stanford course online — he was going to teach the whole thing, for free, to anybody in the world who wanted it. Udacity - Educating the 21st Century.