He is offering his "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course online and free of charge.
A hundred and sixty thousand students in a hundred and ninety countries signed up for Sebastian Thrun's online Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class.
In his Op-Ed column "The University of Wherever," Bill Keller writes about the Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun, who is offering his "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course online and free of charge: Thrun's ultimate mission is a virtual university in which the best professors broadcast their lectures to tens of thousands of students.
Ever since the German computer scientist Sebastian Thrun sent out an e-mail in 2011 announcing that his "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course at Stanford University in California would be available free online, the education world has been both enthralled and terrified by the advent of massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
"This has caught all of us by surprise," says David Stavens, who formed a company called Udacity with Sebastian Thrun and Michael Sokolsky after more than 150,000 signed up for Dr. Thrun's "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" last fall, starting the revolution that has higher education gasping.
The class was Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and I can't say I really knew what I would be getting in to, but computers that could understand human speech and cars that could drive themselves sounded pretty cool.
This chapter provides an introduction to component methodologies computational intelligence (CI), including artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computation.
We learned from "The Introduction to Metaphysics" that intelligence consists precisely in an analytic, external, hence essentially practical and spatialized approach to the world.
In [17], Chen et al. give a brief introduction to the big data analytics of business intelligence (BI) from the perspective of evolution, applications, and emerging research topics.
Bodyguard of Lies opens with an introduction to Ultra, the codename for decrypted signals intelligence.
This study provides a general introduction to the principles, algorithms and practice of Computational Intelligence (CI) and elaborates on their use to signal processing and time series.
