Former Stanford professor to teach 500k students how to build a search engine in 7 weeks
Last year, Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun offered an online course on Artificial Intelligence for any internet-connected students from around the world, and close to 160,000 people took part in the course.
This year, Professor Thrun has quit Stanford and will be running a 7-week course on how to build a search engine to anyone with or without previous programming experience. While the reasons why Professor Thrun has quit Stanford is unclear, it is amazing he is equipping, and empowering, so many people with computer programming skills and fundamentally changing the dynamics of how higher education is delivered.
For anyone interested, his course is starting in February 2012 and you can sign up at Udacity.com.
(Source: siliconfilter.com)
