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Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free
- cpfohl 15y agoEach class has been announced individually, thought I'd give the full list.
- misuse-permit 15y agoThanks for this. Do you know why the courses aren't all hosted on Standford.edu, though?
- cpfohl 15y agoYeah, see the above comments about how these classes are different from the www.(ai|db|ml)-class.com classes. They're not quite the same thing (albeit, they're quite similar).
- Stwerner 15y agoThanks. I've known about the iPhone application programming course from previous semesters, so this looks promising that they may offer it again this fall. I didn't have a mac until recently, so it will be nice if they do since xcode has changed a lot from what the courses available to download now use.
- drallison 15y agoHN readers may enjoy EE380, the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium. It is listed in this article, but is easily overlooked. The Colloquium meets w4:15-5:30 throughout the academic year and moves re-runs during summer quarter. Lectures can be seen live, viewed in real-time over the web, viewed on-demand over the web, and eventually find their way onto YouTube, iTunes, and elsewhere. http://ee380.stanford.edu http://ee380.stanford.edu.
- hvass 15y ago2. How is SEE being funded? SEE’s pilot program was funded by Sequoia Capital, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that helped launch Cisco, Google, Yahoo, NVidia and many other successful technology startups. They deserve a shoutout.
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- rauljara 15y agoJust to clarify: These aren't the same thing as the ai-class (http://www.ai-class.com http://www.ai-class.com) that has gotten all the buzz. This program has been around for a while and only(1) offers downloadable materials (videos of lectures + pdfs of assignments/handouts etc.) (1) "only" seems a terrible way of putting it. The materials/lecturers are amazing even if you never have your assignments graded.
- cpfohl 15y agothanks, I totally didn't notice that!
- nirvana 15y agoThe Machine Learning, and Databases classes are like the AI class on the new system, with quizzes and a statement from the professor about how you did at the end. At least the intro videos for the ML class stated as such and I got that impression from the database class as well.
- thisuser 15y agoAm I the only one yearning for the convex optimization I & II classes to be offered in the new style?
- dvse 15y agoIndeed, best courses on SEE by quite a wide margin.
- dsimms 15y agoI took those via HCP (which is like SEE but for 3x the usual grad student rate) and he's a great teacher. He's not one to let his smarts get in the way of teaching, which is not true of all the professors at Stanford.
- EvanKelly 15y agoI would love to take a second shot at a convex optimization course. I took one from a former PhD student of Boyd's during my junior year of college and I was not at the right point in my education for a class like that. It touched on some really great real world optimization problems, including an interesting couple of lectures on the Netflix prize.
- dvse 15y agoThese materials have actually been released in late 2008 - the three new courses will follow a completely different arrangement.
- thebandrews 15y agoAs universities offer more and more curriculum online, would you hire someone who had self taught himself through a CS degree? Or would you want to see the diploma?
- nirvana 15y agoI've found little correlation between diplomas and effectiveness as a programmer in my hiring. So, that includes people who are self taught. I may be in the minority, and I think that people who have diplomas sometimes have the opinion that anyone who didn't go thru the pain they went thru is missing something.
- silverbax88 15y agoditto for me. I've actually found after years of interviewing that on average, self-taught programmers are almost always better. Not always true of course, but usually true.
- __rkaup__ 15y agoInteresting. I wonder how much that skews hiring, including in other fields.
- coecoventures 15y agoI'm an old dog so there were no CS classes at my middle school when I started programming. Naturally I have a bias towards those who took matters into their own hands and are self-taught.
- steve_b 15y agoI have a huge bias towards self-learning. Most people I know get a degree/diploma to get a job. The people who self-teach are doing it more because they're curious cats. I'll take the curious cat.
- araneae 15y agoI'm self taught and I'm pretty terrible. The kids who went to school with me but majored in C.S. are pretty rockstar and work at Google et al.
- rogk11 15y ago67,026 people have signed up for ai-class The largest class ever ...
- theclay 15y agoThis is the future of education. Stanford is just the tip of the iceberg.
- araneae 15y agoThis is the database one: http://www.db-class.org/ http://www.db-class.org/
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- ThomPete 15y agoAll the HCI semesters I think back from 2007 have been available on itunes University forever. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=384230043 http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcas...
- anthonycerra 15y agoThis is amazing to me. It hints at a new business model for education. Give away the education and charge for accreditation.
- guildchatter 15y agoHN study group? =]
- ImprovedSilence 15y agohaha that would totally be worth it, as well as provide a little extra motovation to finish.
- suyash 15y agoThe iPhone class is from Winter' 2010. Any updates for Fall'2011 version?
- cpfohl 15y agoHas anyone taken these courses and is willing to offer a review?
- kpierre 15y agohow to watch this without itunes? and what is this itunes thing, by the way?
- dennyferra 15y agoiTunes has iTunes University where a lot of educational videos can be found. If I'm not mistaken you can find the same videos on YouTube at Stanford's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity
- ishu161 15y agoYou can also view them on this site: http://www.cosmolearning.com/ http://www.cosmolearning.com/ in the computer science department. I've found this site to be really helpful. Many of the universities' lectures that are available online have been submitted here. makes much easier to find them.And I occasionally run into some pretty interesting documentaries and stuff. ;)
- DrHankPym 15y agoStep One: Learn Bayes' Theorem
- coecoventures 15y agoSearching on iTunes U doesn't always return these courses. Thankfully there is an iTunes link available from the lectures link on Course page.
- arpit 15y agoBooo....the video is in Silverlight.I cant watch it on any of the devices I own (besides a desktop :( )
- ardakara 15y agoI'm sorry for that. We had to build it in Silverlight at the time since Microsoft was a significant contributor to Stanford Center for Professional Development. However, you can also find the same original material on YouTube, iTunes or BitTorrent.
- shixx1521 15y agowetgwew
- badalyan 15y agoHarvard: http://cs50.tv/2010/fall/ http://cs50.tv/2010/fall/
- Tichy 15y agoI just saw that the Machine Learning course mentions homework assignments involving Matlab. Might there be a way to use some open source software instead? I have no experience with Matlab, and not being a student anymore it could be expensive to buy.
- vancouveryou 15y agoAnyone have any idea if either the AI or ML course might help someone interested in building Watson Jr? https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/InsideSystemStorage/entry/ibm_watson_how_to_build_your_own_watson_jr_in_your_basement7?lang=en https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/In...
- skrebbel 15y agoI don't understand this move. To study at a renowned US university, you need to cough up a forture. To learn exactly the same but not get a piece of paper that says you did it, you can just take the classes online. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for free stuff, but I'd feel pretty cheated if I'd be attending Stanford on half my relatives' latest savings and they use my contribution to give it all to freeloaders. Note, I'm not against it per se, I just don't get it. Isn't this very unfair to the people paying the bill? Can someone explain the reasoning behind it so I can stop complaining about this? :-)