position:artificial intelligence professor

  • Sebastian Thrun Aims to Revolutionize #University #Education With Udacity
    http://singularityhub.com/2012/01/28/sebastian-thrun-aims-to-revolutionize-university-education-with-udac

    Udacity, the online university created by Stanford artificial intelligence professor and Google autonomous vehicle leader, Sebastian Thrun. At the time Thrun was gearing up to teach his Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course to a class of 200 at Stanford. (...) Thrun and fellow AI giant Peter Norvig created an online version of the course, and anyone that wanted to enroll could – for free. (...)
    Online, the course went viral. Over 100,000 people enrolled in the initial weeks. By the time the lessons began Thrun and Norvig were instructors for a class size of 160,000. With students all over the world, they enlisted the help of some 2,000 volunteer translators to translate the classes into 44 different languages. Discussion groups were set up on social networks like Facebook so students could help each other, forming what Thrun called an “entire counterculture.”

    #enseignement #informatique #intelligence_artificielle