Stanford Artificial Intelligence course draws avalanche of sign-ups
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 04:30
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- A whopping 58,000, [the number keeps climbing; this is a conservative total] people have signed up for a single free online course at Stanford. People from around the worldof high school age, adults, and elderlywant to do this one course. The freebie is on Artificial Intelligence. The two professors teaching the course have exceptional calling cards as AI experts. They are Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun.