Stanford organizes a free online course on AI

Stanford University is organizing a free online CS221 course on artificial intelligence this fall. The course will run from October 2 to December 16.



CS221 is an introductory course in the basics of artificial intelligence. It describes the basic elements of artificial intelligence, such as knowledge representation, inference, machine learning, planning and games, information retrieval, machine vision and robotics.



The ten-week course includes about twenty lectures, about eight homework assignments, one intermediate and one final exam.



The course will be taught by Sebastian Tran and Peter Norvig, who will give online lectures and are said to even be available for online discussions. Participants in the online course will be assessed as ordinary Stanford students and will receive a certificate of attendance (though not Stanford, but on behalf of Tran and Norvig).

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Tran is a computer science professor at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is probably best known as the leading developer of a self-driving car at Google.



Norvig holds the position of research director at Google and co-authored the main text of the course “ Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach ” ( Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach ).



Registration will open later this month and will be closed on September 10, but for now you can leave your email address for alerts on ai-class.com .



via ReadWriteWeb