Khan Academy founder Sal Khan and
Stanford professors Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun


“Thrun says he can no longer teach at Stanford University.
He says he was presented with the red pill and the blue pill.
“You can take the blue pill and go back to your lecture of 20 students.

But I’ve taken the red pill and seen wonderland.”

From Sebastian’s Welcome! page:
“One of the most amazing things I’ve ever done in my life is to teach a class to 160,000 students. In the Fall of 2011, Peter Norvig and I decided to offer our class “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” to the world online, free of charge. We spent endless nights recording ourselves on video, and interacting with tens of thousands of students. Volunteer students translated some of our classes into over 40 languages; and in the end we graduated over 23,000 students from 190 countries. In fact, Peter and I taught more students AI, than all AI professors in the world combined. This one class had more educational impact than my entire career.”

  • Source: SeekerBlog.com
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    From Sebastian


    Artificial Intelligence:
    IJCAI,
    AAAI,
    AI Journal,
    JAIR,
    AI links

    Machine Learning:
    NIPS,
    ICML,
    Snowbird meeting
    Machine Learning,
    JMLR

    Robotics:
    ISRR,
    ISER,
    WAFR,
    FSR,
    ICRA, IROS,
    other meetings,
    IJRR, and
    Autonomous Robots.

    Funding Agencies::
    NSF,
    DARPA,
    HSARPA,
    ONR,
    NIH

    Stanford:
    Stanford,
    Computer Science,
    AI Lab, and
    Stanford-Who.

    News:
    NY Times,
    CNN,
    Tagesthemen

    Mail:
    UPS,
    FedEx

    Search:
    Google,
    Lycos,
    Altavista,
    Babelfish,
    Dictionary,
    E-Britannica, and
    CiteSeer.

    Maps:
    Virtual tourist,
    MapQuest,
    Topozone,
    CIA World Factbook, and earthquakes in
    Bay Area and
    California

    Travel:
    Travelocity,
    Orbitz, and
    ITA.

    Weather:
    SFO,
    Stanford,
    SFO-by-region, and
    CA.

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