Courtesy: NY Times
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: August 15, 2011
PALO ALTO, Calif. — A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58,000 students around the globe — a class nearly four times the size of Stanford’s entire student body.
The course is one of three being offered experimentally by the Stanford computer science department to extend technology knowledge and skills beyond this elite campus to the entire world, the university is announcing on Tuesday.
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Providing education to the whole world at a large scale will only enhance the knowledge base of humanity leading to more innovation and progress. It is a noble test and should be pursued by all prestigious education institutions so no single country feel they it has a monopoly on knowledge of specific subject. I read someone there are two things that increase when you share – love and knowledge. Let us share both.
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