Tag Archives: Stanford University

The audacity of Udacity

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

Stanford computer scientist Sebastian Thrun is shaking up the world of higher education again. You may remember that he was part of an initiative last fall that offered three free Stanford computer science courses to the world. More than 160,000 … Continue reading →

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Enrollment opens for 14 new free Stanford courses

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

This past fall Stanford University began a bold experiment, offering 3 free online computer science classes in a new and intriguing format. Now the experiment continues, with 14 more courses planned for early 2012, available at the Coursera website. Enrollment … Continue reading →

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Chaos helps explain biology

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

I’ve raved before about Robert Sapolsky’s fantastic Stanford course Human Behavioral Biology (iTunes), but I have to draw your attention to two stand-out lectures near the end of the course. In lectures 21 and 22, Sapolsky talks about how the … Continue reading →

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Stanford’s OpenClassroom now online

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

Stanford University’s new OpenClassroom website is now online. This website, which features free non-credit university courses delivered via short videos, is being used for three widely publicized free computer science courses being offered this fall. Additional computer science and math … Continue reading →

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Harvard, MIT & Stanford introduce computer science to the world

Posted on September 4, 2011 by

In the 1970s I worked for a few years as a computer programmer, writing applications in the now obsolete COBOL language on an IBM mainframe that had a whopping one megabyte of memory. It was clearly the stone age of … Continue reading →

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Get a grade and a certificate from free Stanford AI course

Posted on August 2, 2011 by

In what may be a first in free online courses, two Stanford University computer science profs are offering a popular Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course via the web, and you can get a certificate (but not college credit) and a … Continue reading →

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A great human biology course

Posted on February 8, 2011 by

If you like your science spiced with drama, Robert Sapolsky is the professor for you. In his Stanford University course Human Behavioral Biology (iTunes), he serves up nature in all its gory glory, and narrates the tale of scientific breakthroughs … Continue reading →

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Stanford human biology course with Robert Sapolsky

Posted on January 31, 2011 by

Now you don’t need to be a Stanford student to view Robert Sapolsky’s famous course in Human Behavioral Biology (iTunes). Sapolsky, renowned for his research fieldwork with wild baboons and his best-selling books, is also popular on the internet, where … Continue reading →

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Why the West Rules – For Now

Posted on January 24, 2011 by

Ian Morris is nothing if not ambitious. A professor of history and archaeology at Stanford University, Morris has written a new book, Why the West Rules – For Now in which he attempts an audacious unified field theory of history … Continue reading →

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Back-to-school specials

Posted on November 22, 2010 by

One of the best ways to find dynamic lecturers speaking on interesting subjects is to browse the back-to-school programs for visiting alumni on iTunes U. Stanford University’s Classes without Quizzes (iTunes) is a case in point. Here are a couple … Continue reading →

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