Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom
In the fall of 2011 Peter Norvig taught a class with Sebastian Thrun on artificial intelligence at Stanford attended by 175 students in situ and over 100,000 via an interactive webcast. He shares what he learned about teaching to a global classroom. Peter Norvig is a leading American computer scientist, expert on artificial intelligence and the Director of Research at Google Inc.
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ABOUT Peter Norvig
“Peter Norvig is a computer scientist and expert in both artificial intelligence and online search. Currently the Director of Research at Google Inc., he was responsible for maintaining and improving the engine’s core web search algorithms from 2002 to 2005.
Prior to his work at Google, Norvig was NASA’s chief computer scientist. A fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the author of the book ‘Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach’, he (along with Sebastian Thrun) taught the Stanford University class ‘Introduction to Artificial Intelligence’ which was made available to anyone in the world.
More than 160,000 students from 209 countries enrolled. Peter Norvig is also known for penning the world’s longest palindromic sentence (a 15,139 Word Palindrome or Palindromic Sentence).”
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