Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Standford Online Engineering course: More classes

Surely, we are seeing a new trend that will define education in the nearest future and gladly I am a participant.

The Standford Engineering Everywhere (see) just added me courses to the list of courses announced. They include

January 2012


* this is the first time, I am noticing a Professor from another university other than Stanford participating in this programme - Professor Dawn Song. Things are changing.

Those interested in medicine, Electrical and civil engineering can now join us in this education offering.
Once again THANK YOU STANDFORD - you are the best.

We may not have the privilege of having a Standford degree but now we can have the Standford knowledge.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Stanford Free Engineering Courses for 2012

Below is a listing of all the Standford free Engineering courses online. They are grouped into category of commencement period and are arranged alphabetically.

January 2012
  1. Cryptography with Dan Boneh
  2. Design and Analysis of Algorithms I with Tim Roughgarden*
  3. Game Theory with Matthew Jackson and Yoav Shoham
  4. Human-Computer Interaction with Scott Klemmer
  5. Machine Learning with Andrew Ng **
  6. Natural Language Processing with Chris Manning and Dan Jurafsky
  7. Probabilistic Graphical Models with Daphne Koller
  8. Technology Entrepreneurship with Chuck Eesley

February 2012
  1. Computer Science 101 with Nick Parlante
  2. Software Engineering for Software as a Service with Armando Fox and David Patterson
  3. The Lean Launchpad with Steve Blank

* - the name of the course - "Design and Analysis of Algorithms I" and I wonder if somehow there is a "Design and Analysis of Algorithms II" coming up later.
** - Machine learning with Andrew Ng is going to be a similar course with the one previously taken on the site www.ml-class.org

This is a whole lot of stuff coming up for 2012.
The intention is clear and awesome - you get to learn 9 strong engineering courses and 2 entrepreneurship courses to help you get to the market.

First quarter of 2012 is really gonna be fun.
We may not have the privilege of having a Standford degree but now we can have the Standford knowledge.

Stanford Online Engineering Courses: Machine Learning

I have really kept things musing within me about the recent free online course offered by Stanford University's School of Engineering online through the Standford Engineering Everywhere programme. Courses currently on-going include
  1. Machine Learning with Professor Andrew Ng
  2. Introduction to databases with Professor Jennifer Widom
  3. Introduction to Artificial intelligence with Prof. Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig
I was initially tempted to take all the course (with less participation in the DB course) but going live on the course, I knew that sometimes you need both hands to squeeze all the juices out of the orange. So, I stayed on Machine Learning and it has been very fantastic.

Not only has the course opened up areas in computing that were faint and becoming increasing obscured, it has completely laid open my cognition and sense of recognition. I was already getting my hands dirty with programming in R but Professor Ng pointed strongly encourage octave and I just got better with the two.

It is worth noting the wonderful lecturing skills of Professor Ng and whether or not he reads this, I would like to say THANK YOU to him and to Standford School of Engineering.

We may not have the privilege of having a Standford degree but now we can have the Standford knowledge.