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"Udacity is a private educational organization founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky.[2] According to Thrun, the origin of the name Udacity comes from the company's desire to be "audacious for you, the student".[3]
Udacity is the outgrowth of free computer science classes offered in 2011 through Stanford University.[4] As of 4 February 2013, Udacity has 20 active courses.[5] Thrun has stated he hopes half a million students will enroll, after an enrollment of 160,000 students in the predecessor course at Stanford, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence,[6] and 90,000 students had enrolled in the initial two classes as of March 2012.[7][8] Udacity was announced at the 2012 Digital Life Design conference.[9] Udacity is funded by venture capital firm, Charles River Ventures, and $300,000 of Thrun's personal money.[2] In October 2012 the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz led the investment of another $15 million in Udacity.[10]
Thrun's work on Udacity was noted by The Guardian in a list of people championing open internet.."
"Sebastian Burkhard Thrun (born May 14, 1967, Solingen, Germany) is an educator, programmer, robotics developer and computer scientist from Germany. He is a Google VP and Fellow, and a part-time Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He became a former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) when he started to devote more time in offering free STEM fields classes through Udacity, an institution he cofounded with David Stavens and Mike Sokolsky..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun
Udacity CS215: Pathway That Can Use Two Nodes Udacity Youtube Channel
http://www.ted.com 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.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate
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