Sunday, November 27, 2011

Stanford University Offers Online and Free Courses




Stanford University offered their most popular computer science courses to the public this fall, online for free. The courses were so popular that Stanford’s doing it again in January. Open to everyone, just enter your name and email address to sign up.
Each course comprises downloadable video lectures, handouts, assignments, exams, and transcripts.

This time they’re offering 7 computer science courses:

Machine Learning (Andrew Ng - January 2012)
Human-Computer Interaction(Scott Klemmer - January 2012)
Game Theory(Matthew Jackson and Yoav Shoham - January 2012)
Probabilistic Graphical ModelsDaphne Koller - January 2012
Cryptography(Dan Boneh - January 2012)
Design and Analysis of Algorithms I (Tim Roughgarden - January 2012)
Natural Language Processing(Chris Manning and Dan Jurafsky - January 23rd 2012)
Computer Science 101 (Nick Parlante – February 2012)
Software Engineering for Software as a Service (Armando Fox and David Patterson - February 2012)


Two entrepreneurship courses:
Technology Entrepreneurship (Chuck Eesley - January 2012)
The Lean Launchpad (Steve Blank - February 2012)


Medicine
Anatomy(Sakti Srivastava - January 2012)


Civil Engineering
Making Green Buildings(Martin Fischer - January 2012)


Electrical Engr.
Information Theory (Tsachy Weissman - March 2012)