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Stanford profs from DB & Machine Learning class are founding a company Coursera

108 points| dhawalhs | 14 years ago |plus.google.com | reply

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[+] droithomme|14 years ago|reply
Daphne Koller was not the DB professor, she was scheduled to teach a class starting this month, but has not taught any online classes yet. The DB teacher was Jennifer Widom, who is not part of the initiative described in the article.
[+] wyuenho|14 years ago|reply
All I want to know is, will Andrew Ng still teach the ML class on Stanford or only on Coursera now? I haven't taken his new ML class yet but a large part of why I want to sign up for that class in the Spring quarter is because of him.
[+] MaxGabriel|14 years ago|reply
Are these companies (Coursera here, Udacity for Thrun) going to be non-profits like Khan Academy?
[+] unignorant|14 years ago|reply
No, both are for-profit. This caused a bit of a stir among their fellow academics.
[+] fooyc|14 years ago|reply
This is awesome.

I guess this is why the 2012 ML class is delayed; I'm wondering if it will still happen :(

[+] technotony|14 years ago|reply
Not just the ML course. I signed up for one on human computer interaction, high tech entrepreneurship and lean startup and they have all been delayed indefinitely. It's a pity as I did Sebastian Thun's AI course and it was great and I was looking forward to these others... so the consumer isn't always winning as these companies fight it out, I think they should just put the material out for free it would create many new startups!
[+] frrp|14 years ago|reply
Competition is always good for the customers, so I really like it. I also expect O'Reilly Media to push harder in this direction, it's only natural...
[+] kunj2aan|14 years ago|reply
It's surprising that they wouldn't collaborate with Sebastian Thrun (AI), who I think is also founding a company.
[+] codeonfire|14 years ago|reply
It's not surprising if you understand academic politics. If you go to many research presentations, you'll be amazed to see people openly deriding the presenter's work to their face. Collaboration is something valued by people who greatly depend on others. So it's normal for most people to think that collaboration is something that is desirable, and it is for the average person. If you are trying to be the world's leading expert in something that no one else understands, depending on others will be an avenue of attack for your detractors. It is far better for a very capable person to take on market forces rather than internal politics.
[+] binarysolo|14 years ago|reply
Hearsay: there was some competing visions on how they wanted to scale online education in the School of Computer Science as well as the School of Engineering.
[+] johnwatson11218|14 years ago|reply
Just curious ... what would people be willing to pay for the courses? Especially if it meant some kind of official recognition or certificate.
[+] nchuhoai|14 years ago|reply
I don't get why they would cooperate with the dude from the ML class
[+] w1kke|14 years ago|reply
Imho ML class was the best of the three. I am more interested in the application side of CS and Andrew Ng really nailed that aspect in my opinion.
[+] nphrk|14 years ago|reply
You have some complaints about the ML class?
[+] nchuhoai|14 years ago|reply
Sorry I meant to say wouldn't. I'm sure they could together create a bigger impact then seperate
[+] denzil_correa|14 years ago|reply
Delivering education is changing across the world. First, we hear about Sebastian Thrun. Now, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller!
[+] denzil_correa|14 years ago|reply
I don't see the funny side of downvoting comments here on HN. Pathetic!