Stanford Professors Daphne Koller & Andrew Ng Also Launching a Massive Online Learning Startup

斯坦福大學教授達芙妮科勒與安德魯·吳還推出了大規模的在線學習啟動

 

 

These are interesting times to be a Stanford professor. Or to stop being a Stanford professor, as the case may be...

Last week, news broke that Professor Sebastian Thrun would be stepping down from teaching at Stanford to launch an online learning company called Udacity. Udacity is an outgrowth of his incredibly popular Artificial Intelligence class offered through Stanford last fall.

Now it appears that two other Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng (Ng taught last term's massive Machine Learning class) have started their own company, Coursera, one that offers a very similar service as Thrun's.

According to the startup's jobs page, the two are "following up on the success of these courses to scale up online education efforts to provide a high quality education to the world. Out platform delivers complete courses where students are not only watching web-based lectures, but also actively participating, doing exercises, and deeply learning the material."

Much of the vision of Coursera echoes what Thrun said on stage at the DML conference when he unveiled his plans for Udacity: for too long, access to a world-class education has been available to only a select few. "We see a future where world-leading educators are at the center of the education conversation," says Coursera, "and their reach is limitless, bounded only by the curiosity of those who seek their knowledge; where universities such as Stanford, Harvard, and Yale serve millions instead of thousands. In this future, ours will be the platform where the online conversation between educators and students will take place, and where students go to for most of their academic needs."

But rather than leaving the university and the professoriate entirely, it appears as though Koller and Ng are working with universities to extend their reach online. Coursera will be the platform that runs many of the upcoming online classes from Stanford (including CS 101 andCryptography). It also appears as though the platform will be used by UC Berkeley for itsSoftware Engineerring for SaaS course.

That Ng and Koller are launching a company to help foster these massive online education efforts while remaining at Stanford certainly adds an interesting twist to Thrun's statement that "I can't teach at Stanford again." Thrun's company has taken investment from Charles Rivers Ventures (as well as using some $200,000 of his own money), while it's unclear what, if any, financial stake Stanford has in Coursera.

It's hard to say what happened behind the scenes at Stanford (I've requested comment from Koller about her plans for the startup as well as for her intentions to stay at Stanford, but haven't heard back). Felix Salmon, who broke Thrun's news last week, has a follow-up interview with Thrun today that sheds a bit more light on these back room machinations, with Salmon noting that Stanford was "none-too-enthusiastic" about the prospect of these massive online courses particularly when it came to the whole question of credentialing for successful completion.

And yet Stanford seems to be supportive of the Coursera efforts.

As such it will be very interesting to watch these two competing platforms developed to help administer massive online courses. Based on reviews from the students who took both Thrun's AI class and Ng's Machine Learning class last term, the latter seemed to win higher marks. But was it the platform? Or the professor? Or both?

And despite what appears to be an incredibly disruptive moment for higher ed, what role will Stanford (and other universities) play in unleashing and/or reigning in the power of the massive online course?

   

斯坦福大學教授達芙妮科勒與安德魯·吳還推出了大規模的在線學習啟動

 

這些都是有趣的時代成為斯坦福大學教授。或不再是斯坦福大學的教授,因為具體情況而定...

上週有消息傳出,塞巴斯蒂安·史朗教授將由任教於斯坦福大學推出的在線學習公司叫下台UdacityUdacity是他非常受歡迎的產物人工智能通過斯坦福大學去年秋季提供的類。

現在看來,兩位斯坦福大學教授達芙妮科勒和安德魯·吳(吳教最後一屆大規模機器學習類)已經開始了他們自己的公司,Coursera,一說提供了一個非常類似的服務為史朗的。

根據啟動時的工作頁面,兩人都是“這些課程以擴大網絡教育努力為客戶提供高品質的教育走向世界的成功跟進。輸出平台提供完整的課程,讓學生不僅看基於網絡講座同時,也積極參與,做練習,深入學習材料。“

大部分Coursera的視覺呼應了史朗上的DML階段會議時說,他公佈了他的計劃,Udacity:過久,獲得了世界一流的教育已經提供給只有一小部分。“我們看到的未來是世界領先的教育工作者在教育談話的中心,”Coursera說,“他們的範圍是無限的,只有那些誰尋求知識的好奇心界,其中大學如斯坦福大學,哈佛大學,和耶魯大學為全球數百萬,而不是數千人。在這個未來,我們將成為平台,讓教師和學生之間的網上對話將舉行,並讓學生去他們大部分的學術需求。“

但是,而不是讓大學和大學教授完全,看來好像科勒和吳正高校網上擴展其範圍。Coursera將運行許多即將到來的在線課程由斯坦福大學(包括平台的CS 101密碼)。這似乎也好像該平台將其用於加州大學伯克利分校的軟件Engineerring SaaS的過程。

吳和科勒正在發起一個公司,以幫助促進這些龐大的網絡教育的努力,同時保持在斯坦福肯定增加了一個有趣的轉折史朗的聲明說:“我不能教於斯坦福大學了。” 史朗的公司採取了投資查爾斯河風險投資公司(以及使用一些他自己的錢20萬美元),而目前還不清楚是什麼,如果有的話,金融股權斯坦福大學在Coursera。

這是很難說發生了什麼幕後斯坦福(我已經請求評論的科勒她計劃的啟動,以及她的意圖留在斯坦福大學,但還沒有聽說過回)。菲利克斯三文魚,誰打破了史朗的消息上週,有跟進採訪史朗今天揭示了一點光就這些里屋的陰謀,三文魚指出,斯坦福大學是“沒有太熱情的”關於這些龐大的前景在線課程尤其是當它來到資格認證的順利完成整個問題。

然而斯坦福似乎支持了Coursera的努力。

因此這將是非常有趣的手錶為了幫助管理海量的在線課程,這兩個相互競爭的平台。基於來自誰了兩個史朗的AI類和Ng的機器學習類的最後一屆學生,後者似乎贏得更高的痕跡。但它的平台?還是教授?或兩者兼而有之?

儘管這似乎是一個令人難以置信的顛覆性時刻高版,什麼樣的作用將斯坦福(和其他大學)的大量釋出及/或統治的大規模在線課程的能力發揮?

 

Andrew Ng

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Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng
Born 1976 (age 37–38)[1]
United Kingdom[1]
Residence United States
Fields Artificial intelligence
Institutions Stanford University
Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis Shaping and Policy Search in Reinforcement Learning (2003)
Doctoral advisor Michael I. Jordan
Known for MOOC
Website
Stanford University - Andrew Ng

Andrew Y. Ng (born 1976, Chinese吳恩達) is an associate professor in the Department ofComputer Science and the Department of Electrical Engineering by courtesy at Stanford University, and he works as the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. He is chairman of the board of Coursera, an online education platform that he co-founded withDaphne Koller.

He researches primarily in machine learning and deep learning. His early work includes the Stanford Autonomous Helicopter project, which developed one of the most capable autonomous helicopters in the world,[2][3] and the STAIR (STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot) project,[4] which resulted in ROS, a widely used open-source robotics software platform.

Ng is also the author or co-author of over 100 published papers in machine learning, robotics and related fields, and some of his work in computer vision has been featured in a series of press releases and reviews.[5] In 2008, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[6][7] In 2007, Ng was awarded a Sloan Fellowship. For his work in Artificial Intelligence, he is also a recipient of theComputers and Thought Award.

On May 16, 2014, Ng announced from his Coursera blog that he would be stepping away from his day-to-day responsibilities at Coursera, and join Baidu as Chief Scientist, working on Baidu Brain project.[8]

Machine learning research[edit]

In 2011, Ng founded the Google Brain project at Google, which developed very large scale artificial neural networks using Google's distributed computer infrastructure.[9] Among its notable results was a neural network trained using deep learning algorithms on 16,000 CPU cores, that learned to recognize higher-level concepts, such as cats, after watching only YouTube videos, and without ever having been told what a "cat" is.[10][11] The project's technology is currently also used in the Android Operating System's speech recognition system.[12]

Online education[edit]

External audio
 Interview with Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng, Degree of Freedom[13]

Ng started the Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) program, which in 2008 placed a number of Stanford courses online, for free. Ng taught one of these courses, Machine Learning, which consisted of video lectures by him, along with the student materials used in the Stanford CS229 class.

The "applied" version of the Stanford class (CS229a) was hosted on ml-class.org and started in October 2011, with over 100,000 students registered for its first iteration; the course featured quizzes and graded programming assignments and became one of the first successful MOOCs made by Stanford professors.[14] His work subsequently led to the founding of Coursera in 2012.

Personal life[edit]

Ng was born in the UK in 1976. His parents were both Singaporeans. He spent time in Hong Kong and Singapore[1] and later graduated from Raffles Institution inSingapore as the class of 1992 to receive his undergraduate degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in PittsburghPennsylvania as the class of 1997. Then, he attained his master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts as the class of 1998 and received his PhDfrom University of California, Berkeley in 2002. He started working at Stanford University during that year; he currently lives in Palo AltoCalifornia. He married Carol E. Reiley in 2014.

伍祥
維基百科,自由的百科全書
伍祥
伍祥
出生 1976年(37-38歲)[ 1 ]
英國[ 1 ]
公寓 美國
場 人工智能
機構 斯坦福大學
母校 卡內基·梅隆大學,麻省理工學院,加州大學伯克利分校

論文 整形與政策強化學習搜索 (2003年)
博士生導師 邁克爾·喬丹一。
聞名 MOOC
網站
斯坦福大學-安德魯·吳
閻伍(生於1976年,中國:吳恩達)是一個副教授在系計算機科學與系電氣工程通過禮貌,在斯坦福大學,他的作品為主任斯坦福大學人工智能實驗室。他是董事長Coursera,他共同創辦了在線教育平台達芙妮科勒。

他研究主要是在機器學習和深度學習。他的早期作品包括斯坦福無人直升機項目,該項目在世界上發展最有能力自主直升機之一,[ 2 ] [ 3 ]和樓梯(斯坦福大學人工智能機器人)項目,[ 4 ]這導致活性氧,廣泛使用開源機器人軟件平台。

伍也是作者或合著者,在機器學習,機器人技術和相關領域的超過100篇論文發表,和他的一些作品中的計算機視覺已經被刊登在一系列新聞發布會和評論。[ 5 ] 2008年,他入選麻省理工學院 技術評論 TR35的前35創新的世界35歲以下的之一。[ 6 ] [ 7 ] 2007年,吳被授予斯隆獎學金。他在人工智能的工作,他也是接受者計算機和思想獎。

在2014年5月16日,吳從他Coursera博客中宣布,他將會加強遠離他的一天到一天的Coursera的責任,並加入百度的首席科學家,從事百度腦計劃。

機器學習的研究[ 編輯]
2011年,吳創辦了谷歌大腦的項目在谷歌,該公司開發的超大規模的人工神經網絡使用谷歌的分佈式計算基礎設施。[ 9 ]在其顯著的成果是利用神經網絡訓練的深度學習算法,對16000個CPU內核,即學會認識更高層次的概念,如貓,看後才YouTube的視頻,而無需被告知什麼是“貓”是。[ 10 ] [ 11 ]該項目的技術目前也被用於Android操作系統 “演講識別系統。[ 12 ]

網絡教育[ 編輯]
外部音頻
專訪Coursera聯合創始人安德魯·吳,自由度[ 13 ]
伍開始了斯坦福大學工程無處不在(見)計劃,該計劃在2008年放置了一些斯坦福課程在線,是免費的。伍教授這些課程,學習機,其中包括了視頻講座由他與在斯坦福大學CS229類中使用的學生的材料之一。

在“應用”版的斯坦福類(CS229a)的託管於ML-class.org,並開始在2011年10月,有超過10萬名學生註冊了它的第一次迭代; 課程特色測驗和分級的編程作業,並成為了第一個成功的一個MOOCs由斯坦福大學的教授做。[ 14 ]他的工作隨後導致的成立Coursera在2012年。

個人生活[ 編輯]
伍出生於英國,1976年他的父母都是新加坡人。他花時間在香港和新加坡的[ 1 ],後來畢業於萊佛士書院在新加坡為類1992年從接受他的本科計算機科學學位,卡耐基梅隆大學在匹茲堡,賓夕法尼亞州作為類的1997年之後,他獲得了他的碩士學位,從美國麻省理工學院在劍橋,馬薩諸塞州作為類1998年,並獲得他的博士學位來自美國加州大學伯克利分校在2002年,他開始在工作的斯坦福大學在這一年; 他目前住在帕洛阿爾托,加利福尼亞州。他娶了卡羅爾E.賴利在2014年。

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