Author Topic: Free Online Stanford Classes (Read 2374 times)

Sared · « **on:** March 06, 2012, 08:02:03 pm »

Late last year, Stanford University announced that they would be offering a smattering of their courses online for free. Since then, they've run into numerous technical and legal problems getting the courses planned out and running. They've now sent out e-mails with start dates for the middle of this month, as well as some URL's for the class's instructors.

Of the courses offered, I've signed up for Game Theory (the mathmatical side of things), and Cryptography (security and communication).

Sign-ups are this week and next. Cryptography begins on March 12th, and emails for GT will be sent out this weekend with a planned start date of March 19th.

http://game-theory-class.org/

http://crypto-class.org/

Let me add the emphasis that this is free, high-quality educational material being put forth by Stanford University. Should anyone be interested in going through this course material with me, feel free to get a hold of me!

Sared · « **Reply #1 on:** March 06, 2012, 08:53:54 pm »

I should also add that the third class I've opted in for, Human-Computer Interaction, has just now sent me an e-mail update saying that their stuff is in the works, and should be up and running in the next week or two.

ZephixLeer (Zephic) · « **Reply #2 on:** March 06, 2012, 09:32:44 pm »

I'd be interested in game theory. I'll investigate more when I get home.

Da6onet · « **Reply #3 on:** March 07, 2012, 07:53:37 am »

The closet applied math major in me wants to sign up for the game theory course, but I just don't have time for it. Let me know how it goes though.

Lithium · « **Reply #4 on:** March 07, 2012, 03:16:37 pm »

I hope you are good with number theory. I almost failed a pure mathematics cryptography course in college. The professor had a PhD from Cambridge, it made it just a tad bit more difficult.