Tuesday, August 09, 2011

MOOC in AI


An amazing new experiment will be launched in October when Stanford University professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig will start teaching a Massively Open Online Course in Artificial Intelligence. It's open to anyone who wishes to take the course online.

Here's a story at IEEE Spectrum.

The sign-up page is here.

10 Comments:

  1. cipher said...

    Giving a Thumbs Down to the new look. The older one was easier to read.

  2. Abi said...

    @cipher: I chose to shift to one of Blogger.com's prefab templates because I was unable to use any of the new features with my old, customized template.

    If you can point to specific issues, I'll try to tinker with CSS to address those.

  3. Ankur Kulkarni said...

    Here's one: Increase the font globally by a notch and put titles in bold?

  4. Abi said...

    @Ankur: Thanks for that suggestion.

    I have made the font-size bigger [20px for text, and (30px + bold) for the post title (from their previous values of 12px and 22px)], and I have added a little bit more space between lines (1.6 against 1.4 earlier) for readability.

    Let me know if there's more.

  5. Ankur Kulkarni said...

    Also, the kind of blue you have for unvisited links is a little jarring. You could push it more towards the navy blue on the background of "nanopolitan"

  6. Abi said...

    Ah, that was a good catch. I think it now looks better, with a darker shade of blue for both links and visited links.

    Thanks, @Ankur!

  7. Ankur Kulkarni said...

    Sorry for nitpicking, but I think now with change in colour et al the font looks too big :) May be 16px and 24px would be decent.

  8. Ankur Kulkarni said...

    Like!

  9. Abi said...

    @Ankur: Thanks for sticking with this one with all the suggestions. I too like the present look better than the one I started with on this new template.

  10. Ankur Kulkarni said...

    Glad to help you come up with this jan-nanopolitan-layout :)