Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

Human Computer Interfaces
Game Theory
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Computer Science 101
Software as a Service
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Cryptography
Design and Analysis of Algorithms I
and
Lean Launchpad
Technology Entrepreneurship

I can’t recommend these classes enough. I’ve taken the iPhone Development, Intro to Artificial Intelligence, Intro to Databases, and Machine Learning classes.

It’s my thought that the future of education will not be 4 year degrees on site, but life long learning at home.

If you need to brush up on some math first try Khan Academy, Wolfram Math World.

Stanford is offering free online classes in Machine Learning and Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

I’ve taken their iPhone programming class and it was fantastic. I’m going to take the AI class to brush up on things and the Machine Learning to learn some new things.

Classes begin Oct 10 and run through mid Dec 2011.

I was working through my rss feed on robots the other day and ran across this short story. It’s worth a read, just some light reading for the holiday.

So, for months, I’ve been seeing this “stock robot” trading machine ad, all over the net. From time to time, it would pop up on my blog too; so I bought one.The “stock trading robot” was delivered in a metal box, about half the size of a coffin. I’m sure my neighbors thought “The Fly” was having dead monkey’s delivered to his house. Very nice. . . . [ read more The important matter of stock trading robots]

If you are in NYC you can visit the ‘Museum of Sex’ and see the: Sex Life of Robots (preview) (nsfw) movie. A slide show from the movie is at Wired if you can’t get to see the show or are at work now.

MIT Tech Videos is mostly just fun and fluff but you can search by genre and find some interesting and educational ones under ‘education’ and ‘engineering’.

RuBot II Rubik’s cube solving robot

Self Replicating Repairing Robots

Sony robots doing an ancient Japanese dance

A bicycle riding robot

A wall and tree climbing robot, really creepy, looks like a bug

Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart

And Wired added a slide show of 100+ years of Japanese Bots

for fun:

Can They Be Trusted? – 80 Years of Robots in Hollywood – TIME

. . .
Adapted from the Cold War-era stories by Isaac Asimov, I, Robot feeds from our worst fears and asks: what would happen if robots controlled every aspect of our lives, from commerce and public safety to handy housework? Yes, they’d work more efficiently than humans, but they would also lack our values, logic and reasoning.These fears are harbored by a troubled and bigoted cop, Del Spooner. Spooner hasn’t trusted robots since one plucked him out of dangerous waters but let a little girl drown. The robot had calculated that Spooner had a higher chance of survival. In Spooner’s view the honorable choice would’ve been to save the child. “A human being would’ve known that,” he says.
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