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The 100,000-student classroom

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Peter Norvig |

TED2012

• February 2012

In the fall of 2011 Peter Norvig taught a class with Sebastian Thrun on artificial intelligence at Stanford attended by 175 students in situ -- and over 100,000 via an interactive webcast. He shares what he learned about teaching to a global classroom.

In the fall of 2011 Peter Norvig taught a class with Sebastian Thrun on artificial intelligence at Stanford attended by 175 students in situ -- and over 100,000 via an interactive webcast. He shares what he learned about teaching to a global classroom.

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Peter Norvig

Computer scientist

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Peter Norvig is a leading American computer scientist, expert on artificial intelligence and the Director of Research at Google Inc.

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