be offering online for free,

the Machine Learning class that I teach.

Machine learning has a typical

enrollment Of 350 students in Stanford,

and this is one of the most popular

courses offered by the Computer Science Department.

Over 200,000 people have watched my Machine Learning lectures on YouTube.

Based on this popularity, this year we are doing something completely new.

We are not just showing you videos,

we are inviting you to sign

up for actively participating and take the Stanford course.

What is machine learning?

You've probably used it, dozens of times a day, without even knowing it.

Each time you do a web

search on Google or Bing,

that works so well because their

machine learning software has figured out how to rank what pages.

When Facebook or Apple's

filter applications and recognizes your friends in your pictures.

That's also machine learning.

Each time you read your email and a

the spam filter saves you

from having to wade through tons of spam.

Again that's because your computer

has neurons to distinguish spam

from non-spam email.

So, that's machine learning.

It's the science of getting computers

to learn without being explicitly programmed.

One of the research projects that I'm

working on is getting robots to tidy up the house.

How do you go about doing that?

Well what you can do is have

the robot watch you demonstrate

the task and learn from that.

The robot can then watch what

objects you pick up and where

to put them and try to

do the same thing even when you aren't there.

For me, one of the

reasons I am excited about

this is the AI, or artificial intelligence problem.

Building truly-intelligent machines which

can do just about anything that you or I can do.

Many scientists think that the

best way to make progress on this

is through learning algorithms called neuro

networks which mimic how

the human brain works and I'll teach you about that too.

In this class you learn about machine learning and you get to implement them yourself.

This class will have homeworks

and programming assignments and if

you successfully complete this class,

you also get from me

a signed statement of accomplishments

stating how you did in the class and which you can put on your resume.

I hope you sign up on our website and join us this fall.