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Sebastian Thrun taught a free online Artificial Intelligence course last semester for Stanford, and it looks like he is involved in some sort of educational start up now, with all sorts of free offerings in the works. There are a lot of free computer science classes on iTunes U and across the web, but the more offerings the better. The Stanford online classes were great partly because they used specifically designed for the web. They are even offering a theory of computation class, which is rare. The only other one I've seen is offered by Harvard on iTunes U, and it was great, but I could always use a refresher on FSM's and Turing machines.

A sneak peak at the new Windows 8 Metro UI.
Looks pretty cool to me, but I wonder how older apps will look? It also seems like this may be too geared towards phones, tablets, and pads.