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At 'AI Coachella,' Stanford Students Line Up to Learn From Silicon Valley Royalty
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As thousands of influencers descended on southern California earlier this month for the annual Coachella Music Festival, a Silicon Valley program dubbed “AI Coachella” was taking shape a few hundred miles north in Palo Alto.
Key facts
- He ordered 500 T-shirts that read "I took CS 153 and all I got was AI coachella," which he plans to hand out to students on Thursday
- Only 3 people in their Stanford functional analysis class today,” wrote Luke Heeney, a research fellow in economics at Stanford University, in another post
- The course is co-taught by Anjney Midha, a former Andreessen Horowitz general partner, and Michael Abbott, Apple’s former VP of engineering for cloud services
- CS 153 blends access to Silicon Valley’s top brass and education in an extreme way—which is precisely why some people have taken issue with it
Summary
The course is co-taught by Anjney Midha, a former Andreessen Horowitz general partner, and Michael Abbott, Apple’s former VP of engineering for cloud services. On Tuesday, Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Ben Horowitz came to speak. Part of Stanford’s allure has long been access to Silicon Valley elites. After a screenshot of CS 153’s guest lecture lineup went viral on social media this year, some critics argued that students should be spending their time in “real” classes, not attending a live podcast recording hosted by VCs.