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Udacity: Why a Functional Verification Course? (Cross Post from Cadence)
This is cross post from Cadence about their Functional Verification Course. (Original post here.) On-line education pioneer Udacity is partnering with Cadence to offer an upcoming free class in functional hardware verification – but Udacity’s overall mission is quite a bit broader than that. Says David Evans, vice president of education at Udacity: “Our mission is to make high-quality higher education available to everyone in the world, and to keep it free.” It’s an ambitious goal for the young company, which started last year when two artificial intelligence experts – Prof. Sebastian Thune, now Udacity CEO, and Peter Norvig, now Google’s director of research – decided to go on-line with a class they were teaching at Stanford University. It went viral, was picked up by the New York Times, and within a few weeks 160,000 students in over 190 countries had signed up for Udacity’s first class, “Introduction to Artificial…