Hi everyone,

Here's an amazing web site that I recently learned about. ArsDigita
University was conceived as an intense 1-year program designed to
teach a full undergraduate curriculum in computer science to students
who already had a college degree in some other area. Students took
all of the same classes in sequence: about 12 classes each lasting
about a month, with total immersion in the particular subject matter
during that period.

The funding was cancelled after the first year, and ArsDigita
University no longer exists in its original form. But nearly all of
the class materials and videos of the lectures were saved and made
available on their website: http://aduni.org/ . And because of the
nature of the curriculum, a large portion of the material is likely to
be of interest to members of this group.

The university was physically located near Boston and used faculty
from area schools including MIT to teach the classes. Highlights
include an overview of AI by Patrick Winston, and a colloquium talk
given by Michael Sipser.

One caution if you check out the site: the video files are enormous
(300-400 Meg for an hour lecture). They offer to provide all course
materials on disk (literally, on a 80-Gig hard drive) for $200, for
people seriously interested in following the curriculum.

-Kurt