This Week at Udacity, October 19 edition
Udacity Festival 2018 is here! Plus, an amazing Udacity Talks with Sebastian Thrun and Kai-Fu Lee, two incredible new Student Success stories, a timely election-centric application of blockchain, and more!
The big news for this week actually happens this weekend. It’s Udacity Festival 2018!
If you are a current student, or a member of our alumni community, then please consider this your invitation to Udacity Festival 2018! This 2-day virtual festival taking place Oct 20–21, 2018, will be a phenomenal opportunity to interact with the global Udacity community. You’ll hear inspiring success stories, get valuable insights, and have plenty of chances to network and make connections.
And speaking of Udacity events, did you SEE the Udacity Talks episode with Kai-Fu Lee and Sebastian Thrun??? Amazing! Independent of one another, they are wildly influential voices in the transformational field of AI. But to witness them together, in unscripted conversation, was a genuine revelation.
Self-driving cars and smart cities came up several times in the course of their conversation, but this certainly wasn’t the only arena where autonomous systems were provoking compelling debate. One very interesting example is this one:
Read through, and you’ll find Udacity’s own David Silver quoted in the post!
And speaking of cryptocurrency, let’s talk Blockchain for a moment! As we gear up for the upcoming elections, you might be interested to know more about a really fascinating experiment with blockchain-powered mobile voting that’s happening in West Virginia right now:
One of the greatest joys of being part of Udacity is discovering and sharing new stories about the amazing accomplishments of our students. Last Saturday, we had the honor of sharing a fantastic story about determination in the service of positive career change:
And just this morning, we shared a powerful story about a Udacity grad whose commitment to positive social change has been the north star on his unique career journey:
And now … drum roll …
The Tweet of the Week!
We’re going to share ourselves this week, because this tweet will send you right to a VERY valuable new career resource!
And THAT … is This Week at Udacity!
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This was post was written by Christopher Watkins, Senior Writer and Chief Words Officer, Udacity
