Anant Agarwal
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Anant Agarwal
Anant Agarwal is a computer architecture researcher. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache coherent multiprocessor, and also has served as director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is the founder and CTO of Tilera, a fabless semiconductor company focusing on scalable multicore embedded processor design. He also serves as the CEO of edX, a joint partnership...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionScientist
CountryIndia
At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.
There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.
A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.
Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats,