CS 153|Frontier Systems

Stanford University · Spring 2026

From energy, silicon and models to applications, security and deployment policy, the infrastructure stack is undergoing a generational rewrite. Each week, this course puts you in the room with the global leaders solving the biggest bottlenecks on frontier technology progress.

Instructors

Spring 2026 Lineup

  • Amin Vahdat
    Google
  • Amanda Askell
    Anthropic
  • Andreas Blattman
    Black Forest Labs
  • Andrej Karpathy
    Co-founder, OpenAI
  • Arthur Mensch
    Mistral
  • Ashok Elluswamy
    VP Autopilot, Tesla
  • Ben Horowitz
    a16z
  • Brendan Iribe
    Sesame · ex-Oculus CEO
  • Dave Baszucki
    Roblox
  • David Holz
    Midjourney
  • Dogus Cubuk
    Periodic Labs
  • Garry Tan & Diana Hu
    Y Combinator
  • Jensen Huang
    NVIDIA
  • Liam Fedus
    Periodic Labs
  • Lisa Su
    AMD
  • Mati Staniszewski
    ElevenLabs
  • Matthew Prince
    Cloudflare
  • Michael Intrator
    CoreWeave
  • Nicolai Tangen
    Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund
  • Nikhyl Singhal
    Founder, Skip Community
  • Sam Altman
    OpenAI
  • Satya Nadella
    Microsoft
  • Sriram Krishnan
    US Gov/Whitehouse
  • Amit Jain
    Luma AI
  • Scott Nolan
    General Matter
  • Joe Sullivan
    Ex-Uber/Facebook/Cloudflare
  • Rob Riachi
    Google DeepMind
  • Reiner Pope
    MatX
  • Speakers to be added subject to scheduling. Specific dates are not shared until the day of class.

Course Project

The One-Person Frontier Lab

One person with the right tools can now produce what once required an organization. 10 weeks. One goal: create value for the world. See how far you can scale yourself.

Details

When
Tue / Thu 12:00–1:20 PM
Where
Hewlett Teaching Center 200
Dates
Mar 30 – Jun 3, 2026 (10 weeks)
Units
3 units
Prereqs
CS110/111 (req) · CS155 (rec)
Grading
65% Attendance · 35% Project

Course Staff

Instructors
Anjney Midha, Michael Abbott (abbottm@stanford.edu)
TAs
Adrian A, Ramya I, Anthony M
Contact
cs153-spr2526-staff@lists.stanford.edu

Archive

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