CS 153: Frontier Systems

Stanford University's CS 153: Frontier Systems course for Spring 2026 features a lineup of industry leaders including Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Satya Nadella, with a focus on building a one-person frontier lab. The course requires CS110/111 prerequisites and emphasizes creating value through a 10-week project.

Instructors - AMP PBC - AMP PBC Spring 2026 Lineup - Alex AtallahOpenRouter - Amanda AskellAnthropic - Amin VahdatGoogle - Amit JainLuma AI - Anastasios AngelopoulosArena - Andreas BlattmannBlack Forest Labs - Andrej KarpathyCo-founder, OpenAI - Ashok ElluswamyVP Autopilot, Tesla - Ben Horowitza16z - Brendan IribeSesame · ex-Oculus CEO - Dogus CubukPeriodic Labs - Emil MichaelUnited States - Garry Tan & Diana HuY Combinator - Jensen HuangNVIDIA - Joe SullivanEx-Uber/Facebook/Cloudflare - Liam FedusPeriodic Labs - Mati StaniszewskiElevenLabs - Nicolai TangenNorwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund - Nikhyl SinghalFounder, Skip Community - Prithvi RajasekaranAnthropic - Reiner PopeMatX - Rob RiachiGoogle DeepMind - Sam AltmanOpenAI - Satya NadellaMicrosoft - Scott NolanGeneral Matter - Sriram KrishnanUS Gov/Whitehouse - 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 - Readings Readings & Materials https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FzHEHXFNx aG7ooLFLJcAatoxLsvrKYoBP3H1C-Q6-w/edit Course Staff - Instructors - Anjney Midha, Michael Abbott abbottm@stanford.edu mailto:abbottm@stanford.edu - TAs - Adrian A, Ramya I, Anthony M - Contact cs153-spr2526-staff@lists.stanford.edu cs153-spr2526-staff@lists.stanford.edu Archive Winter 2025 /winter2025/ · Spring 2024 /winter2025/syllabus.html