Hello Machine Learning learners,

Please know that due to unforeseen circumstances, courses 5 and 6 - Recommender Systems & Dimensionality Reduction and An Intelligent Application with Deep Learning - will not be launching as part of the Machine Learning Specialization. We understand this may come as very disappointing news and we’re deeply sorry for this inconvenience. If you have paid for these courses or have received financial aid from Coursera, you will remain eligible to earn your Specialization Certificate upon successfully completing courses 1-4 of the Specialization. If you paid for courses 5 & 6 via a pre-payment toward the Specialization, Coursera has provided you with free access to two other courses offered by the University of Washington: Computational Neuroscience and Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms . An email has been sent out with specific instructions on how to enroll in these courses. If you individually paid for either x or y course, you will receive a refund within the next two weeks.

If you have any questions or would like to request a refund, please feel free to contact Coursera’s 24/7 learner support team via the Request a Refund article in the Learner Help Center. The last day to request a refund will be April 30, 2017 . We value you as a Coursera learner and want to ensure that your experience with the Machine Learning Specialization remains a positive one.

Regards,

The Coursera Team