Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrunis an innovator, entrepreneur educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He was CEO and cofounder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, and a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. At Google, he founded Google X. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 May 1967
CountryGermany
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I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.'
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Any vision that we have for self-driving cars must address driving in traffic.
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I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.
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I am a big fan of putting the intelligence in the cars.
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I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.
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None of us think about a world where all the cars are automated all the time. It could take society 20 years to adopt the technology.
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The next big milestone we are heading for now is proving self-driving is possible in traffic. Our goal at Stanford is to be able, within the next two years, to drive from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles with 100 percent autonomy--without any human intervention whatsoever.
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As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
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I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.
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I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.
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The dream of cars driving themselves is becoming a reality. Before, the question was whether it was possible. Now we know it is.
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I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.
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Last year's teams failed almost exclusively because of software problems,
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The military are interested in more potent weapons, and by itself that's a bad answer.