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
team reality self
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.
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The truth is, we were lucky to win, and Red could have easily won.
becoming cars dream driving question themselves whether
The dream of cars driving themselves is becoming a reality. Before, the question was whether it was possible. Now we know it is.
bet
Everyone has to place a bet down on speed.
strong disrespect authority
I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.
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The problem with cars now is that they spend the vast majority of their time parked in the wrong location so they cannot be used by other drivers,
car ability no-brainer
Its a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.
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Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend.
believe education eventually hard online takes time understand work
I really believe that we have to work hard to make online education better and better, and eventually it's going to be really great. But like most of these things, it takes time to improve, to understand and to make things really good.
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I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.
best industry knows people question single students
If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice?
If it was only for the military, I wouldn't be here today.