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Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist. He is CEO of Kitty Hawk Corporation, and chairman and co-founder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and before that at Carnegie Mellon University.
Sebastian Thrun's Homepage. I am a research professor at Stanford, a Google Fellow, and a co-founder of Udacity . At Google, founded Google X, which is home to projects like the Google self-driving car and the recently announced Google Glass. We are trying to radically innovate, innovate, innovate.
I lead a team of expert computer scientists with the singular aim of significantly helping society through artificial intelligence technologies, and are constantly on the lookout for high-impact projects. We have worked on robotics, self-driving cars, automated homes, healthcare, drones, and a number of other applications.
Professor Dr.-mult. Sebastian Thrun pursues research on robotics, artificial intelligence, education, human computer interaction, and medical devices. He founded Google's self driving car team, after winning the DARPA Grand Challenge. Together with Peter Norvig, Thrun developed the first global MOOC with 160,000 students enrolled.
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - Cited by 150,004 - Machine Learning - Artificial Intelligence - Robotics
I am the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, home to more than 120 AI researchers at Stanford University. Check out my new books: Probabilistic Robotics and Principles of Robot Motion : Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations. Office hours will resume in January.
Why you should listen. Sebastian Thrun is an educator, entrepreneur and troublemaker. After a long life as a professor at Stanford University, Thrun resigned from tenure to join Google. At Google, he founded Google X, home to self-driving cars and many other moonshot technologies.
