Thrun was born in 1967 in Solingen, Germany (former West Germany), the son of Winfried and Kristin (Grüner) Thrun. The Guardian recognized him as one of 20 "fighters for internet freedom". In recognition of his contributions, and at the age of 39, he was elected into the National Academy of Engineering and also into the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2007. Thrun is also known for his work on probabilistic algorithms for robotics with applications including robotic mapping. Thrun led the development of the Google self-driving car. His team also developed a vehicle called Junior, which placed second at the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2007. Thrun led development of the robotic vehicle Stanley which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and which has since been placed on exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. He is also an adjunct professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech. At Google, he founded Google X and Google's self-driving car team. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and before that at Carnegie Mellon University. He is CEO of Kitty Hawk Corporation, and chairman and co-founder of Udacity. Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist. National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2003)Įxplanation-Based Neural Network Learning: A Lifelong Learning Approach (1995)
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