Sebastian Thrun

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Sebastian Thrun is a German-American computer scientist, roboticist, and entrepreneur best known for pioneering work in self-driving cars, founding Google X and Udacity, and advancing artificial intelligence and online education.

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instanceOf computer scientist
entrepreneur
person
roboticist
academicDegree PhD in computer science
awardReceived Inaugural AAAI Ed Feigenbaum Prize
Max-Planck Research Award
National Academy of Engineering
surface form: National Academy of Engineering membership

Turing Award finalist (not recipient)
citizenship Germany
United States of America
coAuthor Dieter Fox
Wolfram Burgard
countryOfBirth Germany
dateOfBirth 1967-05-14
educatedAt University of Bonn
University of Hildesheim
employer Google
Stanford University
Udacity
familyName Thrun
fieldOfWork artificial intelligence
autonomous vehicles
machine learning
online education
robotics
givenName Sebastian
knownFor autonomous vehicle research
founding Google X
founding Udacity
massive open online courses
probabilistic robotics
self-driving cars
led Stanford Racing Team
surface form: Stanley self-driving car team at Stanford
memberOf German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
surface form: Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

National Academy of Engineering
name Sebastian Thrun self-link
nationality German-American
notableAchievement led Stanford team that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
notableWork Google self-driving car project
Udacity online courses
book "Probabilistic Robotics"
participatedIn DARPA Grand Challenge
placeOfBirth Solingen
positionHeld CEO of Udacity
co-founder of Udacity
founder of Google X
professor of computer science at Stanford University
research professor at Stanford University
vice president at Google
residence California, United States
surface form: California

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Stanford Racing Team notableMember Sebastian Thrun
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Udacity foundedBy Sebastian Thrun
Google X associatedWith Sebastian Thrun
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book "Probabilistic Robotics" author Sebastian Thrun
subject surface form: Probabilistic Robotics
Dieter Fox coAuthorWith Sebastian Thrun
Wolfram Burgard coAuthorWith Sebastian Thrun
David Stavens doctoralAdvisor Sebastian Thrun
David Stavens studiedUnder Sebastian Thrun
David Stavens hasAcademicAdvisor Sebastian Thrun