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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| Sebastian Thrun canonical | 15 |
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| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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entrepreneur ⓘ person ⓘ roboticist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in computer science ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Inaugural AAAI Ed Feigenbaum Prize
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Max-Planck Research Award ⓘ National Academy of Engineering ⓘ
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National Academy of Engineering membership
Turing Award finalist (not recipient) ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Germany
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United States of America ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Dieter Fox
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Wolfram Burgard ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1967-05-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Bonn
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University of Hildesheim ⓘ |
| employer |
Google
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Stanford University ⓘ Udacity ⓘ |
| familyName | Thrun ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artificial intelligence
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autonomous vehicles ⓘ machine learning ⓘ online education ⓘ robotics ⓘ |
| givenName | Sebastian ⓘ |
| knownFor |
autonomous vehicle research
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founding Google X ⓘ founding Udacity ⓘ massive open online courses ⓘ probabilistic robotics ⓘ self-driving cars ⓘ |
| led |
Stanford Racing Team
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Stanley self-driving car team at Stanford
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| memberOf |
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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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
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Udacity online courses ⓘ book "Probabilistic Robotics" ⓘ |
| participatedIn | DARPA Grand Challenge ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Solingen ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Udacity
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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
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California
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Probabilistic Robotics