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
believe change child college degrees education fits life rest slice spent
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.
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Everyone has to place a bet down on speed.
angeles drive everybody fast francisco los might san
It won't be a very fast drive going from San Francisco to Los Angeles ? it might just drive 55 mph, it won't go 90 like everybody else does in California.
exactly knew
It went exactly as I had predicted. I knew exactly how it would react.
alter highways might save
It might fundamentally alter the way we use our highways and save trillions of dollars.
cars drive
It's a no-brainer that 50 to 60 years from now, cars will drive themselves,
point
It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.
autonomous potential vehicles
The potential here is enormous. Autonomous vehicles will be as important as the Internet.
event good partner quite rewarding vehicle
We had a good day, ... It has been quite rewarding to partner with Volkswagen on an event that contributes to such significant advancements in vehicle technology.
almost artificial attempt humanities intelligence nobody
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
lessons piano putting rather telling trying
In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.
ability car distance front good lane stay
If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me.
almost behind education everybody except highly leaves motivated online viable
Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.
few key work
Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.