Sebastian Thrun

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Sebastian Thrun
Artificial Intelligence[1]
Robotics[2]
InstitutionsGoogle X Lab (founder)
Stanford University
Carnegie Mellon University
Udacity (co-founder)
ThesisExplanation-Based Neural Network Learning: A Lifelong Learning Approach (1995)
Doctoral advisorArmin B. Cremers
Tom Mitchell[3]
Doctoral studentsFrank Dellaert[3]
John Langford[3]
Joëlle Pineau
David Stavens[3]
Websiterobots.stanford.edu
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Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, educator, and

Google X and Google's self-driving car team. He is also an adjunct professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech.[4]

Thrun led development of the robotic vehicle

Google self-driving car.[7]

Thrun is also well known for his work on probabilistic algorithms for robotics with applications including robot localization

Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2007. The Guardian recognized him as one of 20 "fighters for internet freedom".[10]

Early life and education

Thrun was born in 1967 in Solingen, Germany (former

Vordiplom (intermediate examination) in computer science, economics, and medicine at the University of Hildesheim in 1988. At the University of Bonn, he completed a Diplom (first degree) in 1993 and a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in 1995 in computer science and statistics.[3]Later in his career, he was awarded many honorary Ph.D. degrees from European universities, including his first alma mater.[11]

Career and research

In 1995 he joined the Computer Science Department at

Finmeccanica
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics.

Thrun left CMU in July 2003 to become an associate professor at Stanford University and was appointed as the director of

Google driverless car system, after winning DARPA Grand Challenge and finishing in second place in DARPA Urban Challenge as a professor.[13] Thrun was interviewed in the 2018 documentary on artificial intelligence Do You Trust This Computer?.[citation needed
]

Robotics

Thrun developed a number of autonomous robotic systems that earned him international recognition. In 1994, he started the University of Bonn's Rhino project together with his doctoral thesis advisor

William L. Whittaker, led the software development for this robot. In 2007, Thrun's robot "Junior" won second place in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.[14] Thrun joined Google as part of a sabbatical, together with several Stanford students. At Google, he co-developed Google Street View
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Thrun's best known contributions to robotics are on the theoretical end. He contributed to the area of probabilistic robotics, a field that marries statistics and robotics. He and his research group made substantial contributions in areas of mobile robot localization, such as Monte Carlo Localization,[8] simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and control. Probabilistic techniques have since become mainstream in robotics, and are used in numerous commercial applications. In the fall of 2005, Thrun published a textbook entitled Probabilistic Robotics together with his long-term co-workers Dieter Fox and Wolfram Burgard.[15] Since 2007, a Japanese translation of Probabilistic Robotics has been available on the Japanese market.

Thrun is one of the principal investors of the Stanford spin-off VectorMagic.[16]

Awards

References

  1. S2CID 14552983
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  2. S2CID 686980
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  3. ^ a b c d e Sebastian Thrun at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata Retrieved December 12, 2015.
  4. ^ "Sebastian Thrun | Georgia Tech - College of Computing". Georgia Tech. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  5. ISBN 978-3-540-73428-4
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  6. ISBN 978-3-642-03990-4
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  7. ^ Markoff, John (October 9, 2010). "Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic". The New York Times. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  8. ^ a b c "ICRA Brochure 2020" (PDF).
  9. ISBN 1-55860-811-7
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  10. ^ Ball, James (April 20, 2012). "The Guardian's Open 20: fighters for internet freedom". The Guardian. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  11. ^ "Thrun's CV" (PDF).
  12. ^ Salmon, Felix (January 23, 2012). "Udacity and the Future of Online Universities". Reuters. Archived from the original on January 24, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  13. ^ Thrun, Sebastian "What we're driving at", The Official Google Blog, October 9, 2010. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  14. ^ "Junior: The Stanford Entry in the Urban Challenge" (PDF). Stanford University. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  15. ISBN 0-262-20162-3
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  16. ^ "About". Vector Magic. Archived from the original on November 17, 2012. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
  17. ^ a b c "Marquis biographies online: Profile detail, Sebastian Burkhard Thrun". Marquis Who's Who. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
  18. ^ "MMOST CREATIVE PEOPLE 2011 Profile detail, Sebastian Thrun". Fast Company. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  19. ^ "4 - Sebastian Thrun". The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers. The Foreign Policy Group, LLC. Archived from the original on December 3, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  20. ^ "Max Planck Research Award 2011". Mpg.de. March 16, 2011. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  21. ^ "Sebastian Thrun". AAAI Ed Feigenbaum Prize. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  22. ^ "Sebastian Thrun to Deliver Harvey Mudd Commencement Address". Harvey Mudd College. December 8, 2018. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  23. ^ Tom Vanderbilt (December 2012). "How Artificial Intelligence Can Change Higher Education". Smithsonian.
  24. ^ "Great Immigrants: Sebastian Thrun".
  25. ^ "Fellows | European Association for Artificial Intelligence". www.eurai.org. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  26. ^ "AAAI Classic Paper Award". AAAI. Retrieved June 26, 2023.

External links

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