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.
bet
Everyone has to place a bet down on speed.
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.
angeles downtown drive francisco goal heading human los next percent possible proving san stanford within
The next big milestone we are heading for now is proving self-driving is possible in traffic. Our goal at Stanford is to be able, within the next two years, to drive from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles with 100 percent autonomy--without any human intervention whatsoever.
becoming cars dream driving question themselves whether
The dream of cars driving themselves is becoming a reality. Before, the question was whether it was possible. Now we know it is.
admiring minutes spend top
I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.
consumers matter time until
It is only a matter of time until consumers have self-driving cars.
point turning
That was a turning point in the race.
believe cars honestly impact invention mankind related turn
I honestly believe that the impact of this and other things related to self-driving cars could turn out to be more fundamental to mankind than the invention of the internet,
adapt again becoming improve item larger less problem software test trend
In the past, someone would look at a problem, write some code, test it, improve it by hand, test it again and so on. The problem is, software is becoming larger and larger and less and less manageable. So there's a trend to make software that can adapt itself. This is a really big item for the future.
easily lucky red truth
The truth is, we were lucky to win, and Red could have easily won.
moon should-have way
Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.