Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at thrun.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Thrun.
Examples
-
Stanley – Sebastian Thrun is very clear on the future.
-
It's taught by Sebastian Thrun, who in addition to being a professor at Stanford and an expert in robotics is also a vice president at Google, and Peter Norvig, Google's director of research.
-
Thrun, seeking to reassure anyone worried about the risk posed by an automated car in the California experiment, said: Our cars are never unmanned.
Google roadtests driverless cars Ewen MacAskill in Washington 2010
-
Sebastian Thrun, a Google software engineer, said in a blog entry posted on Saturday that the benefits of driverless cars could be a reduction in accidents, potentially cutting the 1.2 million lives lost each year by half, and an increase in car-sharing, reducing energy consumption.
Google roadtests driverless cars Ewen MacAskill in Washington 2010
-
Thrun had initially worked on Street View technology, but in early 2009, Page commissioned him to develop self-driving Google cars that would ride on actual roads and set the stage for the technology to reach the mainstream.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
-
The project has been so successful that Professor Thrun has set up a spin-off company which plans to enrol 500,000 students on its first two courses: "Building a search engine" and "Programming a robotic car".
-
The goal is to "help prevent traffic accidents, free up people's time and reduce carbon emissions" through ride sharing and "the new 'highway trains of tomorrow,'" project leader Sebastian Thrun wrote Saturday on Google's corporate blog.
Google's Self-Driving Car Demonstrated On Closed Course (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
-
Thrun gathered an all-star team of roboticists and A.I. specialists and, in effect, created a follow-up to the 2005 contest where Stanley had prevailed.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
-
Now you could argue that Thrun and Stanford are just treading a path that was already laid down by MIT and our own Open University – free content and sophisticated online pedagogy – and that's true.
-
He backed down only when the head of the Stanford AI lab, Sebastian Thrun, confirmed that the plan was madness.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.