{"id":8909,"date":"2014-05-19T21:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T04:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=8909"},"modified":"2014-05-19T21:26:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T04:26:02","slug":"eas-viii-sebastian-thrun-updates-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/eas-viii-sebastian-thrun-updates-us\/","title":{"rendered":"EAS VIII: Sebastian Thrun Updates Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sebastian Thrun is best known for his leadership in the \u201cGoogle Cars\u201d program, fielding self-driving Priuses in the San Francisco Bay area and having the cars demonstrate a spotless accident record (except for those caused by other drivers running into them.) \u00a0He shared the current status of that project with attendees at the eighth annual CAFE Foundation Electric Aircraft Symposium in late April.<\/p>\n

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Sebastian Thrun sharing his accomplishments at EAS VIII<\/p><\/div>\n

He\u2019s also been responsible for Google Glass<\/a>, those controversial mega-spectacles that have furnished stand-up comics with new realms of material, although the last laugh may be on scoffers as these ingenious devices point the way toward wearable computers.\u00a0 Thrun\u2019s also created a new type of open university \u2013 one that takes advantage of the online experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cUdacity<\/a> was born out of a Stanford University experiment in which Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered their ‘Introduction to Artificial Intelligence’ course online to anyone, for free. Over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled and not much later, Udacity was born. Now we’re a growing team of educators and engineers on a mission to change the future of education by bridging the gap between real-world skills, relevant education, and employment.\u201d<\/p>\n