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Weird that Sebastian Thrun would come up again - he's on the front page stepping down as Udacity CEO right now [1], too, and I'd never heard of the guy before.
by WaxProlix 11y ago
Weird that Sebastian Thrun would come up again - he's on the front page stepping down as Udacity CEO right now [1], too, and I'd never heard of the guy before.
1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11562468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11562468
- emcq 11y agoThat's because he has had tremendous impacts on computer science and robotics for many years now as a pioneering professor at CMU and Stanford. He was a leading force in the DARPA grand challenge which showcased self driving car technologies long before it was cool. He led the self driving car project at Google-X, developed street view, and cofounded Udacity. It's not weird; the guy is brilliant and has had many large impacts to the community as a whole.
- WaxProlix 11y agoIn that case it's weird that I wasn't familiar with the name.