Sebastian+Thrun

an German computer scientist, robotics developer, research professor at Stanford University, and CEO of [|Udacity]. Formerly he worked at Google Inc., where he co-developed [|Google Street View] and founded [|Google X], where he worked on the development of [|Google driverless car]. Sebastian Thrun holds a Ph.D. in computer science and [|statistics] from [|University of Bonn] in 1995 on the topic of //Explanation-Based Neural Network Learning// under advisors Armin Cremers and Tom Mitchell from Carnegie Mellon University, where Thrun continued his career as research computer scientist in the area of Machine Learning and [|Robotics]. || toc =NeuroChess= Sebastian Thrun applied [|explanation-based] neural networks (EBNN) to computer chess. His research chess program NeuroChess took its search algorithm from GNU Chess and its evaluation was based on the neural network.
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=Online Education= IIn 2011, along with Peter Norvig, Sebastian Thrun co-teached an online AI class initially through Stanford University, for which 160,000 students registered and 23,000 completed. As an outgrowth of free computer science classes, Thrun founded the for-profit educational organization [|Udacity].

=Selected Publications=

1992 ...

 * Sebastian Thrun (**1992**). //Backpropagation und Neurocontrol//. Master's thesis, [|University of Bonn] (German), [|zipped ps]
 * Sebastian Thrun, Tom Mitchell (**1993**). //Integrating Inductive Neural Network Learning and Explanation-Based Learning//. IJCAI 1993, [|zipped ps]
 * Sebastian Thrun (**1994**). //Neural Network Learning in the Domain of Chess//. Machines That Learn, [|Snowbird], Extended abstract

1995 ...

 * Sebastian Thrun (**1995**). //Explanation-Based Neural Network Learning - A Lifelong Learning Approach//. Ph.D. thesis, [|University of Bonn], advisors Armin Cremers and Tom Mitchell
 * Sebastian Thrun (**1995**). //[|Learning to Play the Game of Chess]//. in Gerald Tesauro, [|David S. Touretzky], [|Todd K. Leen] (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, [|MIT Press]
 * Sebastian Thrun (**1995**). //Is Learning The n-th Thing Any Easier Than Learning The First?// [|NIPS 1995]
 * Sebastian Thrun (**1996**). //[|Explanation-Based Neural Network Learning: A Lifelong Learning Approach]//. [|Kluwer Academic Publishers]
 * Sebastian Thrun (**1999**). //Monte Carlo POMDPs//. [|NIPS 1999]

2000 ...

 * Sebastian Thrun, Michael L. Littman (**2000**). //A Review of Reinforcement Learning//. [|AI Magazine, Vol. 21], No. 1, [|pdf]
 * Sebastian Thrun (**2000**). //Probabilistic Algorithms in Robotics//. [|AI Magazine, Vol. 21], No. 4
 * Sebastian Thrun (**2002**). //Probabilistic Robotics//. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 3
 * Joelle Pineau, Geoffrey Gordon, Sebastian Thrun (**2003**). //Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs//. IJCAI, [|pdf]
 * Sebastian Thrun (**2004**). //Toward a Framework for Human-Robot Interaction//. [|Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 19], Nos. 1-2

2005 ...

 * Sebastian Thrun (**2005**). //175 Miles Through the Desert//. [|KI 2005]
 * Sebastian Thrun (**2006**). //Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge: A Robot Race through the Mojave Desert//. [|ASE 2006]
 * Sebastian Thrun (**2006**). //A Personal Account of the Development of Stanley, the Robot That Won the DARPA Grand Challenge//. [|AI Magazine, Vol. 27], No. 4
 * Sebastian Thrun (**2007**). //Why we compete in DARPA's Urban Challenge autonomous robot race//. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 50, No. 10
 * Sebastian Thrun (**2008**). //Simultaneous Localization and Mapping//. [|Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping 2008]

2010 ...

 * Sebastian Thrun (**2010**). //Photographing the world ground up//. [|GIS 2010]: 2
 * Sebastian Thrun (**2010**). //Toward robotic cars//. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 53, No. 4

=External Links= > media type="youtube" key="uNNSRPX-YAk"
 * [|Sebastian Thrun's Homepage]
 * [|Sebastian Thrun from Wikipedia]
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Sebastian Thrun]
 * [|Google X Founder Sebastian Thrun Has Left His Role As Google VP And Fellow] by [|Ingrid Lunden], [|TechCrunch], September 23, 2014
 * [|Sebastian Thrun im Gespräch über seine Online-Uni Udacity], [|Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung], January 11, 2015 (German)
 * [|Intro to Artificial Intelligence Course and Training Online - Udacity]
 * Reflections on [|online education]: [|Udacity's] Sebastian Thrun, May 2013, [|YouTube] Video

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