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[[FILE:Sebastian Thrun World Economic Forum 2013.jpg|border|right|thumb| Sebastian Thrun <ref>Sebastian Thrun, [[Stanford University]], talks during the interactive session '[https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/sets/72157632586909648 Connected Transportation: Hype or Reality]' at the Annual Meeting 2013 of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum World Economic Forum] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davos Davos], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland Switzerland], January 23, 2013. Copyright by [https://www.flickr.com/people/15237218@N00 World Economic Forum]. swiss-image.ch/Photo [http://www.maz.ch/produktionen/foto-arbeit/pressefotografie-2007-2008/ Urs Jaudas], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Sebastian Thrun''',<br/>
an German computer scientits, robotics developer, research professor at [[Stanford University]], and CEO of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity Udacity]. Before he worked at [[Google|Google Inc.]], where he co-developed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View Google Street View] - and founded [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_X Google X], where he worked on the development of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car Google driverless car] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun Sebastian Thrun from Wikipedia]</ref>. Sebastian Thrun holds a Ph.D. in computer science and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics statistics] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bonn University of Bonn] in 1995 on the topic of ''Explanation-Based Neural Network Learning'' supervised by [[Mathematician#ABCremers|Armin Cremers]] and [[Tom Mitchell]] from [[Carnegie Mellon University]], where Thrun continued his career as research computer scientist in the area of [[Learning|Machine Learning]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics Robotics].
=NeuroChess=
Sebastian Thrun applied [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanation-based_learning explanation-based] [[Neural Networks|neural networks]] (EBNN) to computer chess. His research chess program [[NeuroChess]] took its [[Search|search algorithm]] from [[GNU Chess]] and its [[Evaluation|evaluation]] was based on the neural network <ref>[http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/neurochess.html Sebastian Thrun’s NeuroChess] from [http://satirist.org/learn-game/ Machine Learning in Games] by [[Jay Scott]], September 2000</ref> <ref>[[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1995'''). ''[http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/thrun.nips7.neuro-chess.html Learning to Play the Game of Chess]''. in [[Gerald Tesauro]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Touretzky David S. Touretzky], [http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/todd-k-leen Todd K. Leen] (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]</ref>.
=Online Education=
IIn 2011, along with [[Peter Norvig]], Sebastian Thrun co-teached an online [[Artificial Intelligence#UdacityAICourse|AI class]] initially through [[Stanford University]], for which 160,000 students registered and 23,000 completed <ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/05/desktop-degree-stanford-university-naughton Welcome to the desktop degree…] by [http://www.theguardian.com/profile/johnnaughton John Naughton], February 05, 2012, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian The Guardian]</ref> <ref>[http://fm.schmoller.net/2012/01/sebastian-thruns-reflection-on-the-ai-course.html Fortnightly Mailing: Taking the red pill: Sebastian Thrun's candid reflection on the AI course]</ref> <ref>[https://www.udacity.com/course/cs271 Intro to Artificial Intelligence Course and Training Online - Udacity]</ref>. As an outgrowth of free computer science classes, Thrun founded the for-profit educational organization [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity Udacity] <ref>[https://www.udacity.com/ Advance Your Career Through Project-Based Online Classes - Udacity]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://robots.stanford.edu/papers.html Sebastian's Publications]</ref> <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/t/Thrun:Sebastian dblp: Sebastian Thrun]</ref>
==1992 ...==
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1992'''). ''Backpropagation und Neurocontrol''. Master's thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bonn University of Bonn] (German), [http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/thrun.diplom_in_german.ps.gz zipped ps]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]], [[Tom Mitchell]] ('''1993'''). ''Integrating Inductive Neural Network Learning and Explanation-Based Learning''. [[Conferences#IJCAI1993|IJCAI 1993]], [http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/thrun.EBNN_ijcai93.ps.gz zipped ps]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1994'''). ''Neural Network Learning in the Domain of Chess''. Machines That Learn, [http://snowbird.djvuzone.org/ Snowbird], Extended abstract
==1995 ...==
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1995'''). ''Explanation-Based Neural Network Learning - A Lifelong Learning Approach''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bonn University of Bonn], advisors [[Mathematician#ABCremers|Armin Cremers]] and [[Tom Mitchell]]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1995'''). ''[http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/thrun.nips7.neuro-chess.html Learning to Play the Game of Chess]''. in [[Gerald Tesauro]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Touretzky David S. Touretzky], [http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/todd-k-leen Todd K. Leen] (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1995'''). ''Is Learning The n-th Thing Any Easier Than Learning The First?'' [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/nips/nips1995.html#Thrun95 NIPS 1995]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1996'''). ''[http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/thrun.book.html Explanation-Based Neural Network Learning: A Lifelong Learning Approach]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolters_Kluwer Kluwer Academic Publishers]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1999'''). ''Monte Carlo POMDPs''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/nips/nips1999.html#Thrun99 NIPS 1999] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_observable_Markov_decision_process Partially observable Markov decision process - Wikipedia]</ref>
==2000 ...==
* [[Sebastian Thrun]], [[Michael L. Littman]] ('''2000'''). ''A Review of Reinforcement Learning''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/aim/aim21.html#ThrunL00 AI Magazine, Vol. 21], No. 1, [http://www.aistudy.com/paper/aaai_journal/AIMag21-01-001.pdf pdf]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2000'''). ''Probabilistic Algorithms in Robotics''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/aim/aim21.html#Thrun00 AI Magazine, Vol. 21], No. 4
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2002'''). ''Probabilistic Robotics''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 45, No. 3
* [[Joelle Pineau]], [[Geoffrey Gordon]], [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2003'''). ''Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs''. [[Conferences#IJCAI2003|IJCAI]], [http://www.fore.robot.cc/papers/Pineau03a.pdf pdf]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2004'''). ''Toward a Framework for Human-Robot Interaction''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/hhci/hhci19.html#Thrun04 Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 19], Nos. 1-2
==2005 ...==
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2005'''). ''175 Miles Through the Desert''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ki/ki2005.html#Thrun05 KI 2005]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2006'''). ''Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge: A Robot Race through the Mojave Desert''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/kbse/ase2006.html#Thrun06 ASE 2006]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2006'''). ''A Personal Account of the Development of Stanley, the Robot That Won the DARPA Grand Challenge''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/aim/aim27.html#Thrun06 AI Magazine, Vol. 27], No. 4 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge DARPA Grand Challenge - Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_%28vehicle%29 Stanley (vehicle) from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2007'''). ''Why we compete in DARPA's Urban Challenge autonomous robot race''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 50, No. 10
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2008'''). ''Simultaneous Localization and Mapping''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/series/star/star38.html#Thrun08 Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping 2008]
==2010 ...==
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2010'''). ''Photographing the world ground up''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/gis/gis2010.html#Thrun10 GIS 2010]: 2
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2010'''). ''Toward robotic cars''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 53, No. 4
=External Links=
* [http://robots.stanford.edu/ Sebastian Thrun's Homepage]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun Sebastian Thrun from Wikipedia]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=100193 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Sebastian Thrun]
* [https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/google-x-founder-sebastian-thrun-has-left-his-role-as-google-vp-and-fellow/ Google X Founder Sebastian Thrun Has Left His Role As Google VP And Fellow] by [http://techcrunch.com/author/ingrid-lunden/ Ingrid Lunden], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechCrunch TechCrunch], September 23, 2014
* [https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2018-02/sebastian-thrun-digitalisierung-udacity-google-glass-interview Sebastian Thrun: "Amerikaner durchlaufen sieben Karrieren im Leben"], interview by [https://www.zeit.de/autoren/Z/Zacharias_Zacharakis/index.xml Zacharias Zacharakis], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Zeit Zeit Online], February 06, 2018 (German)
* Reflections on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology online education]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity Udacity's] Sebastian Thrun, May 2013, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNNSRPX-YAk|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
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[[FILE:Sebastian Thrun World Economic Forum 2013.jpg|border|right|thumb| Sebastian Thrun <ref>Sebastian Thrun, [[Stanford University]], talks during the interactive session '[https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/sets/72157632586909648 Connected Transportation: Hype or Reality]' at the Annual Meeting 2013 of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum World Economic Forum] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davos Davos], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland Switzerland], January 23, 2013. Copyright by [https://www.flickr.com/people/15237218@N00 World Economic Forum]. swiss-image.ch/Photo [http://www.maz.ch/produktionen/foto-arbeit/pressefotografie-2007-2008/ Urs Jaudas], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Sebastian Thrun''',<br/>
an German computer scientits, robotics developer, research professor at [[Stanford University]], and CEO of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity Udacity]. Before he worked at [[Google|Google Inc.]], where he co-developed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View Google Street View] - and founded [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_X Google X], where he worked on the development of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car Google driverless car] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun Sebastian Thrun from Wikipedia]</ref>. Sebastian Thrun holds a Ph.D. in computer science and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics statistics] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bonn University of Bonn] in 1995 on the topic of ''Explanation-Based Neural Network Learning'' supervised by [[Mathematician#ABCremers|Armin Cremers]] and [[Tom Mitchell]] from [[Carnegie Mellon University]], where Thrun continued his career as research computer scientist in the area of [[Learning|Machine Learning]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics Robotics].
=NeuroChess=
Sebastian Thrun applied [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanation-based_learning explanation-based] [[Neural Networks|neural networks]] (EBNN) to computer chess. His research chess program [[NeuroChess]] took its [[Search|search algorithm]] from [[GNU Chess]] and its [[Evaluation|evaluation]] was based on the neural network <ref>[http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/neurochess.html Sebastian Thrun’s NeuroChess] from [http://satirist.org/learn-game/ Machine Learning in Games] by [[Jay Scott]], September 2000</ref> <ref>[[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1995'''). ''[http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/thrun.nips7.neuro-chess.html Learning to Play the Game of Chess]''. in [[Gerald Tesauro]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Touretzky David S. Touretzky], [http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/todd-k-leen Todd K. Leen] (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]</ref>.
=Online Education=
IIn 2011, along with [[Peter Norvig]], Sebastian Thrun co-teached an online [[Artificial Intelligence#UdacityAICourse|AI class]] initially through [[Stanford University]], for which 160,000 students registered and 23,000 completed <ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/05/desktop-degree-stanford-university-naughton Welcome to the desktop degree…] by [http://www.theguardian.com/profile/johnnaughton John Naughton], February 05, 2012, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian The Guardian]</ref> <ref>[http://fm.schmoller.net/2012/01/sebastian-thruns-reflection-on-the-ai-course.html Fortnightly Mailing: Taking the red pill: Sebastian Thrun's candid reflection on the AI course]</ref> <ref>[https://www.udacity.com/course/cs271 Intro to Artificial Intelligence Course and Training Online - Udacity]</ref>. As an outgrowth of free computer science classes, Thrun founded the for-profit educational organization [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity Udacity] <ref>[https://www.udacity.com/ Advance Your Career Through Project-Based Online Classes - Udacity]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://robots.stanford.edu/papers.html Sebastian's Publications]</ref> <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/t/Thrun:Sebastian dblp: Sebastian Thrun]</ref>
==1992 ...==
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1992'''). ''Backpropagation und Neurocontrol''. Master's thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bonn University of Bonn] (German), [http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/thrun.diplom_in_german.ps.gz zipped ps]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]], [[Tom Mitchell]] ('''1993'''). ''Integrating Inductive Neural Network Learning and Explanation-Based Learning''. [[Conferences#IJCAI1993|IJCAI 1993]], [http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/thrun.EBNN_ijcai93.ps.gz zipped ps]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1994'''). ''Neural Network Learning in the Domain of Chess''. Machines That Learn, [http://snowbird.djvuzone.org/ Snowbird], Extended abstract
==1995 ...==
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1995'''). ''Explanation-Based Neural Network Learning - A Lifelong Learning Approach''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bonn University of Bonn], advisors [[Mathematician#ABCremers|Armin Cremers]] and [[Tom Mitchell]]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1995'''). ''[http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/thrun.nips7.neuro-chess.html Learning to Play the Game of Chess]''. in [[Gerald Tesauro]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Touretzky David S. Touretzky], [http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/todd-k-leen Todd K. Leen] (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1995'''). ''Is Learning The n-th Thing Any Easier Than Learning The First?'' [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/nips/nips1995.html#Thrun95 NIPS 1995]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1996'''). ''[http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/thrun.book.html Explanation-Based Neural Network Learning: A Lifelong Learning Approach]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolters_Kluwer Kluwer Academic Publishers]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''1999'''). ''Monte Carlo POMDPs''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/nips/nips1999.html#Thrun99 NIPS 1999] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_observable_Markov_decision_process Partially observable Markov decision process - Wikipedia]</ref>
==2000 ...==
* [[Sebastian Thrun]], [[Michael L. Littman]] ('''2000'''). ''A Review of Reinforcement Learning''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/aim/aim21.html#ThrunL00 AI Magazine, Vol. 21], No. 1, [http://www.aistudy.com/paper/aaai_journal/AIMag21-01-001.pdf pdf]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2000'''). ''Probabilistic Algorithms in Robotics''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/aim/aim21.html#Thrun00 AI Magazine, Vol. 21], No. 4
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2002'''). ''Probabilistic Robotics''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 45, No. 3
* [[Joelle Pineau]], [[Geoffrey Gordon]], [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2003'''). ''Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs''. [[Conferences#IJCAI2003|IJCAI]], [http://www.fore.robot.cc/papers/Pineau03a.pdf pdf]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2004'''). ''Toward a Framework for Human-Robot Interaction''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/hhci/hhci19.html#Thrun04 Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 19], Nos. 1-2
==2005 ...==
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2005'''). ''175 Miles Through the Desert''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ki/ki2005.html#Thrun05 KI 2005]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2006'''). ''Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge: A Robot Race through the Mojave Desert''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/kbse/ase2006.html#Thrun06 ASE 2006]
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2006'''). ''A Personal Account of the Development of Stanley, the Robot That Won the DARPA Grand Challenge''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/aim/aim27.html#Thrun06 AI Magazine, Vol. 27], No. 4 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge DARPA Grand Challenge - Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_%28vehicle%29 Stanley (vehicle) from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2007'''). ''Why we compete in DARPA's Urban Challenge autonomous robot race''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 50, No. 10
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2008'''). ''Simultaneous Localization and Mapping''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/series/star/star38.html#Thrun08 Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping 2008]
==2010 ...==
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2010'''). ''Photographing the world ground up''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/gis/gis2010.html#Thrun10 GIS 2010]: 2
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] ('''2010'''). ''Toward robotic cars''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 53, No. 4
=External Links=
* [http://robots.stanford.edu/ Sebastian Thrun's Homepage]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun Sebastian Thrun from Wikipedia]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=100193 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Sebastian Thrun]
* [https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/google-x-founder-sebastian-thrun-has-left-his-role-as-google-vp-and-fellow/ Google X Founder Sebastian Thrun Has Left His Role As Google VP And Fellow] by [http://techcrunch.com/author/ingrid-lunden/ Ingrid Lunden], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechCrunch TechCrunch], September 23, 2014
* [https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2018-02/sebastian-thrun-digitalisierung-udacity-google-glass-interview Sebastian Thrun: "Amerikaner durchlaufen sieben Karrieren im Leben"], interview by [https://www.zeit.de/autoren/Z/Zacharias_Zacharakis/index.xml Zacharias Zacharakis], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Zeit Zeit Online], February 06, 2018 (German)
* Reflections on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology online education]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity Udacity's] Sebastian Thrun, May 2013, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNNSRPX-YAk|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
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